The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-05-29
Memorial Day
Sermon Delivered at Worthin9'
ton, Minn., N. E. Church.
May ID. 1903.
Text Is. oO:l7.

Perhaps some of you have walked
out of Rome along the Appin Way
on either side you have seen the
ruins of toombs and monuments Of
the mighty men of Rome's Ancient
Glory.
Historians have suggested that
Roman soldiers fought with greater
heroism, because in marching out the
Appin way to the field Of battle and
of victory,or in marching back in
triumphal procession, they passed
between the toombe of heroes and
patriots.
They also counted their victories
in song and taught the names OF
their heroes to their ch;]den.
It is therefore not in vain that we
meet here today to commemorate
the deeds of our heroes such as We
see before us in picture but more
deeply enshrined in our loving and
grateful affections.
They have won their place IN our
hearts by their full conservation to
the great principles of liberty and
their sacrifice preserved for US the
largest freedom enjoyed anywhere
by men.
It is meant that we should gather
here this morning ''where glory
guards with solemn round the mem
DRY OF the dead.''
To the American there is no mem
DRY like that of our heroic dead.
Sweet is the REMEMBRANCE of the
men who suffered on plain, and in
marsh, and spent sleepless nights in
mountain side in hunger and pain,
I amid shot and shreiking shell, will
ing to give up life, yea more, to
endure q lifetime of physical suffer-
ing and to bear in their bodies q
legacy of disease that our country
should never 60 down under the
disintegrating influence Of state
sovereignty. They are all around US,
all bearing the marks Of conflict.
Yes, tho greatest boast of our
American people is our heroic G. A.
Il. VII.
=. A certain college president while
attending a congress of peace,
slandered the heroes of our civil
war by saying, 1.-The Grand Army
of the Republic does little more
than to get all the money it can out
/ of the government This man
must have been very prejudiced OF
unpardonably ignorant which OF the
two 1t is hard for US to say.
1t is no evidence that a man il
educated to see him wading around
q this world with q Greek or Hebrew
gramma a latin Lexicon or .
/ volume of Joseph's Cooks Boston
I Monday lectures. The evidence that
we are looking ont for is the fact
7 that man has some knowledge o.
i the fundamental as Of education and
/ is studying the world in which HI
4 lives, and takes this old planet with
i it's burden of worth az his text bool
1T is not question" says famous
educators ''of how much such and
! such q knowledge is worth but
what is it's relative worth"
Says the great Spencer: 1.-THE in
creasing acquaintance with the
knowledge of the law of phenomena
which has through successive ages
b embed us to subjugate nature to ou1
needs and in these days give the
common laborerer comforts that s
few centuries ago Kings could moi
purchase is scarcely in any degree
awed to the appointed men as OF
a 1nstructing our youth. for" says
n the same author we dress ou1
!. childrens' minds in the prevailing
fashion.
To come back to this good old
fossilized, college professor, whose
knowledge was all on the leaves OF
5shelf worn books, and who had been
dreaming for life time on the
events Of buried centuries and had
not brushed the dust of weary pages
from his over arching eyebrows,
ID is see that had it not been for this
Grand Army we today weuld not
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