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

At the First Congregational church
yesterday morning Rev Clarence T..
Brown held d memorial service and
preached a sermon in memory Of the
soldiers and sailors who fell in the
Standardization war complying
most heartily with q request from the
national committee which has in charge
the erection of a monument in honor Of
the heroes.
Members Of the Grand Army Of the
Republic and Wornan's Relief corps
were present, and the great audience
listened with feeling and sympathy to
the impressive discourse. At the close
the audience united in singing Amer
lea
The text: Thou shalt remember all
y t5e way which the Lord thy God led
Vince. ''-Deut. viii, 2.
1 Rev. Brown spoke as follows:
Measured by those who fell in other
wars not many gave their lives in this
last conflict but measured by mothers
tears, measured by the sorrows of those
around the desolate hearth fires, meas
ured by the throbbing hearts of those
who watched and waited for the return
of the ones they loved, there were many
who fell in this last short war Of ours.
1t is a grateful task to rear a monu-
ment to them, and l think ii will also
be some satisfaction to the mothers,
fathers, wives and lovers of those who
fell, to think that they are remembered
in thousaDds Of churches today over
all the breadth of the land; for the fu-
neral services that were held over those
who died in Cuba were very pathetic
indeed
Let US recall for a moment some of
the scenes under the southern skies
where those memorial services were
held. 1t was not the fault of the SOL
der boys if any man was buried with
out a funeral service. Chaplain Odell
tells an interesting story of a young
soldier who died on the way to the
hospital He died in the wagon; no
chaplain was there; they found it ne
cessary to bury him by the roadside. A
detachment Of six fired a salute and
sang. Nearer, My God, to Thee" They
resumed their sad journey to the hos
pital, and when they arrived they
asked the chaplain TO go back and look
at the grave and see if 1t was all
right and said they would gladly do
it over il it had not been done right
So the soldier heart Graves for his fell
low-soldier the sacred honor of a me-
mortal service. And l suppose there
are some lying in Cuban soil today over
whom no funeral words were pro-
nounced-
Let us not forget the fearful price
which our fellows have paid within
tH6se last few months. No tongue or
Yen> or brush can tell the horrors of the
battlefield after the battle is over.
So let US today remember with graft
tude and thoughtful appreciation the
awful sacrifice which our brothers and
fathers have made for their country S
cause the call of their flag and the
call of their God. Awful as war is, we
Il Il, he 600 hot
many of the victories of justice and
righteousness in the worlds history
have been won and decided on great
battlefields. I wish il were not so.
feel that we have not touched the high
ideal that Christ set for the world so
long as that remains true. The only
possible justification for war is to avoid
something worse than war, and ito
light for peace" But it is true, IN
doubtedly, that many of the great ques-
tons that determined largely the des-
tiny of the world have been settled on
battlefelds.
You have read in your school books
again and again the story of Marathon,
and YOU know that il was there Europe
was made Greek instead of Asiatic.
You have read the story of Naseby
and Dunbar, and you have felt that
those battles made England free, and
not despotic. You have read of Sara
toga and Yorktown, and you have felt
that they made this continent free and
American and not British and mon
archial. You have read the story of
Gettysburg and you cannot ESCAPE the
conviction that there, perhaps, more
than at any other point, the destiny
of our own, free land was determined.
And Manila and Santiago viii take
rank beside these historic names.
I'VE have hearo., and all the world
,1TTfs he
mqrning in the far-Otf Orient and light
eS In the hazy waters Of Manila with
s1ah 4 sunrise as they had never seen
before.
That lurid sunrise. AGAINST its dark
background, signified, not simply a vic
tory over the Spanish fleet and the
Spanish forces, but was one more vic
tory won for the children of liberty,
for the cause of God and humanity.
And it remains for US, for you, young
men and women OF free, dear, Chris
tan America-it remains for you, by
all the ministries of education and
Christianity, to fulfill the pledge which
Dewey made in that early morning of
q better day to dawn over the dark
islands of the sea. | believe it was
the beginning of q better day stil in
our own civilization. For l believe,
with the dear old battle hymn, that
God Gees Marching on"
It was touching and beautiful sight
on the goth Of last May, when, down
our streets there marched the gray
bearded veteran MS, struggling and few,
with the volunteers following close be-
hind-seeing them off to the wars. It
was a very significant procession, the
old veterans and the boys; it was typi-
cal of all the deep meaning of the
Spanish-Afnerican war. The heroes. of
1898 had footprints in which to follow,
they had clear signal calls from out
the celestial blue to follow: they had
e long line of noble presidents; they
were to follow in the path made by
the Pilgrim fathers, by way of Valley
Forge and yorktown, and Saratoga
and Gettysburg, up to Manila and San
Juan hill.
Dear young friends, I beg you to be-
Heve that the guiding stars of our
fathers and brothers have been Chris
tkan stars; for our pilgrim fathers
Came across the stormy seas following
the beacon OF liberty; our revolutionary
fathers went through their blood stain
ed conflict, with the beacon of lib
erty before their eager eyes, and when
our own fathers were led down the
valley OF the shadow of civil conflict,
God bound to the destiny of the Union
the destiny of the black man, and he
would not let so many lives be Sacri-
feed without bringing out from the
dread ordeal four million slaves set
free.
In this splendid line have our broth
ers ia these last few months taken
their place, and their names are written