The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-30
TELL THE LESSONS
OF MEMORIAL DAY
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Pastors Preach Sermons APP
propriate to the Mourning
of a Nation.

Lie 1eSSOIlS OF memorial uaH We're re-
called yesterday, in anticipation of the
hallowed anniversary, by a number of ST
Paul churches. Pastors Of various de-
nom1nations-Catholic, Presbyterian, Con-
gregational and Methodist-had arranged
special services to honor the veterans.
The Catholic church of st. Francis De
Sales, James and DAILY street counted in
Its congregation yesterday a hundred Of
the German American veterans. They
assembled at the parish hall, over which
the stars and stripes were flying and
marched to the church. There solemn
high mass was celebrate
Father George Meyer. Of New York,
was the celebrant He was assisted by
Dr. P. R. Heffron, rector of the ST. Paul
seminary; DR.. John Seliskar, of the semi
nary; Rev. F. X. Bajic, pastor of the
church, and the assistant pastor, Rev
John Singer
Mozart's Seventh Mass was sung by
special choir of fifty voices. AS the
veterans marched out. at the close of the
services, the choir sang Gounod's Praise
Ye the Father
Father Meyer preached the sermon. He
compared at length the life of a soldier
such as was the Union veteran, with
the life of a soldier of Christ.
Members of Acker and Garfield posts,
G. A. R., of the Women's Relief corps
OF these posts and of the United Spanish
War Veterans, 200 in all, many of the
men in uniform, attended memorial serV-
ice yesterday morning at the Central
Presbyterian church, Cedar and Exchange
streets. They saw an American flag
draping the pulpit, and upon the pulpit
platform muskets stacked upholding
canteen and sword.
Memorial Day Not Gala Day.
Memorial day." said the pastor. Dr.
John M. Fulton lis not gala day for
sports and merriment; it is not a day for
celebrating victories OF for boasting;
neither is it a day for perpetuating the
spirit OF strife and encouraging dissen-
sion between the North and the South 1t
IS, instead. day for exalting patriotism
nation.
For this sermon upon 1.-The Mission Of
the Sword" DR.. Fulton took his text
of the Lord, how long will it be ere thou
be quiet? Put up myself into thy scab-
bard, rest and be still. How can it be
charge against Ashkelon and against the
seashore? There hath he appointed it,
Inc mission OF the sword was traced
through history as the establishment of
Inc liberty and equality of men before the
law. In Asia Minor, Greece, Rome,
among the Germans, the SaXons. in Eng
iand, IN America, during the Revolution,
the Rebellion and the war with Spain, the
sword had thus wrought out its mission.
For the veterans themselves, concluded
the preacher, Memorial day was day
VI ACAOWSA1lp dIIIOLS lLOSG WHO Iau tented
together upon the field and faced to-
gether the dread shock of battle For
Americans, not veterans, the services Of
Memorial day should be services of de-
Votlon In gratitude toward the veterans
because of their self-sacrifce
Old Soldiers at MORNING Service.
A number of old soldiers were present
yesterday at the morning service of the
Bates Avenue M. E. church, Ravine and
Euclid streets, where the pastor. Rev. S.
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Memoriam; Gods Use of the Sixties
Dr. Ryan maintained that the years of
the civil war were sanctified years
through which Providential purpose sought
to advance the cause Of human liberty
not only by aboliShing negro slavery but
by welding together the North and South
through the mysterious cement of inter-
necine strife.
The naval veterans Of the city went
to the Park Congregational church. Holly
avenue and Mackubin street. Although
Minnesota originally furnished but a
very small number of volunteers for the
Union navy, a sufficient number of these
veterans have since moved here from
other states to permit the organization
OF the Minnesota Association of Naval
Veterans. Two dozen Of the veterans,
including some from Minneapolis and an
equal number of ladies from the wom-
ems auxiliary of the association. were
at the Park church yesterday.
Upon the organ behind the pulpit were
displayed two large American flags.
ne pastor, rev. Alex. MclTr6gOr,
preached upon the words of Paul. 'I count
not my life dear unto myself" His theme
was Patriotism
Patriotism is exemplified, he said, both
the naval veterans displayed unusual
self-sacrifice, because, unlike the volun-
teers for the Union army these men of
the navy could not continue to associate
| in the service with their former friends
and neighbors. Once at sea a naval vol
unteer was generally isolated from all
his home ties. Hence naval veterans de-
served the special sympathy of their
country.
Talks to Naval Veterans.
DR.. McGregor told of what the nation
owed to the navy from the time of Paul
Jones to that of Dewey.
Patriotism, he continued, must go hand
in hand with religion and with intelli-
gence. This explained why the Anglo
Saxon nations had so notably succeeded;
they had linked intelligence and devo-
ton with love OF country. Memorial day
was most instructive, in America, to citi-
zenS who had come from foreign lands
In the absence of a standing army and
the display of federal power such ami
versaries turned the mind Of foreigners
upon our national ideals.
Acker post, G. A. R., and the Wom-
ems Relief Corps of Acker post, were rep
| resented yesterday morning by fifty men
and women at the First Methodist church
Dayton avenue and West Third street,
| where flags were draped about the pulpit.
The pastor Rev. H. V. Givler, preached
upon 'fOur National Debt of Gratitude .
AS explained in Joshua T. vi. and VIII.
said Dr. Givler, the children of Israel
| erected on the banks of the Jordan a
cairn of stones as a memorial to him who
had brought them to the Promised Land.
Thus the gravestones of the Union
soldiers should be a perpetual reminder
of the obligations of the American ma
ton to the men and the Providence that
brought the nation through the Civil war
The progress and outcome of that great
struggle could be explained upon no other
hypothesis than that the cause of the
Union was upheld by divine Providence.
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