Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-05-30
Memorial Services at the Centre
Church Sunday.


Sedgwick post. G. A. r.. and the
Womans Relief corps attended SER
vice in the Congregational church last
Sunday and listened to an able ser
mon by Rev n. r. Miles. The church
was trimmed with flags and flowers.
The text was Col |. "a: Il fill upon
my part that which is lacking of the
Affections Of Christ in my flesh. for
his bodys sake. which is the church.
Mr. Miles said: Men are ready to
undergo any cost for cause that is
worth enough. Suffering is an ele-
ment in the best life. When the
American people have been summoned
to suffer in war the glorious thing
has always been that the call has not
been Obeyed from constraint. but
by those who have welcomed the OPP
portunity TO suffer for a noble cause.
Paul SAYS that Christ did not suffer
all that must be endured to bring life
to the world and reconcile all things
to God. but that a remainder is left
over from Christ for us to fill out in
carrying on his work. Every genera
ton comes under the yoke of Christ.
and after it has done its best each
generation hands on to the next bur
able to dispose.
The social and industrial prob
lens which divide men today will not
be solved until they are approached
in Christ's way. each class identifying
Itself with the interests OF the other,
and seeking not simply to force its
OWE point. but to guard the right Of
others. Was the country called upon
to crf-
vastly inferior slave or Cuban? Yes.
Christ gave himself for the unde-
serving and the lost. Christianity
prizes the highest life, but it has no
place for an aristocracy that holds
those below in contempt There is
a flower Of character that blooms only
on self sacrifice.
Does the parable of the Good Sa-
marian apply TO governments? God
sent the oppressed. the ignorant and
the poor TO the doors of New England.
He laid a cross on our nation. II is
the glory of America to have been an
asylum for the distressed. and we
would remain such 10 as many as We
can lift up. The past week has wit
messed in the Inauguration of the
Cuban republic an event TO which our
president says he finds no parallel in
history. May the precedent here
set be sacredly kept. and our flag be
left or pulled down as either will
minister TO the good Of the helpless
as well as to ourselves.
Many of US whose lives fall this
side of 500 can never look on a COM
pany Of the Grand Army without sor-
row that we did not live in the day
that gave them opportunity to have
part in an immortal work. What you.
our fathers, bore for country. for man
and for God made you TO our school
boy days the ideal OF the patriot In
becoming our ideal there fell on you
a heavy possibility which rests
upon you still. We were reared to
look up to you unquestioningly. and
We cannot unlearn the lessons of
youth. PRAY God. and we will pray
with you. that We NAV never have
occasion to unlearn this lesson. but
that till the last soldier is wrapped in
the flag by hands that lay him in his
grave more reverently than comrades
bury those who die today the Grand
Army may be the nations high ex-
ample Of men whose thought is not
for themselves. but 10 give and to do
for their country"