Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-05-25
THINKS DAY WILL
ALWAYS BE KEPT
REV. M. e. GENGE TELLS VETER.
ANS OF CIVIL WAR THEY
HAVE ENvIA6LE PLACE.
ALL ATTEND IN BODY
Members Of Cloutr1an Post G. A. 4.
Women Of w. r. c. and Company
g, Hear Splendid Address at
First Christian church.

First Christian church.
"You have all carved a place fol
yourselves in the constellation of life
which will never die out When life's
sun has gone down for the last of you
there will be someone who will re-
member. Memorial day will always be
observed. While individuals may be
forgotten by the masses, yet, the mem
ory Of the soldiers will always live
and the love and sympathy which will
be stirred in the hearts of unborn gen.
erations by the tales of your glory and
valor, will keep aglow those sacred
fires which you now prize SO dearly
This, Rev. Morgan e. Genge, told the
members Of Cloutman Post G. A. r..
the members of the Women's Relief
Corps and the soldiers of Company G,
Iowa National Guard when they at
tended Memorial Day services at the
First Christian church Sunday morn
ing. The church was tastefully decor.
ated with red, white and blue stream
ers, flags and bunting. The choir and
male quartet made up of H. G. Young,
F. X. Williamson, Arthur Trautwein
and Ray Higbee sang several patriotic
selections. The center section of the
auditorium was reserved for the
guests Of honor and they marched TO
tho church from the court house where
they had previously gathered. The
entire church was filled with the con-
gregation and friends of the veterans
and relief corps.
Won Only BY Struggle.
I'VE are living in history making
period the speaker said, "and yet this
country has always been a history
making country. All that we have,
came by struggles. Yet, things that
do not cost something to get usually
are not worth having. We can only
value them when we compare them
with price paid One trouble, think,
with the younger generation is that
they do not consider heavily enough
the price which has been paid for the
liberty we, today, enjoy. They can not
estimate 1t and they accept it too much
as birthright. May we have firmly
instilled into all of us the words of
Kipling's Recessional, ooh Lord God of
Hosts be with us yet, lest we forget,
lest we forget
Mans noblest birth right is not i'm
perial force which binds down, but
In It's real essence is the life and char
acter that we form about ourselves.
All Of this liberty that we enjoy today
has been purchased at an awful price.
The flag has been dyed with the deep
purple of men of conviction. Those
banners are mute evidences of warfare
and struggle and yet they speak for
something far more powerful than war.
They are the ensigns of peace, the en-
blems Of universal brotherhood and
the insignia of liberty.
A Brothers Conflict.
''The terribleness of that struggle
greatly augmented by the fact that it
was brothers conflict 1t was then
that brothers. hand gripped brothers
throat and hardly death itself can
loosen such a grip as that. 1t is al
NEST impossible to bridge the chasm
that forms when two men are at each
others threats with the same convic-
tons, the same purposes in view and
the same blood running through their
veins, each solid that his ideas are
right. Oh men, don't you think that |
the boys of the south did not believe
In what they were fighting for They
were as Arm and as solid In their con-
victions as you were.
"You did not beat the south. You
1t by the spirit Of war but i
now - at last has come the spirit Of |
love to conquer it and today, should
there come call, the man from vir-
ginia would stand shoulder to shoulder
If the south not a soldier of the north,
but soldier of the United States of
America. To men of convictions, such
Us you had. love is conquering. 1t Is
, power, 1t is the force that is back
# universal and national brotherhood
Ind it is what has cemented people to-
,ether In the bonds by which they
stand today.
Lauds Heroine Women.
Y would not take away one thing
rom that flag which has been by you
70 spotlessly preserved. 1t can not
,hange it but If it were possible to add
lnything to it I would weave into it's
abric the tear stained aprons that ]
we're hung over the picket fence gates |
when the fathers and sons, brothers ]
md sweethearts went marching away !
o war Those calico aprons belonged
0 women that we're as great heroines '
t home as you men were heroes on
he battlefield. Their stories will never
e told. The tales of those who stay
d behind are too sacred to be related !,
nd too precious for any writer to ever l.,
e able to PEN" :