Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1917-06-01
HONOR DEPARTED SOLDIERS
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tons emblem, the stars and stripes on
of music and parade. they sleep on the
long sleep that knows no waking While
memory touches the green mounds,
farewells: Should it not inspire us to be
soldiers for our country, but also good
soldiers for God. Oh comrades in blue,
let me bid you fight the good fight of
ers and wives and sisters and brothers,
ever present at all these solemn occa-
sions They were your own dear loved
their names will come down to genera
tions-Surely God will reward them and
you IN suffering for a good cause. For
our Redeemer lives and eyer from the
skies, looks down and watches all our
dust, till He shall bid it rise Precious
It will take the ages as they roll, to re-
veal the sacrifice and patriotism of our
soldiers, father and statesmen.
The ,C1v11 T 'aa was an era Of giants.
iments: t was the age Of our great
Lee and among these men Lincoln lived
stands forth a master among men, one
of the five supreme statesmen Of all his
tory. In this scene, which the hand Of
there are men sitting before me whose
hearts beat as true to preserve the Union
as Grants or Lincoln's And wives and
ehilaren at home With pat nn;1hs1 IKE ,d
ships and cruelty Of war.
The hand Of the historian has pictur-
ed in graphic style the return Of the north
march. the nations honors cleaning on
their brow. But with this, there was
broken health and few of the best
Hea foes Eas another
| went home with a lost cause and broken
health:
and sadness over the lapse Of IS years
| which speaks of the progress of the
greatest nation under the sun. The full
hllment of scripture you sea nation
shall be born in day. Many q mother,
brother and sister weeps today for
face upturned to southern sky. A
that never shall be seen again. But the
| cause of God and humanity are rolling
! on and they helped to work It out. In
Children and youth that the Civil war
| was raised about the slave. AS a mat.
ter of fact, slavery was the occasion OF
the war but not the cause. Slavery was
the sulphur match that exploded the
powder magazine.
The Civil war vas really fought Layer oyer
the, question whether nation conce1v conceived
manently endure. During this testing,
many forms of secession were planned.
m mn if' on in south Carolina and President
Jackson put down the rebellion over the
tariff. Then Daniel Webster marked out
final lines Ct eatte f VcKs
burg and shook out the folds OF the pan 1
ner that was crimson with blood at Get
tysburg. Later the strife entered INTO
politics and Douglas and Lincoln strug-
gled for the supremacy, Of their prlnc1-
pies. Right has ever had to fight its
way from the cradle of mans infancy to
the grave But right the day must win.
fought by the ballot box Sunday OBJ
servance; the marriage laws; the princl-
Youth. the happiness Of the home. the
bartered rights of childhood and widow
hood as we'll as the rights of God; Let
us guard we'll our personal liberty,
9 ooIsmt a may rg'o our land be bright
with freedoms holy. light
! Great God our King
Character in soldier, in statesman, in
minister, in people, can only preserve our
Union. Fame, numbers, wealth, heated
lambition alone without right and God.
pathway of man. Character and trust
in God is the verdict Of the Eternal
JUDGE. For at last it is true of both
Of memory stretching from everv battle
field and patriots grave and hearth stone
all :pyer this fair land: shall swell :o up
triufnphs Of sthe past which make us
great, and in the loss Of the brave and
the true which broke the fond hearts. OF
weeping children for papa and weeping
wives and mothers. God wipes away the
tears todav, with his own, hand and
points to the summer land where the
song: birds dwell and the heart grows
stronger and where the immortal a deaa
bloom. not on the bosom Of the grave,
but by the ffvers Of water forever mUfe.
=" The war drum throbs no longer,
And the battle flags are furled,
In the parliament OF man,
The federation of the world"