The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-05-29
nEnORIAL SERnON.
Rev. Mccartney Delivered an Excel
lent Address at the Congrega-
tiOnal Church on Sunday.

t1O0dl NnurCn on SUNDAY.
The following is part of Rev. Nc
Cartney's Memorial sermon which
was delivered to u large audience on
Sunday, May "a:
There are certain questions that
must be settled in every age. You,
as members of the Grand Army, help
ed to settle the questions of state
rights and of slavery. There is
constant conflict between good and
evil. Sin in different forms presents
itself and must be met. Ignoring,
shirking responsibility, comprOmis-
ing questions, don't settle them.
We show our love to the country's
dead not by remembering them on
Decoration Day by placing a wreath
| of flowers on their graves, but by
holding sacred that for which they
| died, and doing our best to perpeLu
ATE it.
There are four questions to which
will call your atteutlon this morning.
The first is the divorce question.
This evil is threatening the very
| life of our nation. One of the glOries
of the American civilization Is the
home. Woman has been elevated TO
| the highest place. In the home she
is queen. The sanctity of the home
has given US a peculiar people. Two
| OF the dearest names OF our language
are father and mother. Around the
| name home the sweetest memories
cluster. The person, who through the
divorce court strikes "a blow here,
strikes At the very heart of our civili-
zation. This evil is crime against
our national life and our religion.
The vows at The altar, ''fiff death do
us part" can not easily be broken;
and THAT which God hath joined to-
| yether" can not be broken by any
earthly court. In Chicago last year
there were over 1900 divorces granted
and in sixteen of our largest cities
there we're more than 12000 divorces
last year. All honor to the Roman
Catholic church which forbics di-
vorces and TO the Episcopal clergy man
who stopped wedding procession
just before the altar when he learned
that one OF the parties had been
divorced. The church, the state,
every loyal citizen, must cry and de-
mapd that this shall stop or the glory
of our Republic shall perish.
! Another great evil is that of in
nually one billion dollars for alco-
|
half drunk and half sober. The
joint, the saloon, the box in the eel
lar, must go if the nation you saved at
such great cost is to live. A traffic
that demands sacrifice Of one out of
every three boys to keep it going will
J soon sap the life blood of the nation
1t comes to destOry the home, tC
blight the hopes and to ruin the hap
piuess of our people. Henry Grady
said. at is the mortal enemy o
peace. IL has dug more graves and
sent more souls unshrouded to judg
ment than all the pestilences tha
have wasted life since God sent the
plaques to Egypt, and all wars since
Joshua stood before Jericho" Mer
| for the sake of the dollar, feed like
vampires upon the natl on's life blood
We might as we'll face the question
lone or the other must die.
The American Sabbath is anoLhe
questiOn We must meet and settle.
is an absolute necessity that we main
tain our Sabhath. Nj an must rest on
day out of seven. TIE French people
in defiance of the law of God changed
the day to one in ten. 1t was a fail
ure. They were soon compelled t,
repeal the law. Today intidel Franc,
| is fighting for strict Sabbath in re
gard to work. The American Sab
bath is not day Of baseball, theaters
picnics, excursions, but a day O
holy rest for body and mind. 1t i
said that Louis XIV. as he saw the aw
full results that were sure to follow
his course of living said, Il can stem
them during my life, but God pity tn,
next emperor AS result of hi
sins France ran red with blood
6por n ll<,ti
and France had a a.Reigu of Terror
1.-The nation that forgets God shal
be cast into hell. "Go must Judge tn
nations here in this life.
Foreign migration is another grea
question that is confronting the na
tiOn. l believe every loyal America
Is ready to welcome TO our land ever
| person who comes to be one of us
one who is willing to study somethin
of our history, our Institutions, ou
customs, our habits and faws-th
forces that have made us grea
uatinn. There was time when
majority who came were from North
ern Europe, sturdy sons and daughl
ers who become good American cit
zens, but today the vast majority ar
from Southern Europe, having a
conceptions of liberty. no desire t
enter into the spirit of our civil
ZatiOn. They cOngregate in Ou
large cities and in a little while the
are naturalized in blocks, used
their leaders in behalf of corrupt ol
iticians, sent to the polls in squad
TO vote, and their votes count u
much as yOurs-yOu who followe
the flag and know what it cost to sav
- this nation. We should deman
higher qualifications of citizenship
That their ideas of liberty should b
more than 20 believe that libert
means license to do as one please:
If for the blessings of American lii
erty they are not willing to becom
true Americans, and to adopt ou
customs and habits, they are NJ
worthy tn socuro thou,