Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-06-02

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breast of the man she wished to honor.
Some of those soldiers had an empty
sleeve; some came on crutches; some
had their heads bandaged At last
there came litter. In it was carried
the physical wreck of man. Both Of
his legs had been shot away. One of
his arms was gone. His body had SIM
ply been riddled with bullets. Then
the queen, with tears in her eyes, bade
the bearers halt. She left her place
and descended the steps of her stand
to the side of the litter. She bent over
the poor veteran. On account of his
sufferings the queen wished to honor
him more than any of the rest. So the
more the Christian dead of our Ameri
can battlefields suffered the more Christ
has honored them. Therefore the more
are they alive today in the heavenly
reunions.
My fellow countrymen from the
north, the east and the south and the
west, this Memorial day let us go forth
to decorate with flowers the graves Of
the American soldiers who died upon
the field of battle because their glori-
Gus memories still live in our hearts.
Let us decorate all the graves alike;
let us put just as large wreath upon
| the grave of the unknown picket who
| was shot by the sharpshooter in the
moonlight when doing sentinel duty as
| upon the grave of the most noted gen
| eral of the war-Albert Sidney John
| ston, who fell at Shiloh; Leonidas Polk,
| who fell at Pine Mountain, Georgia;
| Jeb Stuart, the cavalry leader, who
| fell in Virginia; John Fulton Reyn-
i olds, shot at Gettysburg; James Birds
| eye Mcpherson, killed at Atlanta, or
| George Armstrong Custer, who was
scalped by the Indians a short time
| after the close of the civil war, receiv-
ing the same need of honor and the
same floral tribute at the hands Of
| their countrymen as the humble color
bearer who when the regiment was re-
treating rallied the men just before he
was struck by a bullet and leaped up
into the air, crying, "Oh, my God; I'm
gomez and fell dead. Give a hero's
garland to the farmer boy who kissed
his mother for the last time under the
shadow of the apple tree when he went
forth to die.
Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his
friends" Every one of the dead heroes
paid the greatest of all sacrifices for
his country. They gave their lives in
order that others might live. And as
we, one and all, fellow countrymen,
from the north. the east, the south and
the west kneel down to place the
Memorial day flowers upon the graves
of the boys in blue and Of the boys in
gray, may we swear before God by the
affairs of the dead that we will oppose
with infiexible determination any one
who will ever again try to stir up sec
tional strife. The civil war is dead.
BY the blood of our loved ones we
swear it. The civil war is dead! By
the northern regiments which followed
Fitz-Hugh Lee and Joe Wheeler and the
southern regiments that followed Law
ton and Merritt in the Spanish-Amer-
lean war, when north and south fought
side by side, we know it.
The Lesson of Memorial Day.
Then, as we kneel on Memorial day
by the affairs of the dead soldiers who
fell upon our American battlefields,
may we consecrate anew our lives to
our country's service. May we realize
that when we serve our Lord and Mas
ter best, then we serve best our nation
May the sorrow and the sadness, the
sufferings and the deaths we this day
commemorate instill in our hearts q
, profound love of peace and a deeper
, conservation to him whose name is the
, Prince of Peace. Let us labor to sc
disseminate the teachings of Jesus thai
war in the future shall become an i'm
| possibility. Then shall be only gospe
, peace. Then the American people viii
not only love the Lord their God with
, all their hearts, but they shall love
their neighborS as themselves. Their
the battles of the civil war shall be
remembered as the sad result of dis
sensionS that are no longer settled b!
the sword, but are submitted to the
arbitrament of the Prince of Peace
Then the glory of the Lord shall cover
this land as the waters cover the sea
Then the red stripes of the American
flag will not be the symbol of an earth
y
ment.
: Peace upon peace. like wave on wave,
This is the portion that we crave;
u Peace like the rivers gentle flow,
b | Peace like the mornings silent glow,
;, From day to Sc in love supplied,
Z An endless and unebbing tide.
e Peace flowing on without decrease
h From him who is our joy and peace;
: Peace through the night and through thu
day.
e Peace through all the windings Of oul
f way,
; In earthly toll which may not cease,
: A deep and everlasting peace.
d o King of Peace, this peace bestow
, Upon our country here below:
" Peace from the Father and the Son,
Peace from the Spirit all his own,
e Peace that shall nevermore be lost
o. OF Father Son and Holy Ghost.