Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-31
HOLLAND GIVES
fine ADDRESS
PASTOR OF METHODIST CHURCH
OF CEDAR FALLS MEMORIAL
DAY ORATOR.
ON PRESENT WAR
IN CONNECTION WITH PAST
Pays Respects to Disloyalty in No IN
certain Way, and Pleads For New
Type of Moral Patriotism-Emphas
ICES Need Of Nationa! Unity. zone
People, One Patriotism, One Aim"

Clearing skies Thursday afternoon
permitted the program planned for the
soldiers home to be carried out as
arranged. Following the march to the
| cemetery, with the usual ceremonies,
! and the unfurling of the post flag at
the main flag staff, the march was
then continued to the home grove
| where a memorial program was given
| before a large audience.
The program was opened with the
singing of America" by the choir of
ST. Paul's Episcopal church, in which
the audience joined Chaplain H. O
Pratt then gave the invocation, after
| which the choir sang the Battle
Hymn of the Republic" Command
ant B c. Whitehill introduced Rev. j
W. Holland pastor of the Methodist
church at Cedar Falls, the speaker OF
the afternoon.
Rev. Mr.. Holland proved very in
teresting and forceful speaker, and
presented his subject in manner
rather out of the rut of the usual
Memorial Day address. He was given
close attention and the address was
punctuated with frequent applause.
The speaker began his address by
reminding his audience that nothing
was so rational at such a time as the
honoring of our dead. and told how the
memory of Thermopylae had kept
Greece nationally alive for 500 years.
He-further reminded them that it was
not day of rejoicing. but rather one
for deeper conservation and greater
sacrifice
He said that on this da- we pay our
respects to Two classes--the boys
who came back, a battered phalanx
of the great army who fought for the
liberties of other men. And the boys
who had marched away for ninety
days and who never came back -
whose bones are dust. He drew a
vivid picture Of a visit to the great
national cemetery at Arlington, with
its 1900 soldier graves, 5000 Of which
are marked Unknown" and by an
apt illustration linked the tragedy OF
such a grave to an iowa home.
Touches on Present War.
The speaker then drew lessons from
the day and times as nc told of our
half century of peace, happiness and
prosperity; the cementins of the ties
broken BY civil strife and then of the
worlds peace suddenly broken by the
Prussian butcher who sprang at
the throat of an unprepared world He
reminded his hearers OF the nation
forbearance, the rape of Belgium. the
sinking Of the LuSitania. and the three
years of watcIlful waiting by our gov
ernment And then the call which
came from the oppressed. and was
quickly heard and responded to by thS
blue and gray. He paid his respects
to disloyalty in no uncertain way, and
declared that the time had passed
when a man could Insult the flag and
deserve its protection.
Need Of National Unity.
Rev. Mr. Holland emphasized the
TACT that the great bulwark OF our
country is the kind Of men we raise
to save our flag; that men are the last
and best protection, and the moral quail
ity of ctizenry the only hope of our
nation. He pleaded for a new type
Of moral patriotism. and declared that
the man who by immortality, renders
himself incapable of defending his
country, is a moral traitor. In con-
nection he told of $500 men being re-
| jected out Of 5000 in New York. He
warning against the dangers Of ire
| ligion; of placing the emphasis in the
wrong place. and urged his hearers to
remember that not corn, cotton, iron,
coal nor gold was king, but The Lord,
God of Hosts"
In closing he emphasized the great
need of national unfty-one people. one
patriotism one aim; that this is the
enc war that the good of the world
demands that we must win; that while
other wars were important, this is NOT
a national but a world crisis, and that
| we will win.
Brief words of comfort and encour-
agement to the members of the home,
| and especially the civil war veterans,
| brought the address to close.
i The home girls glee club then
sang, "Over There" and the benedic-
nroor,1pce6 nv Rev -