Year: 1865

noble Baker at Balls Bluff, while rebe
flags were Haunting In sight of the Capi
| tol, and hard to perish as did the thou.
sands almost in sight of Petersburg ano
Richmond and victory just within thei1
grasp.


| When the thinned ranks of our bronzed
and weather. beaten veterans shall return
hOme-as soon they Will-when the daugh-
ters shall go out to meet their fathers and
the maid her lover-When the flags that
we have kept to stay up our hearts al
home shall go out to greet the flags OF
battle. When we ring our bells in one
grand jubilee all over the land, many of
our heroes will not hear it they will not
come to join in the great thanksgiving
They sleep upon the bloody fields of Shi-
loh and Chicamagua, at Fredericksburg
and Gettysburg, at Charlottesville in the
Wilderness and along the James River
up to the very gates of Richmond But
we shall remember to do them honor.


Of rebels, he is the most fortunate who
fell first in the contest, he most wretched
who has outliyed his country For the
first days of the Confederacy were the
most glorious, then their arms were tri-
umphant, their battles were victories
whole States leaped into rebellioni ina day
We covet not revenge of a General who



sertiOn and by battle until he has nothing
left him but his rank. Nor of President
whom the world will hold accountable for
starving thirty thousand men in Southern
prisons who had fallen into his hands by
the fortunes of war The man cursed by
his own people, forsaken by his Congress
and flying for safety from his Capitol. To
them, there is the loss of all without re-
compense.


But it becoms us to be not too jubilant
over fallen foe. Besides that of personal
sacrifice, there is another lesson to be
learned atthe cross-the lesson of forgiUe-
ness. While finishing the work of re-
demption, amid the agonies of crucifxion
Christ prays for his enemies. # the Ma
tiOIe IS SGUed 10e can forgive


There are many innocent sufferers in
the South Union men-old men and
boys, have been hunted by bloodhounds
and driven at the point of the bayonet in
to the rebel army. Starving families of
innOcents by thousands, are calling for
bread. A helpless people, four. million
in number, have been ground between
the upper and neither millstones of the
war, to whose praise be it spoken, they
have never betrayed Union soldier
Making common cause with us in the
struggle, they have fought manfully-if in
spite of the fugitive slave law we have
aided their fugitives flying nerthward for
freedom at the hazard of life they have
repaid us by aiding our sons and brothers
in escaping from the horrors of Southern
prisons.


But the work of redemption is not yet
completed. Our worthy Executive has
shown extraordinary powers, surprising
all expectation, in welding our forces to
crush out the rebellion. A greater task
is before him, to heal the wounds of the
Nation. From his well known feelings of
humanity, his passing from couch to couch
taking dying rebels by the hands upon the
field at Antietam, his kind treatment of
prisoners Of war, amid the greatest provo
cations, gives friend and foe the assurance
that he viii be greater in peace than IN
war.


He has chastised the erring, he is now
to father the Nation, and in this work we
are all to bear part. IF rebels are to be
rebels still, if after their armies are ami
hilated their madness will not give place
to better reason, if they perish in burning
their own cities over the heads Of their
wives and children, blind to the miracles
that have been wrought in their midst let
them be pealed and scattered and let them
become kissing and a by-word among the
nations, but let the work all their own.


I have said some things that are not
uSudl u Il 1uu6IdI o4ScbAESG, DuJ IGllGul-
Der it is to the living and not to the dead
we preach.


That husband was once an active citi-
zen, useful member of your Church
That wife-a pupil of our school They
were called away from our midst to pub
lie duty. They died at their post. They
died in the Lord, and of all such by the
Authority Of inspiration we pronounce
blessed are the dead


We would remind those parents, already
passed the medium of life, that they have
new inducements why they should desire
to live. A delicate office precious
charge-two little orphan boys are left
you you are to care for their rearing,
Your work well done, they will be a joy
in your house, they will relieve you of the
tedium of life.


Other relatives are present. This
mournfui providence is an admontion to
set your house in order, for in such an
hour as you think not the Son of Man
cometh.


To US all, the life apd sequel of those
we commemorate is the lessen of Sacrifice


our FOREIGN RELATIONS.