Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
WILSON SPEAKS
To THRONES At
GETTYSBURG
President, in Stirring Address,
Rejoices in Great Reunited Ma
tiOn-LaudS Heroes.
Continued From Page I.

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 sacrifice and loss to the ut
termost; the high recklessness 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 II costs to make
a nation-the blood and sacrifice of
multitudes of unknown men, lifted to
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 will see, as 1t
were, a nation embattled, the leaders
and the led, and may know, IL you
will, how little except In form its
actions differ in days of peace from
its actions 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 dis
organized, without constituted lead
ers and the might of men conscious
ly united because we contend not
with armies, but with principalities
and powers and wickedness in high
plaCes2
Are we content TO lie still7 Does
our union mean sympathy, our peace
Contentment, 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.
u have been chosen the leader of
the nation. | can not 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
b8ttlefelds long ago and are gone
These gallant gentlemen, stricken in
years, whose lighting days are over,
their glory won? What are the or
GERS for them, and who rallies them7
Il have in 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 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-
cles of enlistment Their orders of
to-day are the laws upon our statute
books What we strive for is their
freedom. their rights to lift them
selves 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 to
come after them.
THE recruits are the little chill
dren crowding in. The quartermas-
ters' stores are in the mines and for
ests and fields, in the shops and fac
tories Every day something must
be done to push the campaign for
ward, and IL must be done by plan
and with an eye to some great des-
tiny.
"Builded by Gods Hands,"
How shall we hold such thought
in our hearts and not be moved ?
l 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 a
nation that God has builded by our
hands. What shall we do with It?
Who stands ready to act again
and always in the spirit Of this day
of reunion and hope and patriotic
fervor? 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
arms to the great tracks of life yet
to be conquered in the interest of
righteous peace, of that prosperity
which lies in a peoples hearts and
outlasts all wars and errors of men.
Come, let us be comrades and SOL
diers, yet to serve our fellowmen 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"