The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1919-05-30
SERVICES FOR SOLDIERS
ME- MORTAL SERMON PREACHED
BY REV. G. A. CAHOON
TRIBUTE is PAID HEROES
Song and Musical Part of the
Program Was An Inter-
esting Feature
Memorial day as an opportunity for

Memorial day as an opportunity fol
people ito show recognition of what
God has done for this nation in the
| great wars that have been fought
! was the predominant spirit expressed
/ in the memorial sermon delivered by
Rev. G. A. Cahoon Sunday afternoon
| at the Baptist church. Rev. CahOon
declared that Memorial Sabbath,
while time to honor the heroic dead
of past wars and to pay tribute to
the living heroes of those struggles
it was more day to give thanks to
God for the aid and assistance he had
been in aiding this nation in the four
great wars in which it had been
engaged.
Tribute to Veterans.
Tribute was paid to the veterans
of the Civil war, the Spanish Ameri-
can war and those veterans Of the
great world war, just ended, who were
present. To the "Sisterhood of Mer-
cy," the members of the Women's Re-
lief corps, who were present, Rev.
Cahoon also paid tribute
The G. A. r. veterans and members
of the w. R. C. with their banners
occupied the pews on the left of the
church during the service. Special
decorations had been arranged for the
occasion.
Musical Numbers Rendered.
Musical numbers were rendered by
chorus composed Of Mrs. Evan
Hughes, Miss Cornelia Mansfield,
Judge Evan Hughes, Frank .Crandall,
F. d. Sleight, Harold SLIDER, and
Glenn Shoemaker. Special numbers
were also given by quartet COM
posed of Judge and Mrs. Evan
Hughes, Miss Cornelia Mansfield and
Frank Crsndall and by male quar-
tet composed of Judge Evan Hughes.
Glenn Shoemaker, Harold SLIDER and
f. ID. Sleight.
Rev. T. Ross Paden of the Presby-
terrain church had charge of the open
ing of the services.
Sermon BY Rev. cahoon.
The sermon of DR.. G. A. Cahoon
follows in part:
Across the face of this day might
well be written, In Memory Of for
1t is tribute to our honored and
heroic dead. Though it is not alone
memorial to men but also remem-
brance of God. For Samuel but
emphasized great truth in the long
ago when he raised stone of me-
mortal, saying, Hitherto hath the
Lord helped us!' Our greatest me-
MORALS are not in the monuments that
we build but in the memories that we
cherish. Among our most cherished
memories as people we recall the
heroism of the men of '61 and '65. to-
gether with those of the Spanish
American War and the men of tie re-
cent worldtwar in khaki and blue who
sleep in homeland and overseas.
Memorial Day and the Memorial Sab
bath pay tribute alike to the men of
three wars.
Help Of the Lord.
1.-THE help of the Lord has been
granted us not because it happens
that we are mixed up in some of the
great struggles of history, put be-
cause in spite of frequent blunders
and mistakes we have sought as
people to maintain high principles
and harmonic with divine ideals.
God helps men and nations by first
throwing them back on their own re-
sources, and also back upon Himself.
We have come to the point in every
great war where we have been com.
PEELED to recognize our dependence
upon God, having done the best we
could. The Lord helps nations with
the friends that he gives them. In
the Revolutionary war we had France
Tor friend; in the Civil war Russia: in
the Spanish American war England
was with us in spirit; while in the
World war Italy forsook those who
expected her support and threw in a
force of four millions of men. first
and then on the side ,of the allies.
What might have been the conse.
quences if those four millions had
been counted on the side of our foes?
Hope and Cheer.
The Lord hath helped us to bring
nope and cheer to the world in dis
tress. During the months of the past
year the altar of the chapel in the
cathedral at Rouen is said to have
been flag -draped. There were the
nags OF Belgium, France and Italy.
Wnlle IN the center was placed your
nag and mine, the Stars and Stripes.
1t was indeed significant. For when
the French people knelt at the altar
to pray, rising from their knees their
eyes fell first upon the flag o. freedom.
the hope of the world!
How the Lord hath helped us. and
how much that help has been. is
brought to mind in the Hohenzollern
and Junker dream. of easily entering
Paris. And after Paris it is believed !.
their purpose comprehended entering
London, Mexico. Canada and our own
capital city on the Potomac. So much
for the dreams of these super men
as they fondly believed themselves
to be.
Scene Was Dramatic.
The Germans entered Paris only
the other day and the scene was dra-
matte, even tragic, for these men of
German blood. Six men represented
the once proud and arrogant nation
that had defied the world. They
were without swords or military dec
ofatlons, clad in sombre black and
walked amid deathly silence to six
chairs reserved for them, there to re-
celve sentence for their nation at the
hands OF the nations they had scorn-
Ell, while the eyes of the world were
turned that way. 1t was a veritable
judgment day and while GERMANY
calls the terms cruel, the world re-.
membering the havoc. that she has
calls them just"