Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-05-26
DR.. Fife McCollum Jones
Delivers a Brilliant Me-
mortal Sunday Adj
MINI. dress.
AT METHODIST CHURCH
Church Filled With G. A, r.
And w. r. C. Present
AS Guests.

webster City yesterday paid her hOm-
age of respect to the memories of the
heroes of three wars and pledged anew
the belief that coming generations will
keep faith with those. who have builded
the foundations of the nation. 1t was
the annual Memorial Sunday and the
auditorium of the Methodist church
was filed with large congregation,
the members Of the G. A. R. and w. r.
c. being special guests. The address Of
the afternoon was an able effort by DR..
Eftie McCollum Jones.
The opening prayer was delivered by
Rev. Arthur Metcalf. Rev. Manson E.
Miller read the Scripture lesson and DR..
r. T. Chipperfeld pronounced the bene-
diction.
DR.. Jones took as her text well
known passage Of Scripture" THE path
of the just is as shining light that
shineth more and more unto the per-
feet day." The speaker devoted her
address largely to a discussion of the
lessons of history from spiritual
standpoint, developing in a wonderfully
illuminat ting way the two outstanding
points she made-that the people of the
earth walk by faith, following an ideal,
and that Christianity is just now dis
covering the central theme of the teach
ing of Jesus, the brotherhood of the
human race.
Veterans Of Three Wars.
4 The speaker called attention to the
fact that on this Memorial occasion,
we honor the veterans Of three wars
But despite the fact that men are liv-
ing who fought In three great wars as
Americans, we are a peace loving peo-
pie, not easily minded to draw the
sword Particular honor ON. this day
Is paid the veterans of the civil war,
but following these heroes have come
the veterans Of the Spanish-American
war and now are returning the men
from the greatest OF all wars, wearing
the laurels of the greatest strife the
human race has ever witnessed.
The answer to the fact that we honor
the living heroes of three wars, lies in
the statement that America is ma
ton devoted to ideals-her people see
visions and follow them-the great
heart of our people beats true when
the chords of human sympathy are
touched.
Memorial Sunday is time when we
pause in 1.-THE house of memory" We
cherish the faces Of those we can see
no more. We, love and cherish the as
sociation OF places connected with any
great experience. RecOllectiOns are pre-.
cious and every year adds fresh recol-
lectioas. We used to remember. on Me-
mortal Sunday Charlottesville, Get
tysburg, Lookout Mountain, vicksburg
and other big battles of the civil war;
Later, to these we added San Juan Hill,
Manila Bay, Santiago, etc. And now to
these we have added Chateau Thierry.
the Argonne, ST. Mihiel. To the thin
ming ranks of the Grand Army of the
Republic we have added the Spanish
American war veterans and the heroic
men who are returning from the world
war.
Cost OF Civilization.
.'PrOud?" asked, the speaker. OF
course we are proud and we marvel at
the manner in which our people have
met every crisis.
Think of the cost Of this thing we
call civilization. 1t is a continuous
struggle. The spirits of the men and
women of this country were born free
and it is the essence of our human ma
ture that we die If we must, but that
we shall not tolerate wrong" And
therein, the speaker believed, lay the
reason fof the beginning of all our
wars. History is q precious thing. A
year ago ut our Memorial service, a
great drive was on along the western
front and things were going badly with
the allies. But the speaker at that
time babe the people have faith that
justice and right would win And now
we see the accomplishment Of that
prophecy.
The peoples of the. earth walk large
IL by faith, and as a free people, we
have our. ideals. And we are fast COM
ing to learn that we are really discOv-
ering the thing which Jesus came to
teach-tbe brotherhood of the human
race. II we carry out ideals and keep
alive spiritual Brotherhood, day will
have dawned better than the world
has ever yet seen. From unity OF
spirit, will grow bond of peace.
Look to Future.
And as a nation we must face to-
morrow. We must look toward the fu-
ture. The foundation laid by the yeter-