The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-26

Great Crises in the Universal Race
 Movement.
 1 Admiral Foete Post. No. +, Sunday evening, by invitation, attended West vile M. D. church. A large audience was present, and the pastor, Rev W. W. Gillies. preached a fine memorial sermon. The church was prettily dec orated. The sermon. which was much enjoyed by the veterans, was in part as follows:
 God and men are cooperating for the advancement of the race In times of peace and by the dreadful methods of war, by all the varied and unnumera- ble processes by which life is disci- plined, and the soil is made regnant, the world is moving onward to ward that sublime purpose of God, perfect ed humanity.
 Of all the mighty revolutions and re- forms, and history-making epochs, which have propelled humanity for ward almost by leaps, none will com pare. when all the facts are known. with the civil war.
 By the victory of the Creeks over the Persians at Marathon there was se- cured the growth of free institutions. the liberal enlightenment of the west ern world and the gradual ascendency for many ages of the great principles of European civilization. It was Charles Marte, faithful man of Ger manic race. who, at the battle Of Tours, by a decisive victory over the Saracenic host, determined that Eu- rope should be Christian and not Mo i hammedan; that the cross, and not the crescent should be the worlds con querng symbol, and the inspiration of the coming civilizations. Napoleon de- mands our admiration for his unchal- lenged supremacy in matters of militia ny warfare but can only deserve our dishonor as we record the inhuman and selfish ambitions that lured him to at tempt at worldwide conquests and Waterloo the scene of his defeat and overthrow shall ever be memorable in human annals as the event whereby the victory of the allied forces under the "Iron Duke" gave strength and tendency to more humane methods of world-progress and determined the civ < ilizations os Europe.
 I There have been great crises in the universal race movement; footprints of blood upon civilizations highway l most visibly indicating the impededI though determined movements of the race towards it's high and final goal.
 And Japan and Russia have clashed arms in the same struggle; the field of l oerations is removed; the participants fight under other standards and speak l other tongues; the methods of war are more scientific; their engineery of de- struction more modern; the question at issue may be stated in different terms. 1 but it is the same old fight, liberty against non-liberty, Japan representing broadening civilization that is phenom- enal in it's activity and progress, seek 1 ing to find larger and legitimate field for the fuller exercise of it's newly dis covered powers is a conflict with an autocratic, aristocratic, absolute mon- archy, at whose head is the Czar, per sonally an admirable character, but overdone by an iron-bound arrogant officiaism, against whose cabinet con clusions he could not, if he would offer any but a useless resistance and which seeks in the name of the nation al integrity and by means of the bloody l arbitrament of war to throttle Japan as she seeks to breathe a larger life and keep pace with the twentieth century civilization; surely we shall pray that These Yankees of the East" striving ! 6i fof, ap merce, civil and religious prosperity and freedom, shall emerge from that struggle victorious, more thoroughly equipped by wars stern discipline to take her place by the side of the lib- erty-loving nations of the world.
 There have come to us in large meas ure some of the significant and fortu- nate results of that struggle into which you poured the full measure of your devotion. One clear thought stands out like lofty mountain peak in the midst of the valleys that the civil war gave to the world new illustration of the Providential hand in human histo- ry. Revolution in history are but Gods purposes ripening fast"
 There is an intimate relation between the sacrifices you made, my soldier he roes in that strife, as Gods purposes in the world: every Union battle won was the achievement of truth; every success was the prosperity of God in human affairs.
 Heroism and reverence are synony- nous terms; high-born patriotism and religious devotion are paralelled sentiments that find that common root and offspring in the deepest and holiest promptings of our human nature. Abraham Lincoln uttered the senti- ment that clearly defined the results of that war-that this government might not perish from the earth They should not perish from the earth as other nations have perished. The mighty monarchies of the ancient days have been wiped clean from the slate of l national existence; why not American
 America is the worlds last, best, field for the development of the race. The civil war was fought for the mainte- nance of those principles on the banks | of which nations only can survive.
 The war was successful; the princi- ] pies of national preservation were maintained, and America received a re- birth of freedom.
 History is not intelligent without the idea of a higher governing power.
 The reflex influence of all human en-
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