The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-06-16

the educators of patriots. The church
is not an institution Of any party. In
her must centre all the great forces.
Oh, how God is calling upon the
church today to save the nations. 1.-THE
Kings business requires haste" The
names of George Washington. Abraham
Lincoln. the Anniversary Of Independ-
ence and Decoration Day, will never
disappear from American history
! Though the old bood-stained roll
will waste. this service will perpetuate
| itself SO long as the principles for
which our comrades died are cherished.
This organization will soon be gone.
| Every form. once clothed in blue.
| will have passed from our sight; and
no children of soldiers can close the
wasted ranks. no breadbox nor marble
slab will then mark the graves of SOL
diers. Gettysburg and Arlington will
be alive to other interests; while angels
look in vain for forms. and cease to
whisper. "FIe was loved" But the SER
vice will live when these cheeks are
pale in ashes. Comrades, do not be
satisfied with your discharge, and your
G.. A. r. badge honorable as they are;
but live such a life. that when the
stars fall, and the rivers cease to sing.
you will hear the welcome call: Come
UP Higher
During severe gale. some years
ago. at Portland. Me. the cross was
blown from the Catholic Cathedral. and
hundreds-yes thousands-rushed to
guard it. that no unsanctif1ed hands
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not unchristian hands disgrace the
land you have helped make sacred.
"Thy saints. in all this glorious war.
Shall conquer. though they die;
They see the triumph from affair
BY faith they bring it Nigh"
"When that illustrious day shalt rise.
And all thine armies shine.
In robes of victory through the skies.
The glory shall be thine"
The difficulties that confront us to-
day are infinitely greater than those of
early times. Let us rid ourselves of
the idea. that all that is necessary to
do is to pass the right law. and that
everybody will Immediately become
prosperous and happy. More than one
nation has been led astray by this
mirage. Poor deluded Russia believed
it. and today her Industries are scrap
ped, her cities depopu1ated. and her
people starving. The lessons af patti
ence must be learned and remembered.
Fellow Citizens 1t is more than a GEN.
fury since the soldiers of the revolu-
ton knelt upon the sacred soil and
pledged their lives and their sacred
honor to the Declaration OF Independ-
ence, and marching forward sealed
their oaths with their blood 1t is
more than a half century sin1e treason's
shot at Sumter brought to its feet
mightier Army.
Then in 1898, as lovers of liberty. as
children of this common birth-right,
we proved ourselves worthy sons of
noble sirs, by extending a helping hand
to poor down-trodden. oppressed and
prosecuted Cuba. And when the ILL.,
fated ship. the Lusitania. carried with
it to the bottom of the ocean ia AM
erican souls to satisfy the cravings of
bruta1ized hell-hounds of all civiliza-
ton. the sorrows and sacrifices in
Freedoms Gethesemane are still fresh
with us. Seventy-two thousand loyal
sons have been left in France forever,
and they will never come back to Ann
erica.
That flag for which these dead fought
tipif1es all that is great in human ac-
ton; all that is grand in human
thought. and represents the last and