The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-05-27
c. A. R. VETERANS
OBSERVE MEMORIAL
T. S. Handsaker breaches Interesting
Discourse at Christian Church.
I'VE Should Live for Our
Country and Thereby
Honor Those Who
Fought for Our
Country"

Memorial services were held in the
Christian church last Sunday morn
ing. The G. A. R. Post and Relief
Corps attended in body. The sing
ing was led by the singers from the
various churches. Mr.. o. G. Craw-
ford sang in his pleasing manner
1.-The Old Guard"
The large auditorium was filled
with a sympathetic audience which
came to bestow honor upon our SOL
diers, living and dead.
Rev. T. S. Handsaker delivered the
sermon on "A Good Fight" based
on ii Timothy, At. The speaker
said in part as follows:
Friends I've are the most ia
vored people of all the earth. We
live in a land dedicated to freedom
by the blood of its martyrs. A land
given to us by the valor of the Revo-
lutionary heroes and preserved for
us by the heroic deeds of the soldiers
of 81 and '65.
This is country of political and
religious freedom; land where its
citizens are sovereign, where no re-
ligious demagogue can deny to any
the right to worship God according
to the dictates of his own conscience.
Ungrateful indeed would be the one,
who living in the midst of such bless
ings, would forget or lightly esteem
these privileges.
"Breathes there man, with soul so
dead,
Who never to himself has said,
This Is my own, my native land!
Whose heart has neer within him
burned.
AS home his footsteps he has turned
From wandering on foreign strand! !!
If such there be, go, mark him well,
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his
name,
Boundless his wealth, as wish can
claim:
Despite those titles, power and pelf,
The wretch. concentered all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from which he
sprung,
Unwept, unhonored and unsung"
In remembering our country, 1t is
impossible to forget those to whom
we are indebted for its origin and
preservation. We are met today to
give honor to whom honor is due.
The Grand Army of the Republic,
who today honor us with their pres
ence, represent great host of worth
les whom we can never repay for
their service in our behalf. They are
those who in the hour of our coun-
try's danger, rushed to the front, ex-
changing the comforts of home for
the dangers and privations of the bat
tie field.
We meet also to honor that most
worthy organization, the Woman s
Relief Corps, which has for its object
the assistance of the needy and the
commendable work of keeping the
fires of patriotism burning upon our
country's altar. The Woman's Re-
lief Corps represents in its constit-
uency the women upon whom some
of the heaviest burdens of the war
fell The soldier had his hours of
comparative safety. But for the
loved ones left at home, there was
never a moment but was filled with
anxiety. not knowing the fate of hus-
band, brother son or sweetheart.
Upon the faithful women were left
the burdens of manual toll that in
time of peace belonged upon strong
er shoulders. They were compelled
to bear the lashings of their task
master. the Demon of War.
To both these patriotic organiza-
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