The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-25

Illustrations of the Lesson of the Text -The Heroes of the Civil wsr and Their Martyrdom-The Task of the Amerlcan-The sermon ia Full.
 At the Humphrey Street Congrega- tional church yesterday forenoon Rev. F. R. Luckey gave a Memorial day ser mon of much interest. The subject was 'The Cost of Service" The ser mon in its entirety was as follows:
 But Jesus said, Some one did touch Me, for perceived that power had gone forth from Me"-Luke viii, 46.
 Our Lord was on His way to the house of Jairus in Capernaum to per- form one of His three great miracles of giving life to the dead. In the crowd that thronged Him a woman having an issue of blood twelve years-which had spent all her living upon physicians and could not be healed of any-cane be- hind Him and touched the border of His garment. Immediately the issue of her blood stanched, Our Lord knew it in an instant. Why? Because the mira cle of healing had taxed His gracious vitality and force; it had cost Him, the Healer. As He Himself said in our text, Some one did touch Me, for I perceived that power had gone forth from Me"
 Friends, behind every blessing there is cost, Civilization is tree, nourished not by rain and snow but by the tears and blood of the patriots and prophets. Humanity is blessed, as the woman of our text was blessed, at great cost to the blessers. Do you know that scarce ly people has ever been evangelical without the baptism of blood?
 But let us come nearer home. On the water gate at the Worlds fair, Chi cago,, toward the Court of Honor, were these words; ITO the pioneers of civil and religious liberty-they who first offcast their moorings from the habita- ble past and ventured chartless on the sea of storm m-engendered liberty" But of these hundred and one men and wo- men-pioneers of civil and religious lib- erty-who landed at Plymouth in 1920, expatriated and alone, half were dead ere the first winter had passed. o! the cost of the privilege we enjoy of wor- shipping God according to the dictates of our own conscience!
 Then the descendants of these self same pioneers of religious liberty at the Concord river on the 18th of April, 1775, By the rude bridge that arched the j. flood, sz
 Their flag to Aprils breeze unfurled, Here once the embattl'd farmers stood,
 And fired the shot around the world.
 But at what cost these descendants of the pioneers of religious liberty won for us the civil liberty you and enjoy to- day! Men like us-studious, peaceful, lovers, husbands. brothers, sons-for- sock the wooded -hillsides, the river meadows golden with harvest, the twi- light walk along the river, the summer Sabbath in the old church, parents wife, child and sweetheart, and went away to uncertain war. Did it cost nothing? Not less lovely in those days were these peaceful valleys; not less soft the summer air; not less dear were wife and home and children. o! yes, it cost to gain the civil liberty you and enjoy to-day Let Valley Forge make answer, with Washington
 Dumb for himself, unless it were to
 But for his barefoot soldiers eloquent, Turning the snow to coral where they % frod,
 1, Held by his awe in hollow-eyed con-
 tent!
 Furthermore, think of the cost ''to the bold men, their names remembered or forgotten, who first explored, through perils manifold, the shores, lakes, riv- CTS mountains, valleys and plains of 7 l.. fN,, gate at the Worlds fair, Chicago, to- ward the lake, were these words: "A few dared, toiled and suffered; myriads enjoy the fruits; of many races, tongues, creeds and aims, but all heroes of discovery To the brave settlers who levelled forests, cleared fields, made paths by land and water and planted conmonwealths! To the brave women who in solitudes, amid strange dangers and heavy toll, reared families and made homes! The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them!" But O! the cost!
 And now it is '61i o! the cost of maintaining the Union and freeing it from the curse of slavery! Let three hundred thousand brave men, whose bodies rest beneath the sod, tell the cost! Let the torture and despair of Libby and Andersonville tell the cost! Let every empty sleeve-empty of it's limb, but full of glory and honor-tell the cost! Let every crutch on which the maimed soldier lfmps, but upon which justice steps more securely, tell the cost! Let every dollar we pay in pensions and taxes tell the cost! Let every bereft home and firesde, every heartache, tell the cost! Let all the perils of camp and march and battle all the privations and hardships and narneless sufferings of our civil war tell the cost of keeping whole the coun- try we love, destroying slavery and maintaining the constitution!
 Let us never forget, too, that the per- sonal heroism of the men we commem- crate next Saturday had two elements which are especially affecting and worthy of remembrance. AS President Eliot, of Harvard, says: ''In the first place, these men went through all the saualor wretchedness and carnage of war without any clear vision of their country's future. They did not know that victory was to crown the Union cause; they did not know that the na- ton was to come out of the four years st,,,,ooJo deIivered from slavery united