Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1904-06-03
TIE SOLDIER DEAD
Memorial and Decoration Days Fittingly
Observed-Appropriate Address
es and Beautiful Services.

Memorial and Decoration Days Fittingly
Observed-Appropriate Address
es and Beautiful Services.
Sunday was Memorial day, the occa-
sion annually observed in holding re-
ligious services in memory of the men
who wore the blue and have gone to
their last long resting place. This year
Hot Springs commemorated the day at
the Presbyterian church, where Rev.
DIR. Morris preached the sermon, all
the churches uniting in the services
The church was filled to its capacity.
There was beautiful and appropriate
singing for the occasion. DR.. Norris
gave q fitting and eloquent sermon.
He spoke from the Lords declaration
to Abraham: 81 will make of thee a
great nation" He said:
God is a great nation builder. He
always builds upon the foundations of
living truth, and if He had His way He
would build up nation that would
stand till the end of time. If Israel
had been faithful their nation might
have stood till now.
When God called out the Pilgrim
Fathers and Hugonots from the priest
ridden countries of Europe and sent
them out across a trackless sea into
the wilds of the New World He might
have said to them: 81 will make of you
great nation" The Almighty intends
to make of this great nation and the
foundations have been we'll laid.
We are debtors to many other ma
tions. There is room here for all ma
tionalities, but no room for red handed
anarchy; no room for anything that is
not American in spirit. Room for all
forms of the Christian religion, but no
room for ecclesiastical bigotry.
A nations strength depends more
upon the type of its citizens than upon
its standing armies and its nav,es
That is especially true here where ev-
cry citizen has certain sovereign rights
that make him an integral part, and
an important factor in the government.
Where else will you find a country
where the poor man has such oppor-
tunities? Where else is it possible for
an obscure boy in the wilds of the west
to climb to the highest place in the
government?
The crowning glory of this country
is the growing Importance of the COM
mon man. When Jesus began his mis-
sion he chose common men from the
hills of Gallilee to be his followers,
and from that day to this he has been
the friend of the laboring man. And
the greatest marvel is that the labor
ing man should ever turn his back
upon the Gospel and join with the law
less in trampling the Christian Sab
bath and Christian institutions under
foot.
There have been but few great and
decisive battles fought in the worlds
history, and the hand of God is seen in
these. Look yonder at the battlefield
of Marathon where ten thousand
Greeks stood their ground aud repulsed
more than ten times their number.
Had the scales of battle turned the
other way Eastern PasaDism would
have overrun all Europe, and the
wheels of progress been reversed. Look
yonder at the battle Of Vienna. in the
seventeenth century, when seventy
thousand Christians under the heroic
John Sabyeska drove back three hun
dred thousand Mohanlmedans. Had
the scales of battle turned the other
way Mohammedanism would have