The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-05-30

connection with the pOllttcal prIncIple.
How appropriate is Memorial Sunday
and its gospel tendency. But the blend
ing of gospel truth and war memory,
MAS we'll executed by Rev D MeGormick,
In the NJ. e. church, Sunday morning.
The church was filled at eleven O'Clock.
NJ mbers of Lewis Post and the Woman 8
Relief Corps occupied front seats.
The select choir, Mrs. Inez Potter, Rev.
VIM. Westwood. 2. IL. Young, Mrs.
Harry Hubbard, Miss Nina NorvaI, Chas.
Incl, Roy Martin, with Mrs. Etr1ck at
the organ, opened the service with the
soul inspiring hymn:
AM a soldier Of the Cross
AID fGGTfr sbaT feaf ct the ae L2mn his
Or blush to speak His name2
Rev. j. NJ. Robinson followed with a
fervent prayer.
Rev. VIM. Hestwood read the 126th
Psalm.
Rev. d. Mccormick chose a text from
Exodus 12:lG, what mean ye by this ser
vice? And read Joshua 1871. Now
Joshua was old and stricken in years; and
the Lord said unto him. Thou art old
and stricken in years. and there remain
eth yet very much land to be possessed.
MIR. Mccormick spoke of the institution
of the Passover, and the warning given
by the Lord that he would smIte the first
born of the land of Egypt, and that as a
token Gods people should strike the lin
tel of the houses with the blood of the
passover, and they would escape Gods
Judgment upon the Egyptians Aud
hearsing these things in the ears of their
children would haya a tendency to keep
the flame of love for God and country
burning the affairs of their young
hearts.
If some one, a stranger, should come
in and see this company of old soldiers
and the flag, and should ask us why
mean ye by this service, we would say
Ehat wo had come in to pay our honor to
the old soldiers, who sacrificed their
lives for institutions we hold so dear.
We have abundant reasons for keeping
this day, said MIR. Mccormick. Other
nations have days set apart to commem-
-orate the lives of great men and the hero
&c dead. But no nation has so abundant
reason to celebrate anniversary days as
has this country-in the discovery of
America, Washfngton,s birthday, Inde-
pendence day, Abraham Lincoln's biz tn
day, the preservation of the Union-and
no day Is more sacred than Memorial
day, that time honored day, in all the his
tory of this country.
The patural instinct in the human
breast is to honor heroes. We are all
hero worshippers. The bravery of the
Greeks, Horatius at the Bridge, I4eonidas
at Thermopylae; of the Athenian, Militia
des' victory at Marathon over the Per-
slams, and the wars of the ancients-ii
these heroes of classic stories are thus
remembered, what shall say of the
victories of Grant, OF Shermaas of the
founder of your order, Logan, and of the
soldiers who were willing to shed theil
blood that the Union might be perpetu-
ated?
We are coming. Father Abraham, three hundred
From MississiEpi's winding stream, and from
We leave our plows and workshops, wives ant
With hearts too fun for utteranee. and but
We dare not look behind US, but steadfastly be
We are coming. Father Abraham. three hun
And there are others!
The presence of the Woman,s Relic
Corps this morning reminds us of the
debt the country owes TO the wives anC
mothers, and to the faithful women il
the field and in the hospital. to make tn,
victory sure; and what these women suf.
fered while their husbands and loYe6
ones were on the battlefield, while they
were in care of the families at home only
God knows He called attention to tn,
fact that their duties were NOT finished.
When our flag hoated free from oceaI
to ocean, from lake to gulf, we thanl
God this is a united country We see tn,
country at peace and united. But w,
must never forget that America is ia
from Gods ideal. America is responsible
by reason OF her position in the Council
of Nations. Shall this country by reason
of its foremost place follow in the cours,
of other nations? In the course of Bah
ylon. Nineveh, etc? Shall this eountr,
ever become like one of these2 We ar
told we haYe no need to ask such ques
tions; that nations are like individuals
they haYe a time to be born, to grow