The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
THE PRINCETON UNION

housewives courageous, and turned
boys into men. We sometimes ask,
does God care for man? Oh, yes, He
cares. Man is His co-worker in the
redemption Of the world. Man is
His medium in science, art, educa-
tion and war. BY man, through
God, comes the reform of each sue
ceeding age. But liberty has ever
been bought at a sacrifice of human
blood. No man hath greater love
than this, that he lay down his life
for his friend.
''The pen of the historian has
pictured in graphic style the return
OF the northern armies from the war
their proud march, the nations
honors cleaning on their brow. But
with this there was broken health
and few of the best years of man
hood gone. However, we should not
forget that there was another army
which went home with lost cause
and broken health. I like the say
ing of the old southern soldier, after
it was all over, who started home
barefooted with faded and ragged
uniform. 'Well,' he said, 4 am
going to start life over again. I
guess [ killed as many of them as
they killed of u.s.. The old south is
dead but the new south lives and
will live forever. Today the soldier
in blue and the soldier in grey shake
hands with Joy and sadness over the
lapse of 46 years which speaks of the
progress of the greatest nation under
the sun. The fulfllment of scrip
ture, you see-'A nation shall be
born in day.
'Many a mother, brother and
sister weep today for a face up
turned to a southern sky-a voice
that is still and a familiar figure
that never shall be seen again. But
the cause of God and humanity are
rolling on, and they helped to work
it.out.
"Unfortunately, most of our
histories tell our children that the
civil war was caused by the slavery
question. AS a matter of fact,
slavery was the occasion of the war
but not the cause. Slavery was the
sulphur match which exploded the
powder magazine. The civil war
was really fought over the question
of whether nation conceived in
liberty and dedicated to the PROPOSE
tion that all men are equal could
permanently endure.
''During the testing many forms
of secession were planned. In 1886
80 there was a secession movement
on in South Carolina and President
Jackson put down the rebellion over
the tariff. Then Daniel Webster
marked out the final lines of battle.
Webster carried the flag that Grant
followed at Vicksburg and shook out
the folds Of the banner that was
crimson at Gettysburg. Later the
strife entered into politics and Doug
las and Lincoln struggled for the
supremacy Of their principles.
fright has ever had to fight it's
way from the cradle of mans in
fancy to the grave. But right the
day must win. BE still and know,
said the Almighty, that I am God.
"Great battles of reform are yet to
be fought by the ballot box-Sunday
observance, the marriage laws, the
principles of temperance for the
safety of our youth. the happiness of
the home, the bartered rights of
childhood and widowhood, as well as
the rights of God. Let us guard
we'll our personal liberty bought at
such a cost. Character in soldier, in
statesman, in minister and all people
can only preserve our union. Fame,
numbers, wealth, heated ambition
alone, without right and God, are as
dust which sweeps across the path
way Of man. Character and trust in
God is the verdict of the Eternal
Judge.
"For at last it is true of both
north and south that the unseen
cords of memory stretching from
every battlefield and PATRIOTS grave
and hearthStone all over the land
shall swell up again like a mighty
chorus-the glorious triumphs of the
past which make us great. And in
the loss of the brave and the true,
which broke the hearts of weeping
children, wives and mothers, God
wipes away the tears today with his
own hand and points to the summer
land where the song birds dwell and
the heart grows stronger, and where
the immortal dead live again, and
where the flowers forever bloom, not
in the bosom of the grave, but by
the rivers Of wator forovorn,oro >,