New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-05

! erations by knowing no limit to their
manly willingness 10 serve. In armies
thus marshalled from the ranks Of free
men you will see, as II we're, a nation
embattled, the leaders and the led, and
may know. if you will, how little ex-
cept in form its action differs in days
Of peace from its action in days Of
war.
May we break camp now and be at
ease? Are the forces that fight for the
nation dispersed. disbanded, gone to
their homes forgetful of the common
cause? Are our forces disorga Lied,
without constituted leaders and tie
might of men consciously united be-
cause we contend, not with armies.
but with principalities and powers and
wickedness in high places. Are we
content to lie still? Does our union
mean sympathy, our peace content
ment, our vigor right action. od- ma
turity comprehension and a clear
confidence in choosing what we shall
do? War fitted us for action. and ac-
ton never ceases.
/ have been chosen the leader of The
nation. cannot Justify the choice by
any qualities of my own, but so II has
come about. and here | stand. Whom
do I command? The ghostly hosts who
fought upon these battlefelds long ago
and are gone? These gallant gentle
men stricken in years whose lighting
days are over. their glory won?
What are the orders for them. and
who rallies them?
Looking to the Future.
| have in my mind another host,
whom these set free Of civil strife in
order that they might work out in days
of peace and settled order the life Of
great nation. That host is the people
themselves, the great and the small
without class or difference of kind or
race or origin; and undivided in in
terest, if we have but the vision 10
guide and direct them and order their
situations are their articles Of enlist
ment The orders of the day are the
laws upon our statute books. What we
strive for is their freedom. their right
to lift themselves from day to day and
behold the things they have hoped for,
and so make way for still better days
for those whom they love who are 10
come after them. The recruits are the
little children crowding in. The quar-
termasters stores are in the mines and
forests and fields, in the shops and fac
tories. Every day something must be
! done to push the campaign forward;
and it must be done by plan and with
an eye to some great destiny.
How shall we hold such thoughts in
our hearts and not be moved? would
not have you live even to-day wholly
, in the past, but would wish to stand
, with you in the light that streams upon
us now out of that great day gone by.
! Here is the nation God has builded by
our hands. What shall we do with II?
| Who stands ready to act again and al
ways in the spirit of this day Of re-
union and hope and patriotic fervor7
The day Of our country's life has but
! broadened into morning. Do not put
uniforms by Put the harness Of the
present on. Lift your eyes to the great
| tracts Of life yet to be conquered in the
interest OF righteous peace, Of that
H.
! hearts and outlasts all wars and errors
| of men, Come, let us be comrades and
soldiers yet to serve our fellow men in
quiet counsel, where the blare OF
trumpets is neither heard nor needed
| and where the things are done which
make blessed the nations Of the world
in peace and righteousness and love.