Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-06-04
Caln,ase
Sermon
By Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaec. ID. ID.


those who. though wcarin. no uni
forms and bearing no weapons. yet
served their country in its crisis as
faithfully and patriotically as ever did
soldier at the front of the battle line.
The text is Matthew xix. ~ MANY
that are first shall be last. and the last
shall he first
From time immemorial nations have
honorcd their military chicftains. All
Carthage knelt In reverence before the
tombs Of llamilcar and Hannibal. All
Sweden honors the sacred dust of Gus
tavus Adolphus aud of Marshal Berna-
dotte. who afterward assembled the
throne as King Charles NV. All Ger
many reveres the name OF Frederick
thesGreat and Count Won Moltke. All
Italy praises Garibaldi and Victor
Emmanuel. In England the Duke of
wellington and Lord Napier sleep
within St Paurs cathedral under the
most magnificent dome of all London.
Westminster abbey Is the last resting
place of scores of generals and ad-
mirals who have made England's name
famous upon the land and upon the
sea.
Not only do the modern nations hon
or their dead military chieftains. but
also the living soldiers who have shed
their blood upon hard fought battle
fields. They honor not their generals
only. but the humble privatcs who
once carried the muskcts i'm the ranks.
or the tty noncommissioned officers.
or the licutenants. or. captains of small
company commands. When these sol
tliers die they are laid i'm the grave
with military hOnors. When as worn
out veterans they are unable 10 look
after themselves. then the best of
soldier homes are provided for their
housement. England has placed the
royal palace. i'm the Isle Of Wight.
where Queen Victoria passed most Of
her life, at the service of her conva
descent sailors France has her beauti-
full retreat of the lnvalides for her
aged soldiers. I'm the midst of which is
the huge sarcophagus of her greatest
warrior. whose dying request WIS this:
1T Is my wish that my ashes may re-
pose on the banks of the Seine. in the
midst of the French people whom l
loved SO we'll" The finest sites near our
own national capital and Milwaukee
and Danville and Santa Monica are fill
ed with the veterans of our own army.
who were just rs brave rs any that
wore the Confederate gray or the Fed
eral blue. who laid down their lives
upon the blood soaked soil of Nicks-
burg. characteristics. Lookout Noun
tain or Atlanta.
Though on this Memorial Sabbath
we specially honor the heroes who laid
down their lives ON the battlefield or
who survived the war To die afterward
of their wounds or of disease brought
on by the exposure and the hardships
of the war. ! want To call your at
tention this morning TO men who rem
dered other kinds of service in the
great struggle That conflict could
never have been fought out If some
who did not go to the front had not
Loyalty done their duty in other spheres.
There were some who would gladly
have shouldcred a musket and gone To
the war. but renounced their share in
the danger and the glory Of the battle
that they might render less colspicu-
Gus hut no less essential service TO
their country. Let us give them. too.
their need of praise.
The Unpraised Heroes.
On this Memorial day | praise the
unpraised southcrner as we'll as the
unpraised northerner. l believe the
rix-il ftH MI
terrific as il was. mortal as il was.
with l.OUO.OO0 dead. was worth all the
sacrifice IL cost. Why: Because once
and for all IL settled the vital and far
reaching question that the United
States government forever was to be
bounded ON the east by the Atlantic.
on the west by the Pacific. OH the
north 10y the great lakes and on the
south 10y the gulf. Though the United
States proper comprises an area OF
3.025.GOO square miles. yet in that vast
area. great as IL is. there will never be
room for more than one government
any more than two queens can live
within the same beehive. This qucs-
ton OF one government had to be set
tied once for all by the sword. Ii IL
had not been settled by bloody con
fiict between the north and the south
II certainly would have had Ia bc set
tied later by bloody conflict between
the east and the west. Thus I honor
today the unpraised hero who in 1861
lived below the Mason and Dixon line
as well as the unpraised hero of Mich
igan and Pennsylvania and New York
and Maine.
First. on this Memorial day let tvs
honor the statesmen In the cabinet and
the Legislators in the capitol who con
Quoted the national government during
those four years of trial. In the north
ern capitol ut Washington and in the
Confederate capitol ut Richmond there
were men as brave as those in the
armies. Their duties were oneroIis.
their responsibilities serious. their
patriotism intense. Let us raise the
national flag over the dead bodies of
the senators and the congressman who
valiantly stood nj their posts during