Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-01-24
will one day chant the gIories Of the
Marine, the Somme, Cambria and Yer.

"hi ohV ody SHdut me SlOT16S OF thu
Marne, the Somme, Cambria and Yer
dun.
Today they float out to he breeze
along a winding battle line, amid thu
smoke and earthquake of a great con
met. We see their sun-kissedl folds
at eVentide being lowered over the hur
rled graves of three American sol
dlers who gave their lives in SUNNY
france. God bless our FLAG!
Why Did They Go?
And this Service Flag! Thirty-siz
stars and thirty-six men. Whence
came they? Whittier are they going
Why did they go? How are they Ie
return :? Solemn and great questions
for us to think upon today.
What of the rest of us? Men who
remain are as brave as those who
have gone. Citizenship involves sery.
ice at home and on the farm, the same
as at the front. What of the par
ents? What of our religious life
Have we crucified the religion of our
childhood? Have we murdered the
ialth OF our youth? Where is our an
cnorage today? So many of US are
hanging on by the tingertips. We
have no vital and constant religious
lie. We have no earnest, wholesome,
enthusiastic relation to the Church.
THESE boys Of ours have vastly more
OF religious service than many OF us
who remain at home.
Oh! friends, we must keep I'D with
our own boys. We must keep the
altar fires burning here at home. God
will require of us an answer to our
stewardship. The Church is our larg-
er family home. Here we get to.
gether. Here we learn to love one
another. Here we talk it all over.
Let US begin on this great day. Let
us enter heartily into the program and
activities OF the Church.
Simon the leper, Judas Iscariot, the
complaining disciples, the other
guests, the patient Master, Mary, the
glyer OF the ointment-where do you.
and come in? Find yourself in that
llttle dinner party this morning.
A Righteous Crusade.
In the titanic world war CONNER
cialism may have had a large part.
was greatly to blame for.
the reign of terror projected out of a
clear sky. Race prejudice
was at the root of European society,
like a cancer at the yitals of a man.
Secret and lying diplomacy for a hun
bred years made possible the intrigue
and suspicious felt by all nations
the war opened. But France
IS fighting for her very life. Belgium
was foully assaulted and hacked to
pieces for defending her women and
children. England came to the de-
of Belgium, only after every ap-
peal to Germany for justice had fail
I'd. Now it is u war.
The conflict shakes the whole
world. Nations are passing away and
nations are being born. There is
room for the doubter, no room for
he Stacker, no room for the disloyal,
10 room for the straddler. AS yet we
only at the edge. Wonderful daysti
If suffering and of awakening are
head of US. Wonderful days of hero
SIN and of resurrection are ahead Of
is. The Via Dolorosa is TO be out
tide of every village and city in thei
and, il the war continues, The honorl
oils will be sadly broken but never
will one star be lost. The blue stars
nay change to gold but only the trail
or can lose his star from its place.
We may have many more stars but
lot one less than the thirty-six, for
do not enlist, as did these !
men, fathers, sons. brothers of the
,eople here worshipping God today {,
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