Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04

were wiling to die that the people
might live.
But their task is done. Their day
Is turned into evening. They look TO
MS 10 perfect what they csta blished
Their work is handed on TO us TO be
done in another way. but not in an
other spirit. our day is not over, II
is upon us IN full tide.
Have affairs paused? Does the
nation stand still' Is what the 80
years have wrought since those days
Of battle finished. rounded out ana
completed?
Calls Nation Secure.
Here is a great people great with
! every force that has ever beaten in
| the life blood o. mankind. And it is
| secure There Is no one within its
| borders there is no power among the
nations OF the earth TO make 1t afraid
| But has II squared itself with It's own
| great standards set up at It's birth,
when it made its first noble, naive ap-
| peal to the moral judgment Of man
| kind to take notice that "a government
| had now been established which was
| 10 serve men, not masters
1T Is secure in everything except
| satisfaction that its life is right, ad-
| justed TO the uttermOst to the stand
ards Of righteousness and humanity.
| The days OF sacrifice and cleansing
| are not closed. We have harder
| things TO do than were done In these
| heroic days Of war. because harder to
see clearly, requiring more vision.
| more balance Of judgment a more
| candid searching Of the very springs
Of right.
Look around you upon the fields
| OF Gettysburg. Picture the array
| the fierce heats and agony Of battle.
! column hurled against column, bat
| teries believing to batteries. Valor?
Yes, greater no man shall see In war;
and self-sacrlhce and loss to the ut
| termost; the high rccklessness OF eX-
| allied devotion which does not count
the cost.
The Cost Of a Great Nation.
| we are made by these tragic, epic
! things to know what It costs to make
"A nation-the blood and sacrifice OF
multitudes Of unknown men. lifted to
| a greater stature In the view of all
generations by knowing no limit to
| their manly willingness to serve.
In armies thus marshaled from the
ranks Of free men you viii see, as II
were, nation embattled. the leaders
| and the led. and may know, if you
/
actions differ in days Of peace from
| it's actions in days Of war.
| May we break camp now and be
! at ease2 Are the forces that fight
| for the nation dispersed, dishanded,
! gone to their homes forgetfu Of the
| common cause? Are our forces dis
| organized, without constituted lead
ers and the might Of men conscious
! ly united because we contend not
. No.
| and powers and wickedness in high
places?
Are we content to lie still2 Does
our union mean sympathy, our peace
| Contentnent. our maturity self-com-
prehension and clear confidence in
choosing what we shall do? War fit
ted us for action. and action never
ceases.
Refers to Another Host.
q have been chosen the leader of
the nation. ] can not Justify the
choice by any qualities of my own
but SO II mas come about, and here
stand Whom do ! command The
ghostly hosts who fought upon these
battlefields long ago and are gone
| These gallant gentlemen stricken i'm
years. whose fighting days are over
their glory Won What are the or
Gers for them, and who rallies them
Il have in mind another host. whom
these set free OF eivil strife In order
that they might work out In days of
peace and settled order, the life of a
great nation That host Is the peo-
pie themselves, the great and small
without class or difference, or kind,
or race, or origin, and undivided In
interests If we have but the vision to
guide and direct them and order their
lives Alright in what We do.
our Constitutions are their arti-
Giles Of enlistment Their orders of
to-day are the laws upOn our statute