Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-05-31

perfect freedom; but secession from
the Kingdom of Heaven, self-willed
revolt against God, will land us in the
weakness and slavery of death.
And it is through a personality that
we realize this Kingdom of Heaven,
and enter into it. 1t is the Kingdom
of God, but a God with human heart,
and with human experience; and so
that glorious kingdom is Christ's king
dom. What Lincoln was to us as the
interpreter of the nation, and as our
leader into the true life of the nation;
that, in an infinitely higher degree, in
an unspeakable higher degree, is Christ
to us, as the interpreter and revealer
of the Heavenly Kingdom and as our
Leader into it's life. He whose ascen-
sion from earth we at this season com
memorate is the great Personality and
Power which fills and dominates the
unseen world, that realm of the etern-
al realities, that realm which is the seat
and source of all life; out of which we
have come, and back to which it is our
destiny to return. 1t is impossible to
separate between the Kingdom of
Heaven, and Christ, who is the Life
and Soul of that Kingdom. We can
not separate between loyalty to that
Heavenly Nation, and loyalty to Him
in whose character and life is realized
the fulness of the life of that King
dom.
And since there is such q striking
parallel between the cause of the
nation for which you fought, and the
cause of Christ; is it not reasonable to
infer that the same divine power has
inspired both. And ought not every
soldier of the nation to be also faith
ful soldier of Christ, as loyal to the
nation in Heaven as to the nation on
earth?
And if we prize union in the earthly
nation, should we not equally prize
union in the Heavenly nation? Does
not the same logic which points to the
unity of the nation, point also to the
unity of the Church? 1t would be
strange indeed if the same patriots
who fought so bravely that the nation
might not be rent asunder, should
view with complacency and approval
the spectacle of a Christendom split
into countless sects. But already the
conviction has taken deep hold upon
the hearts of Christian men of all de-
nominations, that our unhappy divis-
ions in the Church are a deplorable
evil; and [ have no doubt that the logic
of our political history has had its
marked influence in bringing US to see
that Church secession is as deplorable
an evil as is political secession. The
day has not yet come when unity can
be restored; but long step in that
direction has been taken, now that
Christian men everywhere recognize
the evils of division, and are praying
that Gas there is but one Body and
one Spirit, and one hope of our calling,
one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one
God and Father of us all; so we may
be all of one heart and of one soul,
united in one holy bond of truth and
peace, of faith and charity, and may
with one mind and one mouth glorify
God"
Yesterday the graves Of the patriotic
dead were strewn with fowers-com-
rades and committees being appointed
to visit all the cemeteries Of the county.
Thus closed another Memorial Day and
grateful Nation has again manifested
it's respect for the illustrious dead
The graves of nearly all in the silent
city, aside from those of the departed
soldiers, displayed tokens in profusion,
from the hands of loving friends who
visit not to forget their dead, and in
consequence of this elaborate manifes-
tation of keen memoriam the cemetery
never before presented SO beautiful an
appearance. dead, but not forgot
ten."
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would cast out demons, but it will cure
rheumatism, and hundreds bear testimony
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