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w K "Jehovah-Nissi, tbe Lotd I my Banner." R Sermon Delivered by Rev. >|| Jere Witherspoon, D. D., During the Recent Confedt erate Reunion in RichRepublished from tbe Christian Observer by ^quest of Daughters of the i Confederacy, Tex', Kx. 17 :15: "And Moses built an altar, and called f he name of it Jehovali-nissi." Rephidmi is one of the ba'tle fields of Scripture. When Israel prevailed over Amelek on thai field, Moses took care thai God KT should have all the credit and glory, and God was careful thai Israel and the generations to follow should have the comfort and encouragement of that triumph. The man ol God accordingly arranged lor the erection of a memorial altar inscribed: "JeliovahNissi, the Lord, my banner;" and Jehovah gives orders that Moses should prepare a memorial volume giving the story of i he struggle and rehearse the recorded facts in the ear of Joshua. So a journal of Ihe day's doings was written, containing a record of what had been and of what was soon to follow in the complete overthrow of this hostile power. Moses also reared an altar on the field of battle and gave it a name to express his faith in God and j to own the part he plays in hu- 1 man affairs. The sentiment expressed in that long past age by the memorial volume and altar, is tlie same as that which was i uttered by the Demosthenes of the American Revolution many I centuries later in the eastern end of our citv, i. e., "The battle is not to the strong, nor, the race to the swift." The people of the early ages believed in memorials and along the track of time left their re cords on paper, tablet or stone. We should also value our memiorials. If we forget the past, j future generations will forget us. A people who do not value heroism in others will never display it themselves. If we build no monuments to the deeds of the fathers, it is a sure sipn that ourj children will find nothing in our lives deserving of commemoration. 1 MEMORIALS ? AN INSTRUCTION AND AN INSPIRATION. Every moment like that at Rephidim, answers two ends: It is first, a medium of instruction. It is an object lesson. When years had passed and the actors in that strife were^one, a stranger or a cliihl who chanced to visit that plain, might ask what that) altar meant 1 History would then tell her story and fix her lesson < in the mind. The inquirer would ,t learn that Rephidim was a battle field where J-rael and Ainelek strove and where Jeh ovah himBelf became banner or battle ensign to Israel, and threw the victory to them. > Ours is a sentimental city and ; .1 .... . . . J believing memorials, has scattered them through her holders I as so many object lessons. Win n a child with its parent halts for V? the first time before the statue of Washington in the eapiio! i square and asks about it, that I I ' V . % *y "7 v '1 parent may, for the time, tu teacher of history and tell h' he colonies under him who u? first in war, fiist in peace ai first in the hearts of his count men" won their independeuc Let the two ko West 25 bloc on Franklin Street and tlx come upon other monument The child learns that the oi with the towering shntt in t center is to the memory of t! Confederacy's first and only pr aidant. and the recently unveili figure in bronze, is Gen. Stuai the embodiment of valor, chivf ry and military skill. If the i q isitive child is curious to knc something more about that mo umeut to Lee, his father cau U him that the harehraded man ( theliorse was the leaderof 'Ml lost cause", as it is called; tl man whom Stonewall Jacksr said he would he willing to to low blind folded ; a man uwl was Caesar without his ami lion, and Wellington withoi his success" ai d who at App inattox lowered to a generou foreman, a tattered banner whic under inspiring leadership ha so often been made a conquerir eneign 1 Every monument, such i Moses reared, should teacb, si condly, loyalty to national liopi and ideals. The achievemen of the fathers it is ennobling I recall and the review obliges t to the reproduction of their vi tiies. A visit to Jamestown an Plymouth should make us bettt ciuzenH ana patriots. X ou ai a poor son of Pennsylvania, you have not embraced the oj portunity to see the Liberty b?] Indepennence Hull and the fac< of the signers ot the Declarator a poor Virginian, if vou have no ' / at least longed to see old S John's, and a poor Bostonian, the blood did not leap in you veins as you stood, for the firi time, in Faneuil llall and ol South church. As an Episcopalian, you retlec little credit on your Church, the. sight of the old tower j Jamestown does not stir yoi soul, and you are not a first rai Methodist or Baptist unless tli memorials of your church in ou land, appeal to you. A man t a lary:e degree, discredits h Presbvterianism, when lie look with indifference on old Greyfr: ars. St Giles, t lie home of Knoj and tlie memoria e of Calvin i Geneva. Memorials, we set serve the two ends of inglructio and inspiration. They inform an they influence. A RELIGIOUS MEMORIAL. The monument at Rephidir was religious first and foremog l'lie Hebrew was taught devout ness and never considered lif and its interests apart from G)( rriie heavens told ot His glory thf firmament ot His handiwork the roar of the sea was li'te Hi voice, the lightning \v <s like th il ish of Hi- eve. tli" eaitli wa His footstool and the start* wer hi His (lock led forth on th plain of th" sky at night faM. The proad Kings of As-vri reared monument;- to their glory the warriors of K^ypt para lei their deeds on stone and the K< in in sot up ins arches to commc mi r.i'his exploits in North Al rif i, in Glial or in the fnr East but when Moses jroos to perpe tunte the memory of the vic'ori >91 vr^- rwftp, < ,??r . > J, -avjrjw^ HK LANCASTER NEWS, AUG ,n Ideal Business College. )W ,a3 The right way to learn liusinesi thi ough actual business ranaaotiona coarse in Book-keeping taught iu this has aupciior advuutages over all ol ry systems . No mere theory,-*-eveiytb practical and realistic. 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