Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1907-05-30
Memorial Sunday.

'~"~'''Sfsa' Sss9sys
Flags and bunting adorned the Baptist
church, in which assembled Sunday alter
noon U, B. Grant post, u. A. r., the
Veterans to hold the annual Memorial
service for the soldier dead. The clouds
that covered the heavens and shed rain
like tears upon the earth made nature
seem in sympathy with the tender menu
Dries quiekened ON this recurring day; but
kept many, perhaps, from paying by their
presence the honor due TO the departed as
well as TO the living veterans Of an army
We do well to call grand.
A chorus choir sang appropriate hymns
and selections, with beautiful duets BY
Mrs. 7. q. Brooks and her sister, Miss
Gail Lamson. The invocation was made
by Rev. Samuel Knowles OF the Baptist
church, aud the Scripture lesson Was read
and prayer offered By Rev. Fraser Metzger
OF Bethany church.
Rev. L. n. webber, rector OF St. Johns
church, delivered the sermon and, depart
ing from the usual and somewhat hack
neyed expressions OF patriotic eulogy, set
10 IN those qualities and that manner OF
living which make brave men and worthy
soldiers OF the cross OF Christ. His power
full reasoning and concise style held the
closest attention while he gave TO his
hearers, not verbal flowers halt smother
ing an idea or two, but compact thoughts
for their own elaboration.
There Is, he said, as much difference be-
tween heaven and earth as there Is be-
tween right and wrong. The man whose
thoughts are centered on heaven is dit
ierent kind Of man from the person who
IL thinking about earth. They are not TO
be compared. Thought is the material OF
which character IL made. IL you wish TO
| know what q mans character IL, you can
gel al II II you know what he Is thinking
about. BY thought character Is determin-
able. As you cannot read thought, you
judge OF mans character by his actions.
| You can do the same with q child at play.
A constant stream OF thought Is building
up man either for heaven or hell.
The highest spriog OF action is intellec-
| tual, the lower Is emotional and the lowest
OF all is voluntary. The excellence OF one
person over another is not that he does
more than another but that he does 1t bet
ter. certain person does an act and puts
! into II certain amount of character; an
other bias not that character to put into it,
and his act is OF no value or 1t 10 worthless.
Emotion is possibly the most powerful
attribute OF all. The business Of emotion
is to raise man to the contemplation OF the
ideal. What effe.t has martial music up
on you-a splendid oratorio, Q religious
ceremonial, Q beautiful building? Not
anyY Then, II these things do not pro-
duce in you any emotion, you are lacking
in character.
| Though emotion may be the most pow
erful, 1t is not the highest force. Intellect
is the highest-intellect which leads to the
heavenly ideal, to God. How often do we
see the effects Of wrong and neglect Of
duty II intellect were always our guide
1t would be guarantee of virtue.
1 In n al .cks ian
al courage and an intellectual courage
the latter the calm balance OF the mind
These are the things that 60 to make up 9
good man; they are the constituents OF Z
brave man and they are the constituents oil
q saint. The saints of old lived lives Of
great simplicity. Their attention and ef.
forts were conferred on heaven. They lived
out Of doors; they saw God, and they ros,
like stars IN tie armament there to shine
forevermore.
People are not thinking about God, and
they are not thinking about religion; any.
thing but that. Thousands Of books ant
other articles are written about every
thing under the sun, but not about God
and, considering who write the greater
part OF them, perhaps it is just as well
Our conversation is not Of heaven; oul
conversation is Of earth, most decidedly
so. People forget that they came from
Oous anu tnat tney are Ieturniug 10 0ou
The angel Of life puts the pen in ever,
child's hand and bids him write his owl
destiny.
Money, money, money is the all en-
crossing theme. show much money i
there in it, do you suppose ?" Is tn
question oftenest on the lips of men
And when they have acquired this money
they find it is nothing compared to power
it is not what they want. Power is n,
more satisfying; for possession VI powe
carries nothing without character t,
maintain it. Great occasions demaD(
character. Great character is to be pre-
ter, each in his own station Of life. Tha
is why we live and why the years ar
| niv IN