The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-29
The Rev. Mr.. AylesWorth
breaches To Zabriskie
Post G.. A. R.
FUTURE FULL OF PROMISE
Memorial Services Held In
Many Churches Last
Night.

mortal Day sermon to ZaDrlskle fosl' VI.
A. R. His subject was: 'God Rules over
War" He said
..Our Revolutionary War gave this con-
tinent over to new departures in govern
ment. breaking with the traditionSo OF botn
church and State and inaugurating a new
departure in each such as has dazzieo the
world by their triumphs and led 10
national prosperity that outranks all MIS-
tory
.sThe next momentous hour in the his
tory of this republic was A. M, Aprll Il
1861. when Edmund Ruffin pulled the lam
yard that fiered the first gun on Fort
Sumpter. The Rebellion gave us freed
race of three million of people, and
blotted out slavery forever on the West
ern Hemisphere. 1t gave us united
nation in the place of a rope of SAND.
The Eternal designed that America should
be free from the traditions and burdens
of the older nations. This was to be
government of the people, for the people
and by the people; one that would rend IN
twain the veil of former government ana
disclose the rock of the nations covenant
four square, and on each corner stone
of freedom: First, free press: second, free
schools: third. free pulpit; fourth, free
speech Despotism was dazed in the hght
of such progress.
TT was the consciousness of the Divine
Providence in the affairs of this nation
even in the clash of battle, that led our
Commander Phillip, of the ship Texas
after Santiagos memorable battle, to say,
as he stood on the deck, the guns still
smoking: 1 want TO make public acknoWl-
edgment here that believe in God the
Father Almighty. 1 want all you officers
and men to lift your hats and from your
hearts offer silent thanks to the AL
mighty
I'VE have something to thank the vet
Grams for; those who survive the years of
strife are as brave as those who fell.
They stood at the side of their comrades
as the fatal missile sought them out, ex-
pecting that the next ball would be theirs
Yet there are those today who are opposed
to granting pensions to the heroic men
who thus served their country, and in that
service received wounds that they carry
to this day; shedding their blood, sur
rendering their limbs. and laying their
health upon their country's altar, they
became living sacrifice to patriotism.
So far as 1 am aware these modern
patriots who guard the treasury with such
care are not the men who carried the
enemy or crossed swords with the foe.
The actual soldiers of the blue or grey
were chivalrous men. The Modern
Guard were the soldiers that stayed at
home or found it convenient to visit
Canada. What would one of them take
for a limb or an eye, or long years of
shattered health? That little pittance
that the Pension Office can extend? Not
they. These men were the flower of the
American manhood, representing all
classes and all conditions.
It took America to demonstrate to the
world that 10000 men could be mustered
into service in the short space of fifteen
hours. Such was the acknowledged
prowess of these men that Napoleon the
III did not dare to trifle with it in the
interests of his family in Mexico. England
at the opening of the strife spurned the
Federal cause, but later was willing to
arbtrate the Alabama Claims" Then
Germany followed in the Samoan diff
Guilty and since Manila and Santiago the
civilized world has been glad to follow
in the wake of the leaders.
1T was the American soldier who
taught the armies of the world how to
receive a vanquished foe. 1t was at the
Rapidan that a new chapter in the feat
of arms was recorded, on the occasion
of the surrender of the rebel forces. 1t
is said that they approached to give up
their arms the federal army presented
arms and the bands played Home Sweet
Home" In the evening when. the shao-
dows were lepgthening, the federal bands
struck up Hail Columbia" and from
across the river came the strains of
ssDixie', as only the rebels could play it.
Then as by common impulse, both
4 began to play Home Sweet Home" The
armies of the blue and grey caught up
the tender strains, and in the thought of
glad reunion with dear ones left at home,
all enmity was forgotten and the foes of
yesterday were again frlends ana Ieiiow
countrymen.
that has just been concluded was the
first of its kind that the world ever
witnessed. A strong nation bearing the
burdens of subject race, that has en-
dured the indigpities Of the most bar
barous nation that calls itself civilized,
and freeing it from the thraldom that has
sent hundreds of thousands to untimely
graves
Peace is in the air where our banners
float in the far East, soon the political
ca.bal will cease its activities, and the
islands of the sea will be glad.
.sThe whole civilized world mas It's
glasses turned on the peace convention at
The Hague. The influences that may now
from 1t no man can tell and the results,
how for reaching only history can record
The sentiment That war should pc no
more is abroad among the nations OF 1ne
earth In this respect the millennium IS
dawning upon the eastern hills and we
have caught its glow
afsood and great as this nation IS there
are other ba tiles to. be fought ana otner
evils to be overcome. The free baliot IS
assailed in various parts of our country
by purchasing votes by false counts, py
repeaters, by repression. When we toucn
the ballotbox we trifie with the natloh
heart. ,r
1.-THE free school has been assaiied. Inc
free ballot is of no use unless we nave lh-
; telligent voters to use it, Let the hand
be palsied that would touch the Amer-
can free school.
a!rree liquor? That must not be. The
freeballot and an honest count and an
infelligent voter are all useless If that
citizen is a drunken one. In the popula-
ron of seventy million people we have
Aover two million drinkers, over 900
drunkards. 10000 pass into drunkards
Graves every year, while $9c9,000,000 are
fairen from the legitimate channels of in
d1,sfrv and employed in prostituting the
nafion Ye men who fought SO nobly for
s t5e freedom OF the brother in black fall
ii and march to the liberation Of these
IN white u -,
s-ssYou were men strong enough 70 con-
,,,er fhe rebellion In the south land. now
rrann,,er the rebellion that is Within Re-
beilious hearts and habits; sin and satan