Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-30
breaches SERMON
ON SIGNIFICANCE
OF MEMORIAL DAY
Rev. DR.. Lyman Whitney Allen
Praises Deeds of Heroes
of Three Wars.

"Our Soldiers was the subject of an
address delivered yesterday afternoon
at the Fourth Park Presbyterian
Church by the Rev. DR.. Lyman Whit
ney Allen. AS a prelude to the address
DR.. Allen read an original poem, "A
Soldiers Crave" which was published
In the New York Independent some five
years ago, has had a very wide circula-
ton and has been much used at Me-
mortal Day celebrations throughout the
country.
His address follows in part: ME
mortal Day, while originally set apart
for the purpose of concentrating the
soldiers who fell in the Civil Wal and
decorating their graves has now a much
wider influence. it pertains to the mem
DRY of all our soldiers-the soldiers Of
our three great struggles. the American
Revolution, whose heroes gave them
selves to the establishment of a nation
conceived in liberty and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created
equal; the Civil War, whose heroes
proved whether a nation so conceived
and so dedicated can endure; the
SHdIlSn Val. WilOSt lcIotS L
strated the fact of America as the
world's hope, and that government of
the people, by the people and for the
people should not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln, in his immortal
Gettysburg address, gave h keynote
to all memorial celebrations and start
ed the elegiac anthem of praise and
gratitude that shall never cease.
1--WE honor our heroes. We strew
flowers n plant flags where their
forms repose. We are grateful to God
and to them for what they did and
what their heroic deeds achieved for
us. AS the years pass on we realize
more and more the illimitable scope of
their heroism and sacrifice. Europe and
America today behold the triumphant
march of the worlds greatest states
man, Theodore Roosevelt. But with
all Roosevelt's native genius and abil-
tiles he would not lave these ovations
and be so honored and exalted were not
this nation which he represents the
great nation it is-with no cleavage
along the Mason and Dixon line, and
with no slavery to mai and debase It's
beauty and magnitude. Because our
country Is what it is-the greatest Of
all national forces, the mighty mistress
of the Pacific sea, the supreme Chris
tian leader in the worlds civilization, Is
largely why American greatness of per-
sonality and achievement commands
the world.
THE three wars are over. The
heroes are fast passing from US. But
there is a fourth struggle in Which we
of today are soldiers-the great struggle
of American democracy, popular gov
eminent, it's conservation In our own
country, its evolution, development,
life and destfny-the moral struggle,
the fight for Righteousness. the battle
for the home and for the Sabbath and
for honesty and purity and for the
amalgamation of many bloods into a
people of one blood, through whose
veins shah flow a strong, mighty tide
of Christian patriotism.
II attended a funeral recently OF one
of the heroes OF Memorial Day. Over
the casket lay a flag. Upon the flag
lay a silver bugle. 1t was a bugler of
the Civil War who had died, n of
those who helped to inspire soldiers
with courage. regiments with strength.
Upon the bugle I noticed a place where
the instrument had been repaired. At
that spot a bullet had struck 1t and
dashed it from the bugler's hand while
he was playing. He sprang to the
earth, seized 1t at the risk of his life.
placed it to his lips and sounded again
the notes of inspiration. His bugle at
his lips is silent. Those lips are
hushed. That form Is under the sod.
But the notes he sounded, the inspira-
ton he gave, the victory he won for
humanity and for our nation lasts and
shall endure forever. Such men we
honor on Memorial Day. and in honor
ms them we honor the great Divine
Captain"