The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-06-03
Veterans Parade and
Hold Usual Exercises
A SPLENDID ADDRESS
NemOrial Day In This City Has Many
Attractions and Exercises of the
Day Were Unusually Interesting.
Memorial Sunday Sermon of High
Order.

Memorial Sunday Sermon of High
Order.
Memorial Sunday dawned, May
eth as fair and br;te' as Plupy
hute, of immortal 'ame could ask
iJr and the capacity of the First
BAPTIST church, to which the veter-
ans of Brooks Post, No. 10, and the
NTomens Relief Corps, were invited
Dy Rev. L. j. hamburg, the pastor,
vas taxed by the large congregation
which gathered to hear the Memo
rial address. The veterans, very fee
lie some of them, others as stalwart
S ten years ago, gathered at the
rost hall and were escorted to the
church by the school fife and drum
corps, the youngsters playing sacred
md patriotic airs as the "vets"
marched to their seats in the church,
George Kidder carrying Old Glory.
The auditorium was handsomely
decorated with flags and bunting
nd the orchestra, Mrs. hamburg at
the organ, rendered appropriate
music during the service. The SER
mon itself was fervent with patriot
ISM, fervent with high ideals and
'ofty thoughts and was heard with
the clearest attention In fact, every
line of Rev. Mr.. Bamburg's discourse
would bear repetition but lack of
space prevents the publishing of
but a very small part of the speak
er's powerful sermon. The text was
taken from Second Samuel, 10th
chapter, 20 I'd verse and was based
on Higher Patriotism" The speak
er said, in part:
We have not invited you here to
impart and information about the
late Civil War or rehearse the story
of that conflict whose every detail is
so familiar to you, to survivors of
that tremendous but victorious
struggle for the abolition of slavery
and the maintenance of the Union.
The cause for which you men
ought and your companions laid
down their lives is perpetual
cause. Because the war settled once
and forever, for our nation, the
great principle that all men are free
and equal in their inaleinable rights
maintenance of life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness, we are not
to suppose that the work of the pa
triotic citizens is done. These prin-
ciples still need defending and per-
petuating.
There must be no slavery of any
kind, no disunion in any sense. Our
nation can abide only as these fun
elemental principles are maintained.
A nation that shall have neither
within it or encroaching upon it
any principle of power or policy that
shall disrupt, destroy, or underline
the union.
A generation earlier would not
have been prepared for the conflict,
neither by conviction nor by train
ing. but the generation of which YOU
gentlemen are the survivors was the
one God ordained to settle the con-
fict. Our nations principals are
Fundamental tbou QUO n;,,;,,o ro1
given. Nations organized on any
other principle are decadent and
many have vanished from the earth.
Rome was nightly, Greece was
strong, Caldia, Babylon, but they
did not endure.
But we in America, though the
Youngest of the nations, are ground
ed upon these enduring principles.
And, l say, in the presence of these
veterans, by their example, by the
inspiration of their sacrifice, by the
evidence of their fast thinning ranks
these principles must be maintained.
They are the heritage which these
men bequeathed to us.
They must be taught in the school
house. Our children must have
them inseparable associates with all
their privileges and advantages.
They must be inculcated into the
minds of the stranger within our
gates, the stranger from across the
water, who is coming into our Dor
ders and becoming one with us, and
whose numbers are so great that
soon he and his offspring will consti-
tute half the population of our coun-
try. Our capitalists must operate
their fortunes and dispense their
wealth, in strict accord with them.
Our legislators, national and state,
must legislate in strict accord with
these principles, magnates, trust,
stock manipulators and stock gamb-
lers, spectators in the commodities
of the people, state officials, city and