The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-05-27

Governor Marshall of Indiana
has issued Memorial day proclama-
ton that is a sermon on patriotism
worthy of more than. a Statewide
reading 1t reads:
death is the arch-gleaner in
the fields of time. Each day is
harvest day and each soul is ripened
grain. Windrow after windrow, he
mows down the human race. He
spares not young man nor maiden nor
him who stoops with age. Each
going down leaves a void untitled
in some human breast: but the
patriots death sobers and fills with
sorrow the nations heart. If the
blood of martyrs is the seed of the
church, then the life and death Of
the soldier, who offered his life as a
willing sacrifice for the preservation
of the Union, must remain the most
fruitful germ in the formation OF
American character. 1t is we'll
for a people to live in the present
and to plan for the future, but it is
i'll for a people to forget the past.
Thus far, in our history, we have not
ceased to remember the toll, devo-
ton and sacrifice of the living and
the dead who, from '61 to '65,
counted all else naught if thereby
they might preserve the Union of the
States. Year by year, with the
beauty Of the lily and the fragrance
of the rose, we seek to voice above
their graves the gratitude of the
American to the hero of that age.
Only a few now stand near the
portals of that door which never
outward swings. This year as they
bedew with tears the graves OF
their long-gone companions in arms,
let the people of Indiana reverently
lay aside their usual avocations and
join in this solemn service. Let
them make the day one of solemn
conservation to the rights of men
and of saddened reverence for that
shedding of blood without which,
thus far in the worlds history, there
has been no remission of sin. In |
the hope that such will be the |
character of that day, I, Thomas R.
Marshall, governor of the State of
Indiana, do hereby designate and
set apart Monday, May 30, 1910 as
Memorial day, and do proclaim
the same to be a legal holiday
throughout the State. May all
that is said that day come from
lips aire with patriotism and hearts
aglow with love for the hero dead
and the hero living"
The blind chaplain of the House
sees some things that those with
two eyes may miss. His prayer
which asked for those things usually
petitioned for ended, the other day,
with this bit of practical instruc-
ton, for mortals rather than for
God, we imagine:
"Since the purity of the home de-
ponds upon the purity of those who
compose it, the character of the nation
depends upon the people who make
the nation. Help us, therefore,
as individuals, to strive earnestly
to cast out the beam from our own
eye that. we may see clearly to pull
the mote out of our brothers eye,
If we are to become muck-rakers,
help us to rake before our own door
and if we have time then, to help
our neighbor. Since cant and hypoc-
risv are the most heinous of all
sins, deliver us, we pray thee, from
them. -
But it is usually pleasanter to
help our neighbors clean up. and
they need it so much worse than it
is needed at home that helping the
neighbors is almost missionary work.
The Rev. DR.. Myers preached a
sermon in Boston. which did some ,
hitting on present day conditions /
and modes Of thinking. In this day
of extravagances, who doubts the
truth that every young squirt I
that sees a business man who has
worked and saved his money for
fifty years or more riding around in
an automobile, wants to do the
same" and does do it if he has to
his future to do it.