Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1900-05-28

the days ana weeks OF anxiety ana
mental suffering such as no one could
imagine.
We should endeavor to ed ucate our
unconscious selves so that when they
act automatically, as it were, they
will act properly. And here is the
value of military training, whether
it be received in a school in time of
peace, or in the sterner school of war:
with the experience thus gained, under
certain circumstances the body re-
spends instantly to the call upon it,
with unfailing accuracy. In such a
school man becomes accustomed to
prompt and ready obedience, and he
becomes thus more fitted for the
work which he may be called upon to
do, no matter in what walk of life it
may lie.
And when only two short years
ago, almost as it were like thunder
clap from clear sky war was upon
us, there went through the length
and breadth of the land the summons
to the field and with it came the
prompt response of quarter of mill
ion of men, can we not see the tokens
of this same spirit of vision, leading
the people almost unwillingly to as
sumo the burdens which, | sincerely
believe Almighty God has put into
our hands, in order that by faithful
discharge of our duty the world may
be made the better for the existence
of the republic. If this great and
glorious free government is given for
us alone it would be contrary to all
that we read in the past history of
our race: we hold it as trust, but
we must administer that trust in wis
dom and honesty: not giving it too
soon into hands unqualified by lack of
training to use it, but patiently amid
much tribulation of misunderstanding
at home and in the islands of the sea,
we must lead those whose redemption
has been placed in our charge to the
wider and fuller freedom and liberty
to which generations of oppression
have made them total strangers.
The spirit of vision must come into
the life of each one of us here this al
ternoon, lest that life should perish.
We must not forget that just as
each soldier in a iSsgiment is an cs-
sential part of that regiment and of
the army of which the regiment is a
part, just as it is incumbent upon him
to do his duty to the very utmost, lest
the whole army and the cause for
which it is assembled suffer dctri-
mcnt, so it is the duty of every man
and woman born into the world to
act not simply with reference to HIM
self or herself alone. but with reference
to others for "we are members of one
another"
Never before in the history of the
world has there been such time of
mutual dependence of one class upon
another. Even the Vermont farmer
no longer lives within himself from
the products of his farm. Modern
commerce goes to the very ends of
the earth seeking articles of food and
clothing, articles of necessity and of
luxury, to satisfy the demands of the
people on this side Of the globe.
Ono one of us liveth unto himse IT,
We cannot live in the world and escape
responsibility, for as no one can live
without eXerting some influence, so we
are to be held responsible for that in
'luence. What we really are within
ourselves, we are in one way or another
showing outwardly. We must not de-
Jude ourselves with the idea that SO
long as we mean we'll we are not res
ponsible for our influence, that though
we may not attempt to influence an
other directly; that though we may
leave him alone, we are doing him no
injury.
Comrades of the Grand Army and of
the Spanish war: there is work for us
still to do in the world: we are entered
into a war in which there is no dis
charge, and the military experience
you have had should make you more
fit to do that work. There are bat
ties still to be fought, battles in our
own lives first; and then battles in
the city. the state, the country; bat
ties of the true against the false, of
right against wrong Of purity
against impurity, of virtue against
vice, of honesty against fraud, Of gen.
erosity against greed, of all things
lovely and of good report against those
that are Of momentary part, the
winning of which will tend to the re-
lease of souls long bound in the iron
cells of ignorance or the close locked
dungeons of circumstance to the
bringing in of the reign of righteous
ness and judgment and truth and
equity; it is a fight which can be
fought only in the fear of God, nay,