The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-05-31
MEMORIAL SUNDAY
ON
Union Services Largely Attended Rev
T. E. Thuresson Delivers A Most
Impressive Sermon.

T. e. Thuresson Delivers A Most
Impressive Sermon.
The union services ON Sunday in
honor of Memorial Day were very
largely attended. The patriotic orders
We're present in body. The union
choir gave some very choice music
and the church was handsomely de-
corated. Rev. T. e. Thuresson
preached a sermon that struck re-
sponsive chord in the hearts of all
and which was pronounced one of the
most eloquent discourses ever heard
in our city. Rev. Thuresson took for
his theme ''The Voice of the Nation S
Dead. The following is the brief
outline of the sermon:
Text He beng dead, yet
speaketh.
These words were first said OF
Abel, the pioneer saint. The inspir-
ed writer declares that the centuries
had passed, the life and blood of Abel
still spoke its message to the, world.
This is true of our nation dead,
especially of those who spilled theil
blood on battle fields for freedom Is
sake, and to preserve for US an I'M
broken union.
The voice of our nations dead re.
minds us that we are the debtors OF
past ages. AS each succeeding spring
time is debtor to the season that has
gone before, also each generation
owes its tribute to those who have
wisely and unselfshly toiled in the
years that have gone by.
There are three things that make
a nation-:I Its Land; its people; its
institutions. We have the best land
underneath the sun; the best balanc-
ed type of manhood and womanhood
the centuries have produced; while
our institutions of government, school,
and home, in their liberties, privi-
leges, and opportunities are unequall-
ed in the circle of nations.
Much of the efficiency and grandeur
of these we owe to the generations
proceeding US whose courage conquer
ed the land whose mingled blood built
up the finest race; and whose patri-
otism preserved our institutions.
The voice of the nations dead is
teaching that no great good is wrought
without sacrifice. Man solves no pro-
blem until he puts himself in, with
all he has. The men Who have
wrought most nobly for the world,
are those who have forgotten self in
their interest for the common good OF
all.
History affords conspicuous ex.
amples in Moses, Socrates, Cincinnati
tus, Paul, Garibaldi, Washington,
Lincoln, and the whole host of heroes
who, when our government was as
sailed turned their faces from home
friends, and business, and gave them
selves to unselfish service in terrible
war. But it is the old lesson Otter
learned, no great good comes but by
sacrifice.
The voice of the nations dea
teaches that God trusts the commo
people. We will not rob the grea
of an item of their glory. Our gener
ais fought we'll. but even they wer,
from the rank and file OF commo
folks. The common people" Tough
the battles that gave US our country
and preserved it intact.
1t was ever thus.
When God wanted man to liberat
His people from Egyptian bondage
He passed by kings and princes, an
chose Moses, a keeper of hocks.
When God wanted man to secur
the liberties of the Anglo Saxon H
passed by the blue blood"of Britain
and chose a tiller of the soil. H
made league with Cromwell, an
put in his hand the authority to strik
death blow to the 'divine right {
kings" and the sturdy commoner pu
a crick in the back of every kin
: from that day until now.
When God wanted man to put hi
heel on Americans greatest curse
human slavery, He found a ragged be
down on the Sangamon bottom, an
trained him for his task. He ha
lazy father, and was left mother