The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1904-07-15
UNPRAISED HEROES.
Rev Or. Talmage breaches a
Memorial Day Sermon.
Nnns We're Heroes Who Did Not
GO to Wnr-uoyS Who stayed
at Home Did Patriotic
service.

Copyright 1904 by Louis Klopschl
LOS ANGELES. Cal, May 29.-ln
this sermon for Memorial day the
preacher pleads for justice and recog
milton for those who, though wearing
no uniforms and bearing no weapons
yet served their country in Us crisis as
faithfully and patriotically as ever did
soldier at the front Of the buttlc line.
The text is Matthew xix. 80, Many
that arc first shall Dee last. and the last
shall be first"
From time lmmemoriul nations haye
honored their military chicftains. Al
Carthage knelt in reverence before the
tombs Of Ilamilcar and Hannibal. All
Sweden honors the sacred dust Of Gus
tayus Adolphus and OF Marshal Berna-
dotte. who aftorward ascended the
throne Ills King Charles XIV. All Ger
many revercs the name Of Frederick
the Great 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 ana ad-
mirals who have made EngMnds name
famous upon the land and upon the
sea-
Though ou this Memorial Sabbath
We specially honor the heroes who laid
down their lives on the battlefield or
who survived the war 20 die aftcrward
OF their wounds or of disease brought
ON by the exposure and the hardships
of the war. want 90 call your at
tcntion this morning 20 men who rem
dercd other kinds of service in the
great struggle That conflict could
never have been fought out II some
who did not 20 90 the front had not
I Loyalty done their duty in other spheres
There were some who would gladly
have shouldered "a mu,ket and gone 10
I the war. but renounccd their share In
the danger and the glory OF the battle
that they might render less conspicu-
ous but no less essential service TO
their country. Let us give them, too
their need Of praise.
ON this Memorial day ! praise the
unpraised southerner as well AS the
unpraised northerner / believe the
civil war, bloody as it was, awful and
terrific us II was, mortal as IL was.
with 100000 dead. was worth all the
sacrifice It cost Why1 Because once
and for an II settled the vital and far
reaching question that the United
[ States government forever was 20 be
bounded on the east by the Atlantic,
! on the west by the Pacific, on the
north by the great lakes and on the
south by the gulf Though the United
/ States proper comprises an area OF
/ 3O2j. GOO square miles, yet In that vast
area. great as II is. there will never be
room for more than one government
! any more than two queens can live
within the snme beehive This Ques-
I ton of one government had % be set
tied once for all by the sword. II il
had not been settled by a bloody con-
nict between the north and the south
/ IL certainly would have had 10 be set
tied later by a bloody conflict between
the east aud 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 US
honor the statesmen IN the cabinet and
the legislators I'm the capitol who con-
/ ducted the national government during
those four years Of trial In the north
ern capitol az Washington and IN the
Confederate capitol at Richmond there
were men as brave as those in the
armies. Their duties were onerous,
their responsibilities serious, their
/ patriotism intense. Let MS raise the
national flag over the dead bodies Of
/ the senators and the congressman who
valiantly stood at their posts during
those awful years Of carnage. as well
as put a wreath Of flowers upon the
graves of the men who died at South
Mountain. Anuetam or Fredericks-
burg
1t Is so easy 10 speak sneeringly OF
our Washington legislators. II is so
ensy TO call the United States senate
the "millionaires assembly or the
CLUB Of the old fogies" II Is so easy TO
saw the house Of representatives, is a
collection Of nonentities, who are ruled
for the most part by one or two men
who crack the party whip over the
backs Of their fellows But my
friends. believe that 10y such speeches
Injustice is often done TO able men.
We have a right 20 assume that men
who have been chosen by their fellow
citizens TO represent them in congress
are worthy men. and when we dispar-
age them we disparage the citizens
who elected them The first great bat
ties are not fought ont with sword and
cannon. but with tongue and pen In
legislative assembly. The civilized
world knew Spain WAS doomed long
before Commodore Dcwcy's guns spoke
IN Manila harbor When. on June l3.
1895. congress authorized the secretary
of the United states treasury 20 issue
siOOO0OO00 worth Of bonds FOR ma
tlonal defense. all the ultimate outcome
of the Spanish-American war was de
4 cidod. except how the treaty Of peace
should be signed The outcome OF the
terrific conflict Of 1861 70 1865 would
never have been the maintenance OF
! the Union if congress hnd not loyally
supported President Lincoln during
! that eventful period Aye. there were
| plants I'm those days. But the giants
! upon Capitol hill, whose moral courage