The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-08-18
VICTORIES OF PEACR
Rev. Or. TalmaRe breaches o
Memorial Day Sermon.
Much ss Men Honor the brave, They
Look Forward 60 the Time War
shall 10 Abolished by
the Nations.


are now al work for that purpose. The
text is Isaiah II, a. Neither shall they
learn war any more"
Every great catastrophe is an inspi
ration for overcoming or az least fol
lessening danger. No sooner aid the
awful conflagration Of the Iroquois
theater take place In December, 1904,
than the whole city Of Chicago arose
in protest. EXcOriatina dsnunciations
appeared In all the daily newspapers.
Editors as well as people declared No
FIRE trap like that had right to exist"
At once there was a scurrying about OF
the city officials The fire regulations
were overhauled The means for fight
ing fire were increased The fire In.
spectors were clearly and emDhaticallJ
told that hereafter there was 70 be NO
evading OF the FIRE laws and OF the
building restrictions. The will Of the
people plainly said, THE horror OF the
past through criminal negligence Of the
city officials shall not become the hor-
TOR Of the future"
What Ia true In reference TO fire ca
tastrophes is also true about railroad
accidents The tragedy OF the Tay
bridge lD old Scotland strengthened the
abutments Of many bridges In many
lands. Tho terrific annual slaughter Of
human life upon the railroads Of our
country was the cause Of creating the
block system. the Westinghouse brake
and the automatic coupling whereby
car can be Joined 20 car without en-
dangering the body Of brakeman or
other railroad employee. SO the awful
tragedy Of the civil war, with It's mil
lion dead, ought 10 be On inspiration to
teach MS not only how we should honor
the soldiers who fought and bled and
died, but also how we should honor
those who are living, to prevent such
a horrible butchery Of human life In
tho future.
As han has TO be taught the art Of
war, 90 be must learn the art Of peace.
Shall be rot honor bis preceptors who
are teaching him how 10 cover the val
leys win houses and factories and
schools and churches instead Of with
campfres ana fortresses and burning
towns7 Shall We not honor tho men
who are teaching us how TO change
our plains Of ESdraelon into cities Of
refuge" which we're once battleAelds
in many wsrsi Shall we not honor TO-
dat such teachers as Professor n. q.
Holden Of Iowa Agricultural college,
vhe In 1904 gave 10 the farmers OF
the west a certain kind Of corn seed
which would produce a better hind OF
corn in that region than the farmers
had been able TO grow and thereby In
one year put into The western farmers
pockets 100000 900 more than had ever
been mere beforei Shall we not honor
such a one an we'll AZ We honor the
soldier who teaches the Iowa boy how
to march and how to shoot and how 70
sley his brother1
Shall we not honor Theodore Roose-
velrs pen as we'll as Theodore RoOse-
velt's sWOrd7 The pen which sum
mons the representatives Of all the civ
ilized nations 20 the peace conference
at The Hague Is just as truly brave
and patriotic AZ was the sword which
our president drew at San Juan hill
and the sword which today is ready to
be drawn II foreign nations dare tram
pie upon the rights Of American cIti-
zens. Yes. the pen Of peace Is to be
honored quite as much as the sword
Of war. Therefore, on this Memorial
Sunday, when friends and loved ones
are strewing the graves Of our dead
soldiers with flowers, would place
garlands upon the brows Of the living
heroes. upon the brows Of the men and
the women who are living and work
Ing to prevent future civil wars and fu-
ture international strife.
This subject which we are about ts
discuss is one which Is uppermost to-
day In the minds and hearts OF many.
"It has occurred to me recently" wrote
g dear friend from the east, that a
good subject for a sermon at some ear
ly day would be Peace and the move
ments being made for the preservation
OF the worlds peace. Now that the
statue OF Frederick the Great has been
set up in Washington Y Is seriously
proposed 10 supplement II with the
statues Of Caesar. Napoleon ana Han
nlbsI This may be o war college Idea.
I 40 NOT know who made the suggee-
tion. but 10 is NOT In line with the true
spirit Of the age. which Ia one Of peace
and srbltTehcn. Instead Of slOrifying
these great dsstroyers Of nations we
might 40 we'll 70 emulate the South
American republics Of Chile and Ar
gentlna, which have entered Into mu-
tual arbitration oompacts, melted their
cannon and set up huge statue OF
Christ on peak Of the Andes M the
bringor OF peace TO the world" That
letter has in II the true ring OF the gos-
pei and OF the best Christian states
manship. May Cod help us. one and
all, 10 honor the dead soldier today In
the best Of all ways by teaching man
kind 10 hSnog the gospel and the tenn.
poraI agencies that ore at work 10 pre-
vent future warsi
The dead soldier Of the civil war In
the first place should teach US that the
statesman who ought 70 be most re
spected In American politics is not nee
essarily the man who " elected 10 Of
fee but the man who would sooner he
defeated for advocating a just prlnci
pie than elected for advocating q
wrong one. he should teach us that n
JerObOam In exile may be more Of a