Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-09
A NATIONS TRIBUTE


| Continued from First Page)
United States navy; Col Green Clay Good
loe, United States marine corps; Maj. Johr
8. Loud. United States army, and Capt
Horace Noble, United States volunteers.
The G. A R. was represented by Calvin
Farnsworth. George H. Slabaugh. B. F
| Chase. ]. H. Dawes. T. S. Hopkins, s. f
| Faunce. Nathan Bickford and John Nc.
| Elroy.
| Rev. DIR. STRIKERS Sermon.
The Presbyterian burial service was read
| by Rev. Teunis Hamln, pastor of the
church, and President H. NJ. W. stryker OF
| Hamilton College then arose to deliver the
| oraticn.
| DR.. Stryker said in part:
"Over the width of the earth soldier S
household has brought its warrior home.
The dust that the ration gathers to its
| guarding is that of common man. We
| are met to celebrate and to mourn him.
| But while we recall the record so COM
| pact with manliness, and which the white
| blossom of modesty crowns wtthal, while
We recite the story of one who personified
| the best American traditions, first this
| day do We regard her sorrow who treads
| that solemn aisle of pain the sanctity
| of whose shadows are accessible only to
| her God. And with her, We remember
| too, for his true sake who begat them,
| these four dear children-daughters of
| the army, wards of the people, and son
| whose best possession shall ever be his
| fathers sword. Orphaned Of him indeed
| his children are, but endowed too with
| the immutable heritage Of gallant name.
| 1t is an estate which with all that appro-
priately pertains to it this land of pure
domestic love will thoughtfully and thank
| fully administer.
" blessed be the God and Father of our
| Lord Jesus Christ. the Father of mercies
| and God of all comfort; who comforteth
| US in all our afflictioD. that we may be
able to comfort them that are in any at
1 fiction through the comfort wherewith we
| ourselves are conforted of God
| Hlther We have come-the peoples
| chosen head, and all authorities else from
their high several sessions-to pay our
| poor but tender aims Of love to an I'M
| blemished memory, to thank Him who
| is our dwelling place In all generations.
that the stout tree of liberty still yields
| such manner Of fruitage, and to pledge
ourselves. considering the issue of the lives
| of renowned dead, to initiate their I'M
blenching and unblighted faith
| Station is secondary, humanity is pri-
| mary. And, whatever else any IS, today
| we all only men and women, brothers
| and sisters, lifting children wet
| faces toward the consultations of God. The
| stars of the spangled flag, covering now
| this shape of its noble warden, shine null
| tplied upon the dews of grief But with
| d solemn joy, it beseems you, his comrades
| CT the army, to give thanks for the life
| whose end must (after this parenthesis of
| difficult farewells) be viewed, not as a ca
| lamity, but as a conquest Men unapt to
| weep are smitten by the pathos of that
| courage We commemorate-courage, most
| touching of all human graces; but let them
| also smile with exalted hope as they lay
upon this soldiers sepulchre the chaplets of
| their homage.
! Without Fear, without ReprOach.
Dr. Stryker eulogized Gen. Lawtons mil
itary career, and went on to say:
This better Plantaganet, this latest
Bayard without fear and without re-
proach.' this modern Philippe Sydney,
| whose life also was poetry put into ac-
ton has shown once more of what d
stuff is incorrigible manhood-in what SUBJ
| stance root the memories that last.
For true poet (and so proven) is one
| who has written at least some things of
| which no poet that ever lived could have
been ashamed, would gladly have owned;
| and true man is admitted to the fellow
| ship of heroes by the equality and peer
age of his supreme deeds. Here was one
whom Raleigh, Gustavus Adolphus, Will
| lam Of Orange, Winklereid, Cambronne,
| Garibaldi would know at sight. He was
of that time-enduring breed which has
| made ASincourt and Naseby and Quebec
comrade to the Marylanders who guard
ed the retreat at Long Island, to the men
who passed the Delaware, who served
the guns of PIeasanton, who soaked the
sod of the Peach Orchard, who ran sing
ing through the tide at Manila, who held
| Guantanamo. The soul was in him of
| those who did business in great waters
with Paul Jones and Lawrence and TruX-
ton and Worden and Bagley-of all the
line who yet with and which shall
not be diminished though all the seas run
red. lie was in the spiritual loins of Jo-
| seph Warren and of Herkmer. He knew
| the secret and has saluted the souls of
| Mansfield and Sedgwick and Reynolds and
Mcpherson and Phil Kearney and Custer!
Let 1t be said, and let 1t be said here,
that none Of us is Of those who walk back
ward into the future and translate the
present upside down! A tumid and carp
ing pessimism lives only in the pluper-
feet, but good faith lives in the future
perfect. The one is Subjunctive. the other
is indicative. Nay, duty is in the impera-
tive and unconditional mood!
| When, in the name Of mankind, and
| that peace might be real, we undertook
in 1898 to cleanse the seas, We affirmed
q principle and made a precedent that l,
for one hold to have written the most
honorable leaf in all our history. But all
that has been since was corrolary to that.
No special pleading of professional NAL
contents with whom wisdom will not die
no a priori abstraction, can unsay wha1
this dead soldiers zeal said for America
Rather does such a death enjoin upon our
purpose and performance such ends as
shall vindicate us from cowardly indif-
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ever duty and however unexpected or COM
plex-enjoin US to regard and to teach lib
erty's authority.
I'VE do not welcome war, We deplore it
but more deplorable were craven vacii-
| lation toward q riddle which must have
| room for its solution. For that rooms
sake, and for the peace it shall secure at
last reverently invoke upon our arms
the favor of the Lord of Hosts! and
though we walk through the valley of the
shadow of death, We will fear no evil
In the name of our God will we set up
our banners.
Summons Comes.
The Arch-Leader of the migrations Of
men, the Counsellor whose ways are
higher than our ways summons US to an
imperial participation in the affairs of the
round world-not for conquest and com
merce sake, but for Christ's. who is the
resurrection and the life for peoples too
| He summons US from an isolated ever
though continental seifshness. like thai
in which the palaces of self-contente6
| Babylon became the abode of owls anG
| SatyrS-SummonS US, though we NAV no,