Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-06-01
MEMORIAL sun.
PRESB. CHURCH

Memorial Sunday services were
held in the Presbyterian church. The
United Spanish war veterans and
American Legion of the Baraboo
camps attended with their auxiliaries
and were seated in the center of the
church.
Mrs. A. Oh. Reisz presided at the or
gan Miss Frances Jones and chorus
sang Land of Mine" Commander
Kradwell read the Memorial day Sc
lection sent out by National Comman.
der MacNider. Chaplain E. c. Henke
preached the sermon which follows
in part:
Again Memorial Day. Time is always
with us but we are sweeping on, get
ting older and with it shall we say
wiser and shall we pray better
The war is over some say. They
would have us forget, forget the eau
ses, the purpose, the guilty, the cost,
the brave ones who died and what
they died for. Memorial Day stands
for memory, gratitude, conservation,
patriotism and brotherhood. II is
this that we all may remember, what
our privileges have cost. and how our
rights were gained.
We welcome you this morning vet.
Grams of two wars and your associate
auxiliaries. Together we bow our
heads in prayer to Almighty God for
our country and our world.
The scripture is from the First
Corinthians lit Lest the Cross of
Christ Should Be In Vain"
You see the Savior's cross is the
model for those crosses, little white
ones, that mark the resting places of
the boys whose bodies are in France,
England and Belgium. 30,473 Ameri-
cans rest in eight cemeteries over
seas. The cross is the testimony TO
a great faith, that moved great forces
anu ideals that brought them there
and glorifed their heroism when they
fell
Our nation has had a stormy career
in its short history. Big principals
have been fought for, big ideals work
ed out, great enterprises begun:
1776 the Revolutionary war
1912 war in defense of liberty
1849 protection of territory
1861 preservation of the union,
freedom Of the slave
1898 the Spanish-American war
1917 that democracy might be safe
for the world
All Of these are blue Inns in the
chain Of history, come :eC following
logically as developments warranted
them
The world has come a long way
down the line to the present time
when we shall not only believe but
know that the cause of one is the
rause for all; that we are now in a
world united together.
Rev Henke went on and reviewed
the results Of he great struggle and
closed with a poem A monument for
the soldiers.
AMERICA FOR ME
o London is a mans town, there's
power in the air;
And Paris is a womans town, with
flowers in her hair
And its sweet to dream in Venice.
and its great to study Rome;
But when il comes to living there is
no place like Home.
So its home again, and home again,
America for me
MY heart is turning home again, and
there ] long TO be,
In the land Of youth and freedom be-
yOnd the ocean bars
Where the air is full of sunlight and
the flag is full of stars.
] know that Europe's wonderful. yet
something seems to lack;
The past is too much with her, and
the people looking back
But the glory Of the present is to
make the future free
We love our land for what she is
and what she is to be.
o. its home again. and home again,
America for me,
want a ship that's westward bound
10 plough the rolling sea
To the blessed land of room enough
beyond the ocean bars.
Where the air is full of sunlight and
the flag is full of stars.
The church was decorated with
American flags and had a centerpiece
of the flags Of the allies.
Services were also held at the
Methodist church and the Civil war
veterans, Sons of Veterans and their
auxiliary attended these.