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lemorjal Day Was Celebrated lit Evanstoit Sunday When |(B. A,,R, Members Met at | F$Bt Baptist Church. ftfllR PREACHED SERMON Jlleito^rial Day waa celebrated in *lJjBfowstoft Sunday when members of tl»e John A. Logan Post of the G. A. J$£ matched to the First Baptist S|j|Hrchf$o attend the special services arranged for them. J^jto _the evening, at Delano chapel, Jflcpepli.^F. Ward, president of the lefty National bank, gave a memorial 'address on "Personal Experiences in liie Civ41 War." Mr. Ward's lecture jjras Illustrated and the large audi ence tnat was present ^e^tty^ap-' %te^j^J^^^^Xai and instroc- fe tape I The demise** of the Q. A. R. as- »emble* at the post room in the library, yeatera'as morning, before going to ^I^ehnrch. The procession was headed by mounted police and Troop ^Two of the local Boy Scouts, led by JBcoutmaster Clausen. IfAji excellent piograni was arranged the old soldiers and the church ||^.]Kiiwde*$?toh an .audience "eager & hel& the ^remaining few of the g^» in blue |»ay tribute to their de- ^ ceased comrades. â- ; ""» Jin Appropriate Sermon. ^ ;j Bev.l| James Madison Stifler had %jprenare<d an appropriate sermon for the observance of Memorial Day and f||£ veterans greatly appreciated the words of the minister. p, Despite the fine weather only twen- ||g^jre jbf' the members of the Grand Army were able to be present at the ^E^rciJ|s^ 'The thinning out of their J$jUlks since last year was very no- *|pfeMable. During the past year many :-'Of the members have died, while some Are at last breaking down under their pijtear8, and were unable to be on hand j||enterd!ay. IflllWlOWing is the sermon Mr. Stifler Addressed to the last of the old 'jSunrd:^ |jfe*I am sensible of the honor which __given me in being asked to take thle part in this Memorial service to _ jj cannot heh> but feel that everything about this occasion and thle day, unless it may be the weather, Is exactly sui&ble. It seems to ne; especially suitable that this day should be observed in the church of God, and it seems to be especially anitable that you should be accom- panied here by these boys. You rep- resent- those who have done the things^ of the past on which we â- tand^and these lads look forward things that we shall have" to ^"wa, in the future. Tou know what rou h|tve done; these do not know rhat fcney shall have to do, but they are ready. What Is the value of a I Memorial day? "Why should we go ^^§^tpt:,qpoe more the recital of things 'that Jfe already done and complete? fhe jjeeat things for which the G. A, JL ^aUjads, and in memory of which ^iw||M|d those here in honor are the prtnciile that the United States shall body< that the Union shall be The slaves have been om: these facts have been What mean these memorials?' Now Baltiino^^^Wi^ngton^^Meads L^st a moment to understand what army tuAed,in back of â- <»»* *£! Se occasion was. -The Hebrews had and cntW'hhr line of supplies. Lee Leen slaves- under Moses for forty felt surf that he could conauer any y^s they'nad wandered in the forcethlV Mee*^ and^ was ready wUderness" Now they have come to to give battle immediately. He dm the Jordan. The waters of the river not know the ground on which he Lave divided, and they have passed was. Neither did Mead. But one man ,gf Ifew Realize Heal Question. *fFew of us realise that the real gBfcgtinn at issue in the civil war was ir the United States should ex- laijona basis of state's rights or as central government; one na- one government, one ideal, things are an accomplished, need to come here any to talk about them. I take [we nr© here because the ideal spirit which accomplished are as necessary today t when you were hoys. .From any a«d from geneintion to th«; spirfl nevtfr^clungee. have s£ecte4 thjt twenty-first of tae fotmiL chapter of Jir this serrice, abaply as n over dry shod into the promised land The command had come to Joshua to Mead take twelve stones and build them up' on the spot where they first camped, build them up as a memorial. The reason why they should build them up was this: that in days to come, when their children should see this pile, this comparatively small pile of stones, washed smooth by the waters, and they should ask them: 'What mean these stones?' then they should tell them that 'the hand of Jehovah, that it is mighty, and that they should fear Jehovah their God for- ever.' "The surface of our land is dotted with memorials, which call to mind the mighty deeds of men. I shall never forget my emotion as I stood at Valley Forge, saw the very trenches that were dug by the hands of Washington's trpofls. In the center of theseJUT fetiches have grown great oak&^-lwo feet in diameter. 5tfi?€ "than a century has past, but still those trenches are there. Thank God that we have been able to pre- serve them exactly as they were. "See the monuments around Vicks- burg, at Gettysburg and many other spots. What mean these things? I am going to ask you this morning what they mean. I take it first that they mean that the hand of God works with the hands of men in bring- ing to pass human events. As our transports were leaving Key West on the opening of the Spanish war, an English officer who saw the con- fusion and the disorder and the lack of preparation, and saw how easy it would have been for a foreign navy to attack and destroy those trans- ports, turned to one of our officers and said: 'This is God Almighty's war or you would never get to Cuba.' "It is the little and apparently un- important events which decide the great historical events. No more re- markable instance of this is recorded in American history than the way in which the English soldiers scaled the Heights of Abraham and won the bat* tie before Quebec. General Wolfe's barges filled with soldiers were mov- ing up and down the river with the tide each day. The French general followed to keep them from landing. On this particular night, French de- serters told Wolfe that the French were expecting to float provision boats down to the city. Then Bou- gainville, the French general, coun- termanded the order. The sentries on the heights were told of the order, but not of the countermand, so they were expecting to see boats float by that night. The commander of the company keeping guard at the heights had permitted most of his men, Canadians, to go home and work at their harvesting on condi- tion, it is said, that they should after- ward work in a neighboring field of his own. Also, the commander, feel- ing sure nothing would happen, went to bed, and his weary soldiers, seeing the boats float by in the darkness, did not follow them. And, lastly, when the first group of twenty-four soldiers met the first sentry and were challenged in French, one of the officers, a Scotchman, answered in such excellent French as to put the sentry off his guard, who think- ing these were the men from the. pro- vision boats, let them pass without the password. So the English army gained the heights and won Quebec and gave to English civilization the whole North American continent Hooker's Resignation. "If we have the eye to see it, we may discover in the details of the great battle of Gettysburg a similar chain of events. Just a few days after Lee began bis invasion of Penn- sylvania, General Hooker resigned. Hooker was a man who could not get on with his generals. He was a military politician. General Mead, who was appointed in his place, was a man who was generally liked and who was'connected with no military clique. Head, with the army of the Potomac, crossed the Potomac rivej; somewhat east of Lee's line of march. GeneraJ Lee had almost reached Harrisburg, a little more and be would have captared the ieapital o? Peni»yr*Bnia, and 1m ^^ i. did know. Major Pleasanton. General had thought that he would fight at a place called Pipe Creek, some twelve miles south of Gettys- burg. Pleasanton knew that Gettys- burg was the place where the battle should be fought, as it gave an oc- cupying army an unrivalled position. With the cavalry, he therefore pre- cipitated the conflict there, and made it necessary that the battle should take place at Gettysburg. One by one the brigades of Mead's army were sent forward and stationed along the line of hills where the great battle was fought. General Sickles made an error in the place of his appointment, and drew up his soldiers a good deal in advance of the general line of battle. To General Siefetf's left stood Little Round Ton. If the enemy's army could gain a position on the top of this hill, he would be in a position to gain the battle at once. A military engineer, named Warren, went out for an in- dividual investigation, and saw the situation, and also saw that the Con- federates were commencing to climb up the hill in order to take the posi- tion. He hurried back and met two companies whom he directed to the top of the hill as fast as they could go. They arrived there just two minutes ahead of the Confederate soldiers and after a desperate battle maintained their position. And so it came about that because General Lee did not know the strength of the army in front of him, and General Mead did not know the exact situa- tion on which he was fighting, that Lee's army was beaten piece-meal be- fore he realized the situation in which he was. whom this Post is named, is one of the lesser known, but one of the most Interesting, characters of the, Civil War. Having attended Shiloh college in this state for a few terms, he en- tered political life as a Democrat, was a follower of Stephen A. Douglas, but when the war broke out, he es- poused the cause of the Union and became the leader of the Union forces in the southern part of the state of Illinois. General Grant es- teemed him one of his most capable and trusted officers, and the historian concludes the history of his life with this significant statement: 'In 1866 he resigned from the army, with an unimpeachable record for bravery, energy, skill and success.' "Another great message which that pile of twelve stones must have given to the Hebrews was a message of in- spiration to confidence and courage. | by his -father*, patriots who* ^ t age and the determination spotted and laefartjl things which have been by their; *tfMfiLg menace of a nation Is not without. Henftf Watd to say that the great struggle of United States of Ams^^4a^.|f^M^ the Revolution nor the Ottii Waft "^ the great testing time of the natiopi would come in the day of our projh perity. I do not believe thai *• thai) again be engaged in a great war with. a foreign nation. I am certain that never again shall we be engaged a war like that of 18«MWI^;.r fint f feel that we have entered upon | great economic struggle* the outcome of which no man can now see. Wei are today in need of patriots. We need patriotic lads in the yards of i * - m^nffo the school houses; we need patriotic This Memorial day is to us, .^message | «• need patriotic of inspiration to confidence and eiri" "» "«> .... .. courage. When God gave to the children land, He Was Significant,! "Is it not significant that this great battle was decided on July 4, and that on that same day Vicksburg sur- rendered to General Grant? It was the company led by General John A. Logan who first entered the city of Vicksburg and hoisted the stars and stripes upon the city hall. These two great battles and two great victories gained upon the same day, a day that has always meant so much to the American heart, gave such a thrill of confidence to the supporters of the Union that from that day forward the issue of the great conflict was never in serious doubt. (Here Mr. Stifler asked if any of the men in the troop before him were in the company that entered Vicksburg with General John A. Logan. One raised his hand. One man also was with Buford's cavalry company who fired the first shot at Gettysburg^ Genera] Logan, after M*stm& of Israel the promised did not give to them the God sever makes men the object Of charity. What he did give to them was a chance to con- quer the land for themselves, Him- self fighting on their side. Man can have the victory over anything if he has the heart for it. All that God Almighty gave to the men of Ameri- can ancestry who landed upon this continent was the chance to estab- lish here a great nation. What is a nation? Is it so many million square miles of land? So many great cities, railroads, canals, universities? Is it our great system of government, national and local? These are but evidences of the nation. The real na- tion is in the hearts ef the people. Jesus Christ spoke a simple truth when He said, 'The Kingdom of God is within you.' We might say a.sim- ple truth today, 'The United States of America is within you.' So it is that every man and every woman and every child is in very truth a part of the nation. The idle and the vicious and the,dishonest are a menace to the nation. Like the one bad apple in the barrel, such a one is likely to spread contagion through the healthy portion of the body politic. And what is patriotism? Let ua study the word. It comes from the Greek word patria, the root meaning of which is father. The patriot is one who loves that which is given to him men in business. The patriot is the man like these before ur who are|l willing to sacrifice themselves for the - good of others. Patriotism means self-sacrifice. Fathers and comrades we honor you today for the example that you are to us and Join pur pray- ers with you that this government of the people, by the people and lor the people shall not perish from the earth.' 615 DAV18 STREET BVAN8TOM, ILL. m Aiii â- >â- â- â- â- â€¢*â- **<â€"â-  4p ir mnt of fAS, COFFEE, COC^I, SPICES and EXTRMM is the futU^J^^j^\m buy 919 (Mego An. NORTH SHORE PROPERTY V WE ARE HEADQUi BRANCH OFFICES^ Rogd^PartT^ilmette, Glencoe McGuire (Sh Street IGURE-BUILDING We are to have with us, for this week a corsetiere who has trained by the corset designer this country, but iu the fashio the highest exponent of cors only in *he destgfieKofâ€" $*; rse The slight, but important, change in figure contour this season impels us to render you this service. Mrs. E. 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