Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-29
IMMENSE AUDIENCE HEARS ELo.
ouENT GRAFTON FOR
DECORATION DAY.
PAINTS VIVID SCENE
OF THE WARS CARNAGE
G. A. r. Posts and Women's Patriotic
Organizations Arc Guests Of Honor
Sunday Pays Veterans Glowing
Tribute and commsnds Jesus Christ
to Thorn as Their Saviour.

An immense auQl6nCe, the largest |
that ever gathered in the city for a
similar purpose, heard at the taber-
nacle this afternoon Rev. Mr.. Sundays
address. 1t took place this
year of the sermon usually delivered
by one of the pastors on the Sabbath
preceding Memorial Day. Prominent
among the audience. in which there
were many from out of the city. were
the veterans of the civil war and their
wives and widows.
Frank M. Thomas post and the w.
r. c. Of the city and the Phil Sheri-
dan post and the Winchester Circle Of
Ladies Of the G. A. R. Of the soldiers
home attended in a body. Seats were
reserved for them as the honored
guests Of the afternoon.
In honor Of the occasion the plat
form was decorated with the national
colors and flowers. The musical pro-
gram, preceding the service, was Of
patriotic songs, and Miss MacLaren
and Messrs. Butler and Fischer sang
las a trio, Shadows"
Was Great OratoricaI Effort.
From an oratorical standpoint Mr..
Sundays address was perhaps the
greatest he has delivered during his
five weeks stay. His description of the
horror of war, and of the scene Of
Gettysburg were magnificent and ter
rible portrayals of the carnage Of war.
He closed with an eloquent plea in
which he recommended to the veterans
the saviour Jesus Christ as their
company when the bugle sounded
flights out" and as they passed into
eternity.
Rev. Mr. Sundays address was in
part as follows: "It Is with much
pleasure that I accepted your kind
invitation to deliver this address Of
Decoration Day. For the honor con-
heartfelt gratitude. I can not shrink
from any service that bears upon it
the will Of the old soldier.
Tomorrow is day for memory and
for tears. A mighty nation will bend
above its honored graves, and will pay
to noble dust the tribute Of its love.
Again we tell the story Of our coun-
try's life-again recount the lofty
deeds of vanished years, the toll and
suffering and defeats and victories Of
heroic men.
The Seeds Of War sown.
con this day the great struggle be-
tween colonists and kings should be
told" From this Rev. Mr.. Sunday
branched iAao an eloquent grafton Of
the glories Of the men who fought and
achieved our nations independence.
'But," he continued, "the chains our
fathers broke were put by them upon
the limbs Of others. They ceased to
regard the great truths as having uni
versal application. Liberty for ALL in
Guided only themselves. They qualified
the declaration. They interpolated the
word white They obliterated the word
all. They made merchandise Of men.
They legalized a crime. They sowed
the seeds of war;
The Call to Arms.
With glowing words Of praise for
the pioneers ne told of the development
Of the west, and followed 1t by de-
scription of slavery in the south, and
the conditions which brought on the
civil war, and Of the attack upon Fort
Sumpter.
Continuing, he said: "At the call to
arms, the yeoman left his furrow, the
mechanic his bench, the merchant his
counter, the lawyer his brief. The par
son left his pulpit and the members
their pews, and clad in the nations
blue, they wheeled into one common
battle line, singing. We are coming
Father Abraham 100000 more Then
came the hurried partings, the whis-
pered farewells, and away to the war,
for the stars and stripes must be de-
Tended, and our nation and our liber-
ties perpetuated at whatever cost OF
hardship, or treasure or Of blood.
Paints Picture of War.
"The immortal Lincoln bowed in
prayer and pleaded heavens almighty
aid, and altho the assassin's deadly
arm cut short his high career, his
soul went up to God with four million
broken manacles in his hand.
amid the murky gloom the conflict
fearfully ragged. Battery answered bat
terry, and volley replied to volley, and
charge met charge, while continent
trembled under the battle tread and
the nation, bleeding, reeled. In the
smoky distance dimly seen were Grant,
Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, Garfield,
Logan. and a host Of equally brave,
leading on to victory.
Sunday here painted a vivid word
picture Of Gettysburg. and compared
1t with other decisive battles Of the
worlds history which have marked
epochs in nations lives. and followed
with description Of how the nation
gathered its remnants together and set
about the restoration of its dismem-
bers parts. He told Of how Industries
and commercial pursuits grew with
leaps and bounds, and how the coun-
try, from the closing days OF the war
prospered as 1t had never prospered
before.
Honor For the Soldier.
Continuing he said: GAIL honor then
to our soldiers. who fought with more
than Spartan bravery the forces of
dfsunion, saved the republic, liberated
the downtrodden slave, flung with now
meaning that star spangled banner to
the breeze, till restored union spread
the protection Of that flag from east to
west from north to south. Then in the
constitution was written by blood and
tears that which the declaration Of IN.
dependence had declared long bsyors.
That men are created equal
A Word to eVtsrans.
Veterans my last Is to you. The
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