The Holt County sentinel. (Oregon, Mo.) 1883-1980, 1921-08-26
BODY OF WAR HERO LAID AWAY


too horrible for words. OF homes pill
laged and plundercd and burned TO the
ground, Of the shamefully mutili.ed
bodies Of the future scns Of the cvuu.
tries across the sea.
But finally the time came when we,
a. nation Of liberty loving, Col
fearing reoplc coal no longer slInd
aside and countenance such inhuman
acts as these. Aud ~ the United
States, champion Of tho rights Uf
Peoples, the Judge OF Nations, realiz-
ing the terrible ,ituntion, rallied her
sons about her and once more took Up
her arms a. the Defender Of Liberty
and Justice.
We entered the great conflict to win,
aud this end was Inevitable. And here
God stepped In with Hig great lesson
Of sacrifice.
First-Vast sums Of money must be
spent In increasing our army and navy.
Second-All Of our luns had to ~
altered to fit In with tie great war
program.
Third-And We had to learn to liks
the thing We had TO do. rather than
do the thing that We liked.
And then We had 10 learn the great
lesson that might can never make
right.
Xcrxes, the Persian King, invades
Greece with two million men and four
thousand ships Of war, the representa-
tives Of forty-nine allied nations.
Awaiting him IN the mountain passes
is bare seven thousand men including
Leonidas with his brave three hundred
Spartans, In the pass at Thermopolae.
With their backs to the wall, fighting
for their homes, this little handful of
men repcl for days and days this over
whclming force Of barbarians.
In the naval battle Of the coast OF
Salamis, the mighty fleet Of Nerxes,
four thousand vessels, Is defeated by
the Greeks with only two hundred and
se,eaiy. one battle ycsscls and the
" tie Greek nation has learned that the
battle Is not to the strong.
And Belgium! Poor, heart broken,
bleeding Belgium, standing for days
and days between the host OF devils in
carnate that came thronging In from
across the Rhine, and France IN her
unpreparedness, England IN her UNI
willingness, and the rest Of the world.
But, thank God, she stood and car
ried on until help could come and even
though IL took u tremendous toll from
her In every way, the little Belgian
nation has learned that the battle IL
not to the strong.
God, the God Of Battles, knew that
the interests Of civilization would be
retarded by Persian victory, and
God, the same God Of Battles, knew
that the interests Of civilization would
in like manner be retarded by Ger
man victory for neither German nor
Persian were the civilizations to ad-
vance the principles OF righteousness
IN the world.
Fright forever on the scaffold,
Wrong forever on the throne,
But that scaffold sways the future,
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God amid the shadows,
Keeping watch above His own"
Might can never make Right, but
Right ever makes Might.
But the saddest lesson Of all that we
were TO learn was that life must be
sacrificed In order that Gods plan for
the world could be brought to pass.
Gods actions are always difficult for
men to understand. For We forget
that His Being Is so infinite and far
above ours that II would be hopeless
for us to try to discern His intentions.
And that is well, { + IL not, then lie
would not be a God. That is why we
are left to conjecture so much about
death. To US II has been the most
terrible fact In all creation and II has
ever filled our hearts with dread But
death to the soldier Is not so terrible
as we would think.
have stood by the side of hundreds
Of them who passed from this life,
while In the service of the country
they loved, and have never yet seen
single one of them who was not
ready to die cheerfully and gladly as
they gave up this life for the thing
that they believed TO be right.
Nearly all Of them came to the rea-
lization that death was not only
possible but highly probable and 1t
was the most natural thing In the
world for them toprepare for the un-
known future. ~
Why are men - ready to lay down
life for principlsf -Answer-Because
God made them 20,
God has filled man with the three
attributes-Faith, Hope and Love.
And the greatest a these Is Love.
"And greater love hath no man than
this, that he lay down his life for
his friends" -
That Is what Abraham Lincoln did.
That is what William Mckinley did.
That Is what Jesus Christ did. And
because this is true, such unselfish
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