The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-08-31

the tread of the young going like Gaahads in
the knightest since Arthur marshaled the Round
Table against the infidel.
The Republic never and the Republic never
dreamed of such army will answer to its call on this
September morning.
Our handful of Revolutionary heroes makes only a
holiday parade beside this gigantic host
The Civil War of the SIXTIES and the great tragedy
in which the stormcradled Confederacy rose and fell
will be forgotten in the Of this mightest unit IN
the military forces OF the universe
And the cause for which they go the act fol
which they shoulder their gunsthe spirit IN which they
enter the war-has been proclaimed on the lips OF uni
versa statesmen the nobest and most unselfsh act
in the history of the human race.
Such splendid, glorious boys they are-these hero
sons of ours!
How they stand out among the universal soldiery-
with dash and vitality and splendor all their own!
In their khaki and olive drab in their sprngng step and
kindling eye, and in the blessed aroma OF liberty that
breathes about them they give to us and to other ma
lions the impression of inspiring and immortal youth
Already our streets and thoroughfares and in ouI
homes these boys have wrapped the Republics heart
instant the individual and in the civic heart the i'm
pulse to fold about them and bid them Godpeed
and God bless them upon land and sea-
Did you thing of it. that there soldiers like
these anywhere in all the world?
French upon their sacrifica battlefield brave
and superb.
And the Germans, indeed. terrible in battle
army with banners
But there is army anywhere like this, and SOL
ders anywhere like these
With hearts clean or SeflShneSS, with purposes
pure of greed with pulse free of stain, going
fight for others like the soldiers Of the and follow
ing the lead of the Christ who
AS He died to make holy
So they fight to make men free.
Shall not make then this September morning of our
freeborn holiday of praise and prayer and hope?
Shall we not make it hymn of rejoicing, that
ca has such men in her supreme emergency?
Shall not make it PSALM sonorous with the glory
Of our country and our Lord?
And shall not make it upon the lips of youth and
of men and and little children prayer that
the stars in their fought against Ssera
the Lord God Almighty the God and of men,
will hold these heroboys of in hollow of His
hand and fight for them and with them the air above
and the earth beneath and waters under the
EARTH and bring them victorious to better country
and nobler race?
This first day Of September should be day and
such celebration neither the Old nor the New
World has before.
The psalm and the song, the shout and the Sob the
praise and the prayer should fill the and open the sky
and reach to the Great White Throne as great peope
gathers in solemn sweet and resolution to
crate their priceless and immortal Offering and to bless
and speed the and the out to take their
place IN history as the central and conquerng
OF the fah OF Freedom and Democracy that vast and
thrilling Armageddon, where a balanced and trembling
civilization hangs the valor counrys splendid
sons and upon the blessing of our fathers God