The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1919-10-10
Church Service Well Attended,

Church Service Well Attended.
| The closing Sunday of the church
year Of the Methodist was celebrat.
ed by special service, which was
altogether fitting for the occasion.
The service flag Of the church,
which contains 36 stars, was demo.
bilized, signifying that all of the
boys who went fro the church
have returned. The flag now COM
pleted, contains two silver stars,
for men who were wounded in
battle and one star for Red Cross
Nurse, Miss Marjorie Mcpherson.
There is not one gold star as all
of the boys returned.
Mayor Thad Fuller gave the ad-
dress Of the evening, after being
introduced by appropriate remarks
by Pastor Calfee. The quartet gave
a song, and the song which took
part in practical ly every gathering
while the war was on. Keep the
Home Fires Burning" was sung by
the congregation. Mayor Fuller 8
address in part was:
We are gathered together here
tonight for a purpose, that of CIV
ing the boys who went from this
church a welcome hack to it.
w ords are small and insignificant,
deeds are what count. The fact
that we are here is deed which l
sincerely hope will only be the start
Of many such gatherings for the
boys. They are not boys any more
however. They went from US as
such, but they came back as men.
Men, filled with great experience,
taught the value Of service and
ready TO grasp and grapple with the
problems which we are now facing.
| cannot begin to tell of the horrors
they have been thru because | can
not grasp the facts. | have been
told time and time again. but the
experience is the only thing which
can fully give to a man the change
which they have had. They have
done nobly, as we all know and have
said before. But they have come
back to task which they are now
better able to handle, that of right
ing the conditions Of today which
seem to be so frightfully wrong.
They have been unsettled and have
had to have playtime, but now |
know that they will get into the
stride and march forward, as they
did for those long months. for JUS
tice and democracy. We have
every evidence that there is plot
nationwide to overthrow the pres
ent government and to establish a
chaos such as we see in almost every
foreign country. 1t is no wonder
that we feel the effects Of the
breaking up Of the Kingdoms and
the falling of crowns and govern
ments, but we must keep our
country from going likewise.
1.-The service flag now is an en-
blem. An emblem is useful in that
it is memory, a memory of what
those sons of ours did and more
than that, what the fathers and the
mothers of those sons did when they
sent their sons into the fight.
Those two great memories we have
with us. Now it is a service flag
of ours, pledge which we must re-
deem, that we must serve them and
our country for which they fought.
We must help them, grant them
every privilege, and give them the
honor for which they fought. They
will now assume the problems and
fight the influences for the bad just
as effectively as they fought the
Huns. The strikes, the riots, the
workings Of the |. w. w. and other
organizations, are menace to the
governments and to the social con-
ditions and are great problems.
But we have unlimited confidence
in our men and we know that they
are now prepared to grapple with
them in measure that will be en-
tirely successful. 1t is my wish
and my hope that they will con-.
tinue in the ways they have been
going. straightforward and true,
that the service flag which will
hang in your church will be q con-
slant and beautiful emblem of
Service"
BrittOn Sentinel Under New
Management.
F. T. Shepard. formerly editor Of