Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-06-04
CalnaSe
Sermon
BY Rev.
Frank De Witt Talmaee, ID. ID.


those who, though wearing no un'-
forms and bearing no weapons ye'
served their country in its crisis us
faithfully and patriotically as ever oiu
soldier at the front OF the battle iihe'
The text is Matthew xix, ~. MANY
that are first shall be last, ana the 'aS'
shall be first"
From time immemorial nations have
honored their military chieftalhs' "a"
carthage knelt In reverence before 'he
+omhs Of Hamilcar and Hannibal All
Sweden honors the sacred dust Oh Jus
tavus Adolphus and Of Marshal Berha'
dotte, who afterward ascendeu .ne
throne as King Charles XIV. All ue,
MANY reveres the name OF freueii.m
tho Creat and Count Won Moltke. All
Ito,v praises Garibaldi and victor
emmanuel. In England the Duke oi
wellington and Lord Napier steep
within st. Pauls cathedral under 'ne
most magnificent dome OF all Lonuon'
Westminster abbey is the last resting
nloce of scores of generals ana "u'
mirols who have made England h"nio
famous upon the land and upon the
sea. IT,, hon.
NOT only do the modern nations hon'
or their dead military chieftains, out
olso the living soldiers who have sheu
their blood upon hard fought Datt'e-
fields. They honor not their geheia'S
only but the humble privates "ho
once carried the muskets IN the rahAs'
or the Lstty noncommissioned oncerS, ,,
or tho lieutenants, or captains OF smaii
oomnonv commands. When these soi'
diers die they are laid In the grave
.,,i+b military honors. When as WORN
ont veterans they are unable 10 iooA
after themselves, then the pes. Vl
"soIdier homes" are provided for their
housement. England has placed ine
rovol nalace. in the Isle or Wign.
where Queen Victoria passed most VI
!, ,,or ,Ife at the service OF her cohVa
!. lescent sailors. France mas her De"u..
a f,,l retreat of the Invalides Tor he'
ooed soldiers, in the midst OF WHICH Il
the hinge sarcophagus Of her creates
warrior. whose dying request was 'nio
.I+ 10 NV wish that my ashes may re
nose ON the banks Of the Seine' III u"
midst of the French people whom
,ovod an we'll" The finest sites near ou
own national capital and Milwauke
ond Donville and Santa Monica are Ill
- "a With the veterans Of our own arm,
- who were Just as brave as any lhs
wore the Confederate gray or tue re'
eral blue, who laid down tne'r NV NV
mon the blood soaked soil OF WICK
burg. Charlottesville, LOOKOUT "ou'
tain or Atlanta.
Thouqh on this Memorial saDpa'
we specially honor the heroes "nv ="
down their lives on the Dattieheiu
, who survived the war to die atter"al
~ their wounds or Of disease Droue
on hv the exposure and the hardsnll
of the war, l want to call your
tention this morning to men "no ie :,
dered other kinds Of service III
graot struggle. That conflict cou
meyer have been fought out IL SOL
..... who did not 90 to the front hau
Iovally done their duty in other sphei'
er There were some who would giau
have shouldered musket anu son'
the war, but renounced their snare
tho danger and the glory OF the pat
that they might render less conspi'
GUS but no less essential service
their country. Let us give them' !
their need Of praise.
The Unpraised Heroes.
On this Memorial day l praise
unpraised southerner as wen as
unnraised northerner. / believe
civil war, bloody as 1t was a"iui
terrific as it was, mortal as
. with 1000 900 dead, was worth all
RI sacrifice it cost. Why? Because o
!, and for all it settled the vital ana
reaching question that the Ohi
states government forever was 10
bounded on the east by the AuaA
ON the west by the Pacific, on
$, north by the great lakes ana on
soutb by the gulf. Though the on
States proper comprises an area
2. 3.O25, 600 square miles, yet in that
90 area great as it is, there will never
.....- room for more than one goVernn
eny more than two queens can
within the same beehive. This q
% tion of one government had TO pe
tied once for all by the SWORD.
had not been settled by a bloody
fiict between the north ana tue s'
onu # certainly would have had to De
fled later by a bloody conflict pet'
the east and the west. Thus ID
today the unpraised hero VINO III
lived below the Mason and Dixon
oa we'll as the unpraised hero OF \
igan and Pennsylvania and Ne"
and Maine. :.
First. on this Memorial day, ie
. honor the statesmen In the capine'
the legislators in the capitol VINO
Quoted the national government "
a those four years of trial. In the u
u. ern capitol at Washington ana IL
Confederate capitol at Richmond
were men as brave as those III
armies Their duties were one
their responsibilities serious,
patriotism intense. Let US rais'
lining pat;onoI aeg over the dead bodi
grave nae .%o oonators and the congressman
vo,iantlv stood at their posts
those awful years of carnage, as
as put a wreath OF flowers upo
graves of the mel who died at
NJ Mountain, Antietam or Frede
burg.
1t is so easy to speak sneerini
o, can ,ur washington legislators. 1t
ay as eosv to call the United States
ion OF .to .a' "r,;,Iionaires, assembly" o
gns OF .ne ~ - .ho old fogies" It is so c
"' 'n' say the house of representative
collection of nonentities, who are ar,