Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1908-05-26

SERVICES
Annual Memorial Ser
vices Interest Large
Congregation

OOIl6S6t 0SIOIl
In the presence of a congregation
that filed ST. Peters church Sun
day eevning, the rector. the Rev. c.
H. Powell, preached the annual men,
orial sermon. Local organizations of
the Grand Army OF the Republic,
WOman's Relief Corps, and Spanish
War Veterans attended in a body. The
sermon IN part was as follows:
We have gathered tonight to 10
/ honor to the memory of those de-
Tenders Of our country. in its several
wars. whose souls have passed on to
Join the great majority. This is
noble purnose Just as snring is
passing into summer. symbolical of
those who went forth as spring was
opening into summer in their lives to
give them to the nation. As these
men wera made one in the cause for
which they gave their lives so we
are made in our loyalty TO their
dust One great simple article was
their whole creed-duf Y. as they saw
it. natri0tism love ~ their home
land. summoned them 10 the field of
battle ana they met the call. Such
principles are good enough now to
make rs forget al minor things in
heir noble sacrifice in our thankful
ness to God for raising up such men.
Let Us think Of the men whose
dust IS buried beneath the mounds
IL vendor cemetery that they and all
like them everywhere were-the
heroes. the true patriots. the true
! savicrs Of this land
eve can see them as heroes 90
forth to battle. to die or be wounded
; if they must. but to conquer whatever
might come And then if to die. no
complaint and no fear. snealling of
wife and children with their last
} breath and Of their hope that the
) country for which they died would
, not forget them. and leaving all the
rest to God No more glorious
heriosm was ever seen 'on this plan
ct.
: Gas patriots, they forget every
thing but the one great tender tie.
e They counted all things as loss save
? the excellency of the glory of an un-
I broken republic.
e They were saviors too. for after
2 every method argument. preaching.
pers,lasion-ha failed. no other way
remained for the cOuntry's salvation
than by shedding of the best blood of
e the land Their sacrifices have been
n made possible the splendid achieve
! tion in this latter day. Their example
/ must be an inspiration to the present
generation. whose opportunities and
responsibilities are in many respects
equal 10 those Of the men who en-
listed in the sixties and the nineties.
: One great question that is pressing
: solution in our country today is
q whether our government shall be a
}. democracy or an oli9archy in the
# future In the light Of the memory
g of the sacrifices of the men whom
we honor tonight can there be any
doubt but that true American man.
hood will vaiantly contend for these
e principles of equality and universal
$ freedom, with special privileges TO
n none for which our fathers fought
,f and bled and died?
'To the clouds and the mountains we
breathe it:
To the freedom of planet and star:
Let the tcmrcsts Of ocean enwreathe
it:
/ Let the winds of the night bear il
= Our oath that till manhood shall
le perish.
'e And honor and virtue are sped
We are true to the cause that they
cherish,
And eternally true to the dead,
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