Year: 1877

make the best soldiers OF the cross wht
start in the Christ life, not through ex
citement, not because some one else ha.
gone, but who start from principle-be
cause it is right in itself


5. In nearly all armies some turn
TRAITOR. Benedict Arnold was in com.
mand of the forts on the Hudson He
grew tired of the war. lie was offered
a sum of money if he would tetray those
forts into the hands of the enemy. He
accepted the bribe He makes good
his escape to England, but his life is
now wrecked beyond all recovery. The
English pay him the brbe money, but
even they can have no respect for such a
man. Disgraced at home and abroad,
he dies second edition of Judas Is
CARROT. You will find that a person
never gains anything by turning traitor
10 his honest convictions or principles
In hopes of the Presidency Horace
Greeley discards his life long principles
This lowered him in the estimation OF
both political parties.


OF those who turn traitor in the
cause of Christ it is said. "They cruoify
the Son of God afresh and put Him to
an open shame"


&. After the battle the ROLL GALL is
very affecting event. Name after
name is called and no answer Here p'
is heard. The boys who are left canuot
restrain the falling tear as they now
for the first time, perhaps, miss comrade
after comrade. But there is TO be a
grander roll call than any ever heard in
the armies Of Napoleon, Wellington,
a Grant or Lee. A soldier dying in
one Of our hospitals rose up in bed at
the last moment and cried Here
here !" The attendant placed him back
on bis bed and asked him why he cried
A." Here Oh, | heard the roll cali OF
heaven" he replied, "and I was only
answering TO my name |"


I. Then, after the war is over, the
soldiers enjoy their reunions. Those
who did not serve in the late war can
not estimate the value of such gather.
ings to the soldiers themselves. They
see faces that they had not seen for
years. They clasp hands once more
with old comrades. They rehearse the
story of the battle, the march, the camp,
the prison. But there is sad feature
about these meetings. Many an old
comvade does not meet with you He
is sleeping in the South, or was sent
home to be buried. The companies as
they organized anew at Four Mile Lake
the other day were not as they were
when at the commencement of the war
they marched out OF Paw Paw. Then
your company was full and the flag was
new and beautiful. Now you don't num-
Der so many; your ranks are thinned
The old flag is just as dear to you, but
it is rddled by shot and she'll aud min
ME ball and blackened with the smoke
OF battle. But Notwithstanding this sad
feature the reunion is joyful time for
the soldier.


Now, my friends, the veterans Of the
cross must one day have Reunion
We want to meet old comrades--the
companions of by.gone days. You want
to see that father, brother, sister, child
or friend want to see n mother who
many years ago | followed to her grave
1t does not seem right that time should
roll or forever without fnal reunion.
\ mother in New York died, leaving a
little child that was just beginning to
talk The friends took the child 70 a
neighbors, and did not let it know that
its mother was dead The day after the
funeral the child, when brought home,
went from room to room, up stairs and
down, without saying word. | t seemed
to guess that all was not right. After a
while some one asked "What are you
looking for % The reply game " 1 am
looking for mamma. 1t don't seem like
home unless mamma is here" Who
has not at times felt like that child. 1t
does not seem like home since that lov'd
one left you. The world has lost its
charm. But wait, my friends, until the
war of life is ended, wait till the sword
is sheathed, the drum is silent and the
bugle sounds no longer. Then in one
glad reunion shall loved ones assemble.
They come from the four quarters of the
globe. They come from the eternal
SHOWS of the north, from the palm trees
of the tropics and from the islands of
the seas. Ask this great multitude
whom no man can number whittier they
are going, and as one man they reply :
" The time of Reunion has come, and,
as veterans of the cross, we are going
home" And then from the eternal
world there sounds voice: These are
they that have come up through much
tribulation and have washed their robes
and made them white in the blood OF
the lamb" And then almost immedi.
ately the same voice speaks to each one
of the heroes Well done thou good
aud faithful servant. Enter thou into
the JOY Of thy Lord"


Pre@ale1 Ia the Discinlo Church. Paw Paw,
SUNDAY evening. .Inue 2ata. 1917. ana reViSed