The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-06-01
PREPARE FOR WORLD PEACE
Members Of Grand Army of the Repub-
lie and Allied Organizations Attend
Arrual Service at Park Avenue
M. e. Church in Body.

Services of a memorial nature were
held in many of the churches in Ke-
nosha on Sunday but the feature SER
vice of the day was held at the Park
Avenue NJ Il. church Sunday evening
when the Rev. Peter Stair, pastor of the
church delivered the annual Memorial
Day sermon to the members of the
Fred S. Lowell Post Of the Grand Army
and the allied organizations. A large
congregation attended the service.
Speaking on the subject 1.-TWO
Flags Mr.. Stair used as text, "And
he shall set up an ensign for the ma
tons" Reviewing briefly the story
of the rise and fall of nations, the pas
tor said, cit is we'll for US to recall
our own history and traditions, and to
mark well our course that we forsake
not the ancient landmarks.
"The Civil war was the Gethsemane
of the American nation where she bore
the nation g sins and made sacrifice for
her own salvation. There our country 8
flag was baptized anew in the blood Of
her heroic sons The death angel pass
ed through the land and into nearly every
household and smote, not only the first
born, but in many cases whole families
of brave boys. They were imbued with
the spirit Of the martyred Lincoln
when he said, without contemplating
consequences, before high heaven and
in the face of the world, I swear eternal
fidelity to the just cause, as deem it,
of the land of my life, my liberty, and
my love-.
The Stars and Stripes are stamped
indelibly with the great words, Lib
erty, Equality and Fraternity This
is the ensign which has been set up
for the nations and under it's protecting
folds have gathered the oppressed mil
lions from many nations.
But what is the potency back of
these great words2 Where will you find
stitutions of people save where the
ensign of Christian conquest has been
raised as symbol of the faith and
hopes of the people.
AS He died to make men holy
Let us die to make men free. /"
Because Christ died to make men
holy, heroes have been found to die to
make men free. But for the Christian
Conquest Flag which has floated above
our nation s flag from the beginning
of our history, the Stars and Stripes
with all their holy significance would
never have been possible. AS the King
dom of Christ has advanced and the
blood red banner of the Cross has been
borne aloft the gospel of Brotherhood
has influenced the nations AS This
truth spreads among men despotism be
comes impossible and the thrones Of
tyranny are doomed.
"The crest and browning Of all good
Life IS final star, is Brotherhood.
Our hope is in the aftermath
Our hope is in heroic men,
Startled to build the world again
To this event the ages ran:
Make way for Brotherhood-m make way
for Man.
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Make way for the Son of Man, the
Christ and God and way shall be made
for man everywhere In the Cross cf
Christ we glory, towering DER the
wrecks of time. This cross shall yet
shine as a beacon in the heavens above
every nation, the pledge and prophecy
of universal peace and brotherhood.
May this country, signally blessed
of heaven through its entire course, pre-
pare herself under God as an ambassa-
dor of peace to the warning nations of
Europe by an enthronement of the
Prince of Peace in the heart of the
nation s life. This is the preparedness
for which we plead, new and hoher
conservation to the exalted ideals of
Christ. Then these two flags, the Stars
and Stripes and the banner of the Cross,
blended into one shall be set up as an
ensign for the nations" and the provi-
Dental destiny of this republic with its
message of liberty, equality and bro
therhood to the race of men of all kim.
dreds and tongues shall have been full
filled.