Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-01-24
Service Flag Unfurled at the
First Methodist Episcopal Church


beautiful windows. Christian sent
ment demands it,--that is why.
Sentiment Colors All We Do.
Sentiment colors all we do. Yo
write letters upon linen paper instea
i of yellow scratch paper. You bu
pictures for the home, and by? Yol
cannot eat them, you cannot wea
them! Why send flowers to the sick
flowers instead of money and quin
ine2 Why visit the old home bacl
in Wisconsin or Illinois? Why selec
books that have a pleasing bindin,
/, and beautiful illustrations? Becaus,
sentiment gives springtime warmth
and cheer to what would otherwise b.
a dreary, desert world. The season.
testify to the sentiments of the All
mighty.
Why is Eugene Fields poem, Little
Boy Blue, such a heart-moying mas
terpiece? Why do mothers cherish
those tiny, ragged, misshapen shoes
those bullying trousers whose irreg
ular ines after many years still
speak ieloquently of the busy rest
less, precious body wont to wear
them?
J. tofS lSdb ffoIho bCIdIot
he is the poet of the World Beauti.
full, In his Ode on limitations of I'M
mortality ne describes the tragedy of
the man who had lost sentiment out
of his life:
There was a time when meadow,
grove and stream,
The earth and every common sight,
To me did seem
| Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a
dream.
1t is not now as it hath been of yore:-
Turn wheresoe'er | may.
By night or day,
The things which | have seen | now
can see no more.
The rainbow comes and goes.
and lovely is the rose.
The noon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are.
bare.
Waters on a starry night
Are beautiful and fair:
The sunshine is a glorious birth;
But yet / know, where'er l 60,
That there hath passed away a glory
from the earth"
He has the same simplicity of deepl
sentiment and confidence in God in
his story OF the little girl playing in
The churchyard:
How many are you, then. said /,
If they w are in heaven?
Quick was the little maids reply,
O Master, We are seven!
But they are dead. those two are
dead.
Their spirits are in heaven!
Twas throwing words away; for still
The little maid would have her win,
And said, NAY. we are seyen!"
Sentiment brings US together at|
Holy Communion. where we partake
of the precious symbolism of the Last
Supper. Sentiment makes marriage
more than a mere civil contract. Sen
timent d~eeorates the house, invites
the friends, makes a feast.
Sentiment in American History.
Sentiment caused the Boston Tea
Party; sentiment made Lincoln a
statesman instead of a backwoods
rail splitter. AS a lad he brought the
whole world in tribute at his feet,
before the rude fireplace of his log
cabin in the wilderness. Sentiment
brought Mckinley to the aid Of suf-
fering Cuba. Sentiment drove Paul
the desert of Arabia. SENTIMENT
held the Children of Israel for hun
dreds OF years. as they thought about
the wonderful deliyerance in the will
derness and out of bondage. Sentil
ment has made our flag a holy thing
instead of just a. piece of colored
cloth. The red tells of blood. RICH
and brave and willing, to flow in all
Just cause. The white tells of purity
and simplicity. Blue is the symbol
of the sky, vast and clean and lifet
giving.
have stood with uncovered head
before the tattered ensigns Of the
Civil War. They embodied the princi.
pies OF that heroic struggle withinI
our nation, foa the preservation oil the1
union and the emancipation OF thel
black man. The Stars and Stripes
speak today to every nation. / hopel
one day to see them floating with curl
allied flags over Jerusalem, an inter-
national city, belonging to all nations,
the city Of refuge for the children Of
Israel. hope to see the day when
the Stars and Stripes will never float
over a single rum ship bound for AT
ricanl ports, OF oyer a single rum shop
within u own land. The only time
4 ever feel like tearing down$the flag
~ when see It displayed In some
saloon.
The Stars and Stripes are accorded
an honored place within our beauti
fulgsanctuary. They have every right
TO he here. They embody the best
spf citizenship the nobIest government
on the planet, They stand forsChrfs-
tian equality and Justice among an.
men; for sympathy and compassion
unto the oppressed ana program ~
decentralization that shall elimtnates
the oppression. they speak TO w 3oflI
Lexington, Concord. Valley Forge.
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