Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-05
FINAL CEREMONIES
 AT GETTYSBURG.
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50 years have gone by since then, and l crave the privilege of speaking to you for a few minutes of what those 50 years have meant.
 What have they meant? They have meant peace and union and vigour, and the maturity and might of a great nation. How wholesome and healing the peace has been! We have found one another again as brothers and comrades in arms, enemies no longer, generous friends rather, our battles long past, the quarrel forgotten-ex- cept that we shall not forget the splendid valour. the manly devotion of the men then arrayed against one an- other, now graSping hands and smil- ing into each others eyes. How com plete the union has become and how dear to all of us. how unprecedented how benign and majestic, as State after State has been added to this our great family of free meni How hand some the vigour, the maturity, the might of the great Nation we love with undivided hearts; how full of large and confident promise that a life will be wrought out that will crown it's strength with gracious justice and
 with happy welfare that will touch all alike with deep contentment! We are debtors to those 50 crowded years; they have made us heirs to mighty heritage.
 An Example of Devotion and Sacrifice.
 But do we deem the Nation com plete and finished? These venerable men croWding here to this famous field have set us a great example of oevotiont and utter sacrifice. They were willing to die that the people might live. But their task is done. Their day is turned into evening. They lock to us to perfect what they established. Their work is handed on to us, to be done in another way but not in another spirit. Our day is not over; it is upon us in full tide.
 Have affairs paused? Does the Ma tion stand still? Is what the 50 years have wrought since those days of bat tie finished, rounded out. and com pleted? Here is great people, great with every force that has ever beaten in the lifeblood of mankind. And it is secure. There is no one within It's bor- ders, there is no power among the nations of the earth. to make it afraid. But has it yet squared itself with it's own great standards set up at it's birth, when it made that first noble, naive appeal to the moral judgment of mankind to take notice that govern ment had now at last been established which was to serve men, not masters :? It is secure in every thing except the 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 the heroic days of war. because harder to see clearly, requiring more vision, more calm balance of judgment, a more candid searching of the very springs of right.
 War Fitted Us For Action.
 Look around upon the neId of Gettysburgi Picture the array. the fierce heats and agony of battle, col umn hurled against column, battery believing to battery! Valour? Yes! Greater no man shall see in war; and self-sacrifice, and loss to the utter most; the high recklessness of exalted devotion which does not count the cost. We are made by these tragic epic things to know what it costs to make a nation-the blood and sacri- flee of multitudes of unknown men lifted to a great 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 will see, as it were, a nation embattled, the leaders and the led, and may know. if you will, how little except in form its action differs in days of peace from it's ac- ton in days of war.
 May we break camp now and be at ease? Are the forces that fight for. the Nation dispersed disbanded gone mon cause? Are our forces disorgan- ized, without constituted leaders and the might of men consciously united