The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1904-06-20
VALLEY FORGBCHURCH
President Makes q Notable address
on Historic Spot.
SERVICES ARE SIMPLE
Chief Magistrate Declares the Battle
at This Place and the One at
Gettysburg Turning Points
In Tive Crises.

Philadelphia, June 2O,--On the bis
toric spot at Valley Forge where
Washington and his gallant boys of
rs" suffered in order that the United
States might become a nation, Presi-
| dent Roosevelt delivered a notable ad-
dress Sunday.
This was Evacuation Day. at Val
ley Forge, and the anniversary was
celebrated appropriately ia the little
edifiice which has been erected Oh
what is TO be the site OF the Washing
ton Monument church.
Accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt. At
toruey General and Mrs. Knox Presi-
dent Roosevelt drove to Valley Forge
from MI. knox's country home, Valley
Forge farm, 10 attend divine services
al S:45 IN the Washington Memorial
chapel Several hundred people had
assembled at the chapel. but only 81,
part Of them could gain entrance, a.
It's capacity 10 very limited The pres
ldent and party were seated near the
altar, which was simply draped win
- 3i'FN anu iNehii llaSt
After the simple service of the Ennis
copaJ church had ended the Rev. Her
bert Burk rector of All saints church
at Norristowu Pa. Introduced the.
president. who spoke in part as fol-
lows.
1T is a great pleasure 10 come here.
this afternoon and to say something
on the erection Of q memorial chap.,|
on this great historic site Three
weeks ago | was at the field Va here the
bloodiest and most decisive battle oil
the civil war was fought. and a is al
noteworthy thing that this state oil
PENNSYLVANIA should have within its
borders the places which mark the tvycI
turning points in our hlstory-Cettv4-
burg, WhiCn saw the high Tide Of the
iebetlIon-aud Valley Forge. which saw
the getting beyond of the danger point
Of the revolution. There have been tVcI
great crises 10 our natural history. tvaI
crises Whcf failure meant the ab~o-
Sute breaking asuuder of The nation
one the Revolutionary war. one theI
civil war II the men VINO took 4rmsI
1u '.6 for national Independence haaI
failed hen not merely would fhereI
never have been "a national growth otI
this continent, but the wnoI.. spirit ufI
nationality for the younger lands ofI
the H"lrd would have peushed suhI
unborn
'lt Is good thing that these land
marks o' our history ettysburs
and Valley Fprge-oua should COM
memorate single Tremendous effort
and the other what We need on incl
whole, rather more difficult to do
long sustained effort. Only men vithI
a touch of the heroic tu them coulii
have lasted out that three days stug-
gle al Gettysburg. Only men fit loI
rank with the greet men OF aH time
could have beaten back the mighty
onslaught Of that gallant aud wonder
fui Amy of Northern Virginia. whose
final supreme effort faded 81 The stone
wal on Cemetery ridge on that July
dav forty-oue years ago.
Here at Valley Forge Washington
ana his Coutiuentais warred nor
against the foreign soidierv but against
themselves. against an the appeals otI
QUE nature that are most dificult ~
resist. against djscouraGemeut. dis
content. the mean anvirS and Jealous
les and hrartburninss sure TO arise NJ
any time Iu large bodies OF men, but
especially sure to arise when defea
and disaster have come TO large bodies
Of men. Here the soldiers who car
RED our national fag had TO sufrt
from cold. from privation from hard
ship. knowing that their foes were wen
housed, knowing that things vert
easier for the others than il lid for |
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they had in them the spirit that mad |
them steadfast, not merely on an oc- |
casionaI great day, but day after day |
tn the life Of daily eudeavor To- DO duty |
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