Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-05-16
MILITARY HONORS SHOWN YOUNG
IOWA MARINE KILLED IN VERA CRUZ.
Req. Jonathan Lee
DeHDeTS Sermon
ODer YOUNG Hero

! the funeral sermon preached Dy
| Rev. Jonathan Lee of the Finle.
Avenue Baptist church over the re
! mains of Frank Devorick, was taker
from Ecclesiastes SIS, There is NJ
discharge in that war" The venerable
pastor of the south side church in the
course of his remarks said:
IN ancient days all the inhabitants
of an invaded land even to the infant
smiling out of it's cradle into the face
of an armed stranger were liable tc
be slain by the victorious enemy. Now
it is desired to separate the mass OF
the nation from the volleys of death
hurled upon the army.
Yet how terrible is war in our more
favored age. Think of the bereaved
homes where the killed in battle are
long missed as illustrated on this day
as we mourn the loss of this brave,
loyal young man who lost his life in
defense of the honor of our great coun-
try.
In the marshalling of soldiers to
guard their country against the in
vaders, it has been customary to make
exceptions in behalf of large classes.
Those of the gentler sex and all of
tender age as well as those who were
in advanced life and often those of a
competent age, size and vigor who
could hire a substitute were dis
charged.
1.-The war of which the text speaks
is one from which there can be no dis
charge. None are exempt save to two
lonely cases of Enoch and Elijah. The
world has yet seen no instance of a
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and line of siege confronting every
homestead and commanding every
group of our people. Death is after us
ALL There is no discharge in this
war You fall here and ! fall there.
The battle never ceases. Sure as we
live we must meet this common enemy
of all; it is appointed unto man once
to die.
mo remedies, skill or science can
save when death comes. These may
lengthen the life and guard health. Go
into the greatest drug store in the
world and learn it's owners history.
You will find that in spite of all the
on the shelves in that great
building, he has father and mother and
perhaps many loved ones sleeping IN
the graveyard and he too owns burial
plot in some cemetery where he ex-
poets to rest after the battle.
GO into the office of the greatest
and surgeons and you will
find photographs of the greatest men
in their calling whose faces death has
long since covered All kinds of
weapons and accidents are used by
the enemy in this war as well as the
dread diseases that wait around to
hurry mortals home.
"All must meet the enemy we call
death. Laborers in shops and factories,
bankers. farmers, doctors,
lawyers, ETC., none are exempt.
THE battleship Of death is nearing
all. The war on our race ravages
everywhere, confiscating all posses
sion, feeding with it's prey a grave !,
which will never be satisfied until time
shall end The war of death has been
declared upon all. War may cease
IN Mexico where the young soldier, to
whose memory we hold the service,
ost his life. the white dove of peace |
nay spread its wings over the nations
IF the earth. all trouble may be set |!
led by arbitra ton, no more use exist !
'or the great battleships, etc. but the
var of which the text speaks will rage ,
IN until the great enemy witch is death
shall be discharged"