Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-05-31

/ "holdS no more thriiilhs seois t'
/ tl.at of our Civil War
i This prosperous generation, threat
/ ened " it'll effemnacy and softness,
needs te reopen the pages of history
| and to linger long upon the PORTRAITS
/ of oar heroic leaders. A million North
| ern men over against a million South-
/ sern men. and a battle line thousand
miles in length. A million widows ana
three million orphan children. And the
war is not over in influence yet. 1T
viii never be over until the last GRIP
ple has dropped his MANNED body, I'M
til the last child, robbed of dead IA
| th,r's care. has recovered his losses,
ami tne last woman who has lived
alone through the years has found her
beloved" Have we not IN the
record of the war, as we call u
to mind on Memorial day. cause
not only for loving recognition @
what we owe the dead. but also great
springs of inspiration whence we may
dra,y strength and courage to Keep
bright the ideals they made luminous
My friends, no nation under heaven
has such a record for pure patrlottsni
ard heroic devotion as this siad iahu
whose men and whose women, North
and South as we'll have set that sa
e,ea hammer of stars and stripes at
the fore front of the nations ne
CIVIL War was not all loss. The pap
tism of fire was inevitable. In that
frfghtful blast the discordant parts OF
the nation were welded into one
mighty union for which South ana
North devoutly thank God. The
great Southern general, John B. God
ON wrote in the last pages of his REM
iniseences of the Civil War THE is
sues that divided the sections were
born when the Republic was born ana
forever buried in an ocean OF fratefnai
blood. We shall then see that. under
Gods providence, every sheet OF name
from the blazing rifles of the contend
ing armies. every whizzing shell that
tore through the forests at Shiloh anG
Cbanceilorsviller every cannon shoi
that shook ChieamaHgaa' hills Ut
Numbered around The heights Of Get
tysbufs, and alluthe blood and Inc
tears that We're shed are Yet 10 Lee
come contributions for The uphulldlnS
of American manhood and the future
defense of American freedom.
The Christian church received hS
baptism of pentecostaf power as i
emerged from the shadows Of CaI-
vary, and went forth 10 its world
wide work with greater unity anu
diyiner purpose So the Republic. rs
ing. from it's baptism of blood with 2
national life more robust, national
union more complete. and nationa!
influence ever widening, shall go for
ever forward in its benign mission 10
What heroic voices
speak of us across the silence from
the Great Beyond, bidding us remem-
Der that on the roaring looms OF
time" we must weave in the strands
Of lnyal service that shall make our
destiny complete Who can douai
the immortality Of the soul. writes
Houssave. when he feels the spirit
If the great men who have Illustrated
past ages animate himself There
nay be signs of evil in this age. there
nay be those who are selfish and GER
upt and il may be that the light OF
ugh idealism is sometimes dim. but
. long as we shall listen TO tlle
oiees Of the past as they speak 10 rs
n this day of memorial. SO long shall
he great light kindled BY Washing
on and. the boys Of 7s and kept
BURNING by Lincoln and Yen men a
81 be as beacon. guiding and IN
tightening the world For I have
cad a fiery gospel Wit n barnEsH
ows OF steel: As ye deal With M |
ontemners SO with you NY grace
hall deal; Let the hero. born Of We