The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-28

After the black men and the white.
men had charged up San Juan hill.
volunteers We're called for to go down
to Siboney down to the fever hospital
where death invisible strikes at you
with his fangS every minute. Very
hard and perilous was the service re-.
quested, but they hoped to get twelve
men to go. An officer stood before them
and explained the Situation--remembe
it was after the fight, and many were
half sick from lying out in the cold at
night and under the burning glare of
the sun by day, many scarcely able to
walk; but when he explained the call
that was made to wait on the yellow
fever patients, to care for them, to
bury thew when they were dead, not
only did twelve men volunteer, but
every man in the regiment who was
able to stand stepped forward and vol
unteered to stagger his way down from
San Juan to Siboney to serve in the
yellow fever hospitals. You could not
place a harder, sterner test upon devo-
ton than that. Let US never forget it
was men with black skins who stood
up in the light among the worlds he
roes, and as they marched down from
San Juan to Siboney they marched up
long way into the heights of history.
Now, this memorial day let us not
forget also the women, the trained
nurses, who went into these fever hos
pitfalls, and many of them gave their
lives for their countrymen. MY coup
trymen,'' said our beloved president,
the currents of destiny flow through
the hearts of the people," and in our
own dear America who shall say
Nay?
Some one has said that the ideals of
men are the realities of God. One of
those ideals is love of country. Love
of home and love of country are two
of the shining ideals in the hearts of
men, which forever bear witness to the
realities of God Love of home love
of country, love of liberty, love of God,
love of the children of men. Napoleon,
1 believe is credited with the remark
that nations are governed by magma
ton, and in a sense far Lruer than ever
he realized, [ suppose, he spoke truth.
Christianity consists in large part in
being able to put yourself in another's
place, to rejoice with those who re-
ioice and weep with those who weep.
What is that but Imagination? 1.-THE
currents Of destiny flow through the
hearts Of the people" What heroes the
golden rule has made! What heroes
the cross of Jesus Christ has madei
There are none like them in the world
from the early bands of those who
went to the prisons when they knew it
would cost them their lives, down
through the centuries when patiently
they endured great prosecutions. What
splendid heroes the cross has made.
Her Savonarolas and her Luthers her
Cromwells and her Leslies, and all the
splendid women crusaders in all their
reforms. Now right along these Splen-
did ranks our country is marching with
her armies championing the cause of
downtrodden and ignorant people. The
horizon has been greatly enlarged by
our late war.
Shall we keep the islands? If we do,
let us remember that our first claim
upon them is not that we have got the
strongest guns, but the strongest cause.
DUTY" said the president in this same
speech from which have before quot
ed, determines destiny" We have no
right under the cross of Jesus Christ
to an inch of territory except as duty
calls us there. We shall only justify
ourselves in the face of the world and
in the court of history, by following our
flag closely with the cross, following
our guns with schoolhouses and our
regiments with missionaries. Duty de-
termines destiny, and duty calls US
even as the man of Macedonia called to
the early apostle Come over and help
u.s."
So I think it must be a comfort to
those who have lost dear ones in this
conflict to feel that the sacrifice was
worth while, that they have taken
their place in the great onward move
ment of the worlds civilization; that
they have been following as God has
been marching on, following the flag
made sacred by the glances Of so many
dying on the field of battle, a flag made
sacred by the quivering voices of the
wounded under it's folds, redolent with
the fragrance of the red flower of he
roism, splendid with the CLEANS of
light that shine through it's folds from
the glowing cross of liberty on Calvary.
And so God goes marching on, and the
currents of destiny flow through the
hearts of the people.
When Pericles was pronouncing his
Grafton over the Athenian dead, point
ing to the grass, he said: Their silence
is eloquent! These heroes ask US to go
away and live for the city for which
they died"
The graves of our heroes do not lie
under our eyes, most of them lie even
outside the dear soil of our own Amer
lea. They do not lie under our eyes.
except as we see with those finer eyes
of intelligence and sympathy, against
which there are no barriers There
those brave boys lie in the jungles of
Cuba and in the depths of the ocean,
but their souls go marching on and the
silence of their lips is eloquent. The
heroes lying there ask US to go forth
and live for the country for which they
died.