Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1911-06-02

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Great VII.
PARADE TUESDAY MoRSIslG|
Exercises ii Afternoo Services
Services al N. !. Church Sal
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Services al N. +. Church San
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s Members Of the G. a. RI. the w. n
q. and the Signal Corps attended ssrs
vices at the N. 3. church Sunday NJ
morning where they listened to q yesy b
able sermon appropriate ID the q
casion BY Dr, ]. N. Greene, He chose
as his subject, The Christian Sold
Ter, using the text from second Tim
othy, iiou therefore endure hard
ness as good soldier Of Jesus
Christ He called attention To- the
many figures from soldier life to be !;
found In the Bible, and said that
the elements constituting the COOL
soldier were those which likewise
sho,lld be found in the true Christian
life; The speaker paid tribute to ths
American soldier, speaking In part as
follows. The American volunt nteer
has always stood as a unique Agnre
to the military affairs Of the world
Without the en- forced military ser.
vice required by some nations, ana q
without the immense expense Of q vast
standing army, America has ret had
great fainorganized and oft lnyisibls
army Ia the volunteers OF the land. &
and these men in hours of need have
provided Wal Of defanse as impreg,
SnabIe as Gibraltar In the beginninG
5of the recent war with Spain some
rash Spanish general declared that ~
could land the spanish army III Nav,
York. march across the country to S ID
Francisco II three days and Glenn ~ /
the sountry as he went. But an thss /.
little brush inn she spsI
EiSh found tIIetssa harder jjot tban
march across this continent ID three
days was the Job OF cleaning up the
American volunteer. That has always
been the great dificnlty .thc yoiun-
teer. When our boys In blue went
down south to settle the rebellion be-
fore breakfast they encountered the
same difHculty. Tho American yolun.S
Iteer was there, and 20 the breakfast.
was four long years in arriving.
Good Soldiers Esen...a, '.5Ss
IaAn essential in a god soldier ,s de-
lvotion to the cause Tor which he fights
a soldier who fights because he loves.
the cause will make better soldigrs
| than one who fights for pay. The
majority Of the men who marched
to the southland were men who coolly
counted the cost, were willing to make
the sacrifice, and marched away To-
Hay down their lives II need be. They
loved the cause at stake. They were
not hirelings. They were the good
shepherds Of the nations interests
Courage is an element in the lifo$
lof the good soldier. An army Of COW.
ards never won a battle. Courage
has been q crowning virtue in the
American soldier from the time Sar-
geant Jasper sprang to the rescue Of
the flag in the face of a volley Of bull.
llets, to the time when Hobson and his
men sank the Merimack off Santiago
"A Spanish soldier in the recent war
i.said, We can't beat these Americans.
When we fight other people the more
I'VE shoot the faster they run. But
when we fight Americans the more
we shoot the faster they come This
courage is characteristic Of the goo 6
soldier
| After speaking of obedience and
endurance as elements in the life of
the good soldier, the speaker applied
the elements named to the life of
Christian, stating that the Christian
soldier was the highest type Of SOL
diery. 81
Christian Soldier
''To be Christian soldier, said DIR.
Greene, one must have a conception
of the ideal or cause involved and be-
devoted to that ideal. ii there is any
ideal in the world that ought to ap-
peal to mans honor and devotion 1t 4
is the ideal involved In the Christian
life That ideal means the reign Of
the kingdom Of Christ which means i
the realization OF huinanity's Utopia.
Let us never forget that being Christ
ian means to be a 81 ies lighting for,
Continued age 8.
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