The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-29
VETERANS HEAR
PASTOR PATRIOT
Men of 81 Gather AT Head
quarters and March To the
Baptist Church On
Sunday Evening.
SERVICE IS VERY INSPIRING
Eloquent Sermon BY the Rev. 7. w
Corey Takes Issue With General
Sherman and Sets Forth the
Blessings of War.

ne NSbcIdAS WoHt u cHufCH Oh 0u-
day evening. In obedience to orders
they gathered at the Grand Army hall
shortly after seven o'clock, formed in
double file and marched beneath the
Stars and Stripes to the First Bap-
tist Church at the corner of Church
and South streets. There was no music.
None was needed ,fhe veterans had
been real soldiers and kept the cadence
without either fife or drum to call
their step or give it tempo.
In their wake came the Woman =
Relief Corps led by their president,
Mrs. William A. Ohmsted. Many flags
gave color to the procession and left
man standing with DOTTED hats as the
parade moved slowly down the Main
street.
At the church special decorations
greeted the arrival Of the veterans.
The altar was draped with Old Glory.
Flowers and greenery suggested the
springtime Of youth in which they had
marched away to war, while an honor
roll beneath red, white and blue lights
was blazoned with the names OF the
men who had followed in their train =
IN the days Of IT.
| Following most appropriate music by
Mrs. A. M. Eckert and Hubert Nc
Clure, the Rev. +. W. Corey, pastor
patriot with two sons in the service,
delivered an inspiring sermon on the
theme "The God of Battles. = The
minister took his text from the 18th
chapter of Romans, verses 1884, which
read: GLOW unsearchable are His
judgments and His ways past finding
out! In elaboration Of this idea the
Rev. Mr.. Corey took issue with General
Sherman who is officially credited with
the famous statement "War is Hell. =
In part, said the minister, !" Gen
eral Sherman was right. War is hell;
but there is a possibility Of it's being
| 8 blessing in spite. Of all its atrocities
and horrors. God's~ways are strange
and war is one of the strange ways by
which he occasionally accomplishes sa-
cred ends.
AT times he went on, "storms
are needed to clear the atmosphere. Tt
lis Gods way. War y like that.
~ saw surgeon perform an opera
tion once. AS watched him work al
most ruthlessly I thought to myself:
Why all this cutting and slashings
But it wrought its cure and saved a
life for larger service. Tt was His
way, and war is like that.
why did God permit the Civil
war he continued more pertinently,
with brother against brother and faith
er against sonf III God s hand was in
that struggle there may be explanation
for our more recent holocaust. And
God s hand was in that struggle. Out
of it, thanks to the pension system,
there came new prosperity for the
victorious north and out Of it, too,
there came a new vision and a new
| life for the vanquished south. Out
of that war has come a blessing; for
| men who once stood with bavonets
pointed at each others breasts more
recently clasped hands and stood foot
| to foot and heart to heart in com
mon cause for common country.
In speaking of the world-war the
Rev. Mr.. Corey said:
Even the sinking of the Lusitania
with its shedding Of innocent blood had
its compensations, It aroused the
United States to realization of Ger.
many $ ruthlessness. and hurried her
inevitably toward war It was a dis
aster; it was horror; but it was God s
way Of waking up America and it has
helped to make world safe for de-
moeraey and Christianity.
Five years of war will bring
great ,eace.' the minister concluded.
l"The lesson Of the Civil war viii be
repeated. Out Of the blood of these
martyrs as from the blood of '61 viii
come a new freedom, a new goodness,
new parliament of men in world
saddened but sobered by suffering. y
At the conclusion of the service the
Rev. Mr.. Corey personally greeted each
Of the veterans and assured him that
he and mis- church were proud to have
been the hosts for the men Of '61 on
the Sunday before a memorable Mem
orial Day.