The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-05-28
PREACHED STRONG
SERMON TO SOLDIERS
REV. WAYNE S. SNODDY DELIV-
Erred SPLENDID ADDRESS
TO VETERANS SUNDAY

The veterans of the civil, Spanish.
American and world wars were
guests Of the Presbyterian church
at special services held for them last
Sunday. Rev. Wayne S. Snoddy, the
pastor, delivered sermon of much
merit to the veterans. Lack of space
forbade it being printed before. II
follows:
s'This day shall be unto you for a
memorial" Elk. 12-14.
For more than fifty years Memoir
al Day exercises have been conducted
under the auspices and direction of
the Grand Army of the Republic in
nearly every city and hamlet and vii
lage throughout our land. In this
way the veterans Of that great war
have kept their comrades in loving
memory. We of the present genera
tion must take up their task and pre-
serve forever that heritage they have
so richly requested. And so all over
the land today the American people
are assembled under the holiest i'm
pulses of the human heart to honor
these men who offered their lives
that the nation might have a new
birth of freedom to guarantee forever
that democracy should not perish
from the earth.
I am not much given to sentiment
al display and the well spring OF my
enthusiasm seldom gushes, but | have
great respect and honor for these men
who wear the little bronze button
which is the symbol of the Grand
Army of the Republic. Had it not
been for their sacrifice and devotion
and courage, this flag we love would
have been nothing but dishonored
rag. Had not these men offered their
lives for it's protection, the Declara-
ton of Independence would be today
but an antiquarian relic; the constl-
tuition of the United States would
be as lifeless as the laws OF the
medes and the Persians. Bunker Hill
and Ticondiroga and Yorktown, with
all that is inspiring in our history and
all that is respondent in our national
life would be but sentences IN the
school book like legends of the ma
tions that are dead. These. heroes
constituted the first line of democra-
cy's defense. Had that line of the
Cos been broken, America could never
have interposed herself against the
Hun, and civilization would have been
in ruins at this present hour. Shiloh
and Gettysburg and The Wilderness
were as vital to the allied cause as
the Somme and The Marne.
It is but poor memorial to re-
count their valor and strew wltherlng
flowers upon their graves. The high,
est honor we can pay these heroes and
patriots is by being true men-lOO
per cent Americans-fa up
holding the principles of justice and
liberty for which they fought: The
flower of noble manhood and pure
womanhood is the token by which our
appreciation must be shown. Loyal
patriotism is the most fitting recon-
pense we can give. The truest patrl-
OF is he who gives the best manhood
to his country True manhood can
only be built on the precepts of the
word of God and the example of Je-
sus Christ Christlike men and wom-
en- are our country's greatest need
today-men and women who will live
by the ten commandments and the
Golden Rule-men and women who
will uphold morality and religion and
labor under the inspiration of the
ideals of the Kingdom of God.
The great European war has added
yet a new meaning to Memorial Day.