Armistice Day should be a day of serious contemplation and of renewed consecration.
No words could more fittingly describe the proper attitude of our hearts and minds than found in the memorable address of President Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address.
“It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought there have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highlyperceive that these dead shall not have died in vain; that tis nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that the government of the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
It is a grave question as to whether Democracy can survive or not. It is only when the will of God becomes the will of men that men can live in peace with all men.
From the front page of the Roxboro Courier, Wednesday evening, Nov. 10, 1926
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