Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-06-02
But brightest scene Of peaceful cain
Is Randolph in her regal grace,
And none who see and feel her charm
VII ever seek another place.
rha MamorlaI serviee.
Chorus


Thirty-three comrades and associate
members OF q. s. Grant post, No. 80, q.
A. r.. marched to the Baptist church
+ Sunday morning for the annual Memorial
service. which was attended By eongre-
CATION that filled the auditorium. Tween
4 ty-one members OF the Relief corps &C
companied the post.
4 sextet of male voices sang two special
anthems, sour Country's Heroes" and
"soldier. Rest besides the Gloria Patri,
a hymn and america" in anthem form.
/ The sextet was composed OF John l..
Hutchinson, DR.. A. G. Bailey, A. M.
+ Vaughan. Ernest Hatch, Z. j. stoekweu
and II. B. Bell.
The sermon was delivered by Rev. J.
+ Wallace CHESHIRE, who took Tor his sub
/ iect. safeguarding the Nation,h and
found his text in Psalms l4i 20 lie
hath not dealt SO with any nation" An
abstract of Mr.. Chesbro's thoughtful dis
course is given below.
The building Of a nation is no small
+ task. The shaping, planning, forming OF
national life and character Is task that
takes more than human powers and wis
dom. We know that in the training OF
child il Is CT vast Importance what sort of
beginning the child has. Other things
being equal. the child who has good
4 start in life has a larger opportunity to
make great success than the one VINO
does not have good start.
The nation that starts with God behind
+ il and takes God with it through all its
I DAYS Is the one that will stand first and
4 foremost among the nations OF the earth.
That this has always been so ana always
Il will be so, history tells US. Those who
doubt the leadership OF God in the aftalrs
OF men have but to read the pages OF his
tory to see that the nations which are
welding the greatest power IN the world
have God with them.
God chose one nation to be peculiar
people-his own mouthpiece to the world
and the beginning of that nation Is
worth our study. There was a man IN
Ur OF the Chaldees, Abram by name, who
was called OF God to go forth out OF the
land where he dwelt, and he went forth
without any knowledge OF the land to
which be was to come. II you are famil-
lar with the story Of the wanderings OF
Abraham you cannot but perceive the
leadership of God, and His love and care
all through that mans journey and bis
life.
When from the seed OF Abraham there
had grown q multitude OF people and
they had been in bondage in Egypt, God
called snother man to lead them OUT and
they went under that leadership out from
slavery to wander for years in the wilder
ness while God protected them. He fed
them miraculously, gave them laws 10
govern them and then opened TO them the
land He had promised to Abraham aud
his children. lie made them great peo-
ple while they trusted Him but laid His
hand heavily upon them when they fell
away from Him.
Now let us take up the growth and life
OF our own country. The conditions IN
which we live today date back in our race
to 1915, " hen in England people who
had been held almost in slavery, II not
practically so, rose against their king and
at Runnymede won from him the Magma
Charta which laid the foundation OF those
great principles that rule and stir every
English speaking man and woman at the
present time. In that charter the people
demanded that the home should not be
violated; that a mans house should De
his castle and that no man should be
brought under arrest without due pro-
cess Of law. The King had to sing the
Magma Charta, not because he wanted to,
but because it was demanded BY the peo-
pie.
-Four hundred years later we see a mob
gathered in London and King Charles
trembling for what that mob may do to
him and his family. In that mob are
some Of The greatest thinkers and preach
ers and they demand that King Charles
shall recognize representation OF the peo-
ole in the councils of the nation ana SO
was born the representative government
OF which we are all so proud today. A
few years 90 by and there is another mob
in London; King Charles is dethroned,
and Oliver Cromwell is protector. de
lived in a day when people could not
worship God according to the dictates OF
their own consciences but must conform
to the established church, or suffer perse-
cution. In Spain the inquisition was
raging. the Wsldenses were suffering
martyrdom in France, and in England
the leaders OF the Reformation were sent
into exile. The Pilgrim fathers sought
refuge in Holland, and oliver Cromwell
raised the cry for religious liberty and
called the English people to its defence.
Here we have three greet liberties
which people struggled to secure. The
! Pilgrim. IN search OF EtAtkious AecNoui,
sought a home in this land, and In 1920
they set sail from Delhsyen in that bis
toric boat which landed its burden OF
souls ON Plymouth Rock to found this
New England country. So you see our
race on in the mother country ~ vel as
in this. Those men who came here had
many problems to solve. In 1886 Hary-
ard college was founded; in another SO
years the foundation of the New England
town meeting had been laid and in loo
years and little more from the landing OF
the Pilgrims the Declaration of Independ-
ence had been written, TO be followed by
the constitution OF the United States.
A great problem faced the nation when
it was born, but the question raised at
Lexington and Bunker Hill was answered
at Yorktown. During the so years be
fore the Civil war men who were careful
students were full of pessimism as to
whether the people could control affairs
and make their own laws. but God was