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^ ^ - A." , : v v • <>1- •'; •' •i.j.-i. -t-a' .' •'--S". 1 . •: ..,41 •••.- • "V, •"" '" '•**' Washington's Oum Writings Show His Religious Attitude H«i ngh Regad for Religious Practices •»< Encouraged ? Recognition of God's God's Goodness Among •** - the People at Large. ~ §*; As a boy, George Washington probably thought as much about religion as did the average normal, healthy boy of that age. As he grew older, ha steadily developed a deeply religious turn of mind, according to the Division of Information and Publication of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. At the age of twenty-three, he counted the bullet holes In his coat after Brsddock's defeat and acknowledged, with common sense practicality, that & power higher than man had saved him. The Revolutionary War taught him lessons he was too honest to deny, and as a result, Washington's belief in God became the simple faith of a child, confirmed and strengthened "by the actual living- experience of a man. The' personal record of church attendance, his estimate of the value of religious practices among the people at large; his desire and effort to encourage and to inculate in the people a spirit of gratitude toward the Deity; and his own expressions of opinion respecting God, give concrete evidence of his faith. His religious record practically starts with the time when he was •>! commanding the Virginian troops on the western frontier after Braddock's defeat. At Fort Loudoun, Winchester, at the age of twenty-four, this Colonel of Virginia militia, on Saturday September 18, 1756, ordered that men parade tomorrow morning beating the long roll, with their arms' and amunitions clean and in good or-, der, and to be marched by_ the Ser-| geants of the respective companies to the Fort, there to remain until prayers are over." After his marriage, Washington attended Pohick Church at Pohick, Virginia, and later Christ church, Alexandria, Virginia. Both churches were distant from Mount Vernon, so that it was something of a journey ». o reach them by coach. An important point establishes by a close check-up erf Washington's church attendance is that throughout his public life, in times of political stress and strain, he went to church oftener, than he did in times of national calm and quiets On October 19, 1765, there is record of his taking the oath to conform to the doctrine and discipline of the church of England "as by law established," and during the year 1774, when political relations with the mother country were becoming dangerously strained, and no one in the colonies was able to foresee the outcome, he went to church twice, and sometimes three times a month. It was on June 1, 1774, the day the B03- • ton Port Bill went into effect, that he •••tent to church and fasted all day." In the hectic days of the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, Washington, in the letter to his wife, stated that he "relied confidently on that - providence which has heretofore preserved and been bountiful to me." In the manly speech with which he, accepted the appointment of comman-l der-in-chief of the army he made no reference to God or to heaven; but one month after taking command of the army the matter of prayers and church service appears in the general orders for August 5, 1775, at Cambridge. These orders directed that "the church be cleaned tomorrow and the Rev. Mr. Doyle will perform Divine Service therein at ten o'clock." I Then comes a personal note of soul NOT - A DRAB STORY • ffi 86 S Bj Fannie Hurst over the attempt and evacuated the town. Here is Washington's comment to his brother John on the occurrence: "That this remarkable interposition of Providence is for some wise purpose, I have not a doubt." And this was rather an extraordinary thing to say, for with the preparations made, all contingencies provided for, and with a sufficiency of ammunition, none of which things were present at the affair of Bunker Hill, it is quite reasonable to assume that Howe's attempt would have resulted in the complete annihilation of the British army. The setting up of the actual machinery of religion in the Continental Army is important as a part of Washington's religious record. The Congress authorized the employment of chaplains, after Washington had urged it, and the general orders of July 9, 1776, when the Army was in New York City, directed: "That Colonels or commanding officers of each regiment are directed to procure for Chaplains accordingly, persons of good character and exemplary lives. To see that all inferior officers and soldiers pay them a suitable respect and attend carefully upon religious exercises. The blessing and protection of Heaven are at all times necessary, but especially so in times of public distress and danger. The General hopes and trusts, that every ofthe1 ficer and man will endeavor so to live at' and act as becomes a Christian Soldier defending the dearest rights and Liberties of his country." In January, 1777, the Continental Army for the first time since the siege of Boston, established a permanent encampment base. This was at Morristown, New Jersey, and among the early things attended to was the practice of regular Sunday worship for ihe troops. On April 12, a Saturday, it was ordered that "All the troops in Morristown except the guards, are to attend divine worship tomorrow at the second Bell; the Officers commanding the Corps, are to take special care to have their men clean and decent, and that they are to march in proper order to the place of worship." Next week it was ordered: "All the troops in town (not on duty) to attend divine serviee tomorrow agreeable to the orders of the 12th instant." The convenience of a church building was an element in Morristown and the army paid due observance to Sunday. It may be noted, however, that only the troops in the town itself were ordered to ehurch, for no building would have been large enough to hold the army encamped in the vicinity. When the encampment was shifted to Middlebrook the well-known order against profanity was Issued on May 31. Washington characterized it as the "foolish and. scandalous practice of profane swearing" and added: "As a means to abolish this and every other species of immorality Brigadiers are enjoyned to take effectual care, to have divine service duly performed in their respective brigades." At Middlebrook, also, on June 28, the orders were as follows: "All Chaplains are to perform divine service tomorrow and on every succeeding Sunday, with their respective brigades and regiments, where the situation will possibly admit of it. And the Commanding officers of corps are to see that they attend themselves with officers of all ranks setting the ex- T (© by McClur® Newspaper Syndicate » BIS may seem a drab story. humility in his letter to Joseph Reed ample. The Commander-in-chief exin January, 1776: . "I have scarcely pects an exact compliance with this emerged from one,, difficulty," wrote order, and that it be observed in the Washington, "before I have plunged future as an invariable rule of pracinto another. How it will end, God in tice. And every neglect will.be his great goodness will direct. * I am considered not only as a breach of orthankful for his'protection to this ders, but a disregard to decency, virtime." One thing that speedily be- tue and religion." came clear in the mind of George On the day after the surrender of Washington was that the military and Cornwallis, October 20, 1781, Washington's greatest military triumph of the war, he issued this order: "Divine service is to be performed tomorrow in the several brigades and divisions. The Commander-in-Chief admit of their successful" solution earnestly recommends that the troops without help from on high, and cer- n°t on duty should universally attend tainly the verdict of history as to the that seriousness of deportment governmental difficulties of America were not, and could not, be properly met without the help of God. They were too great and America was too feeble, in Washington's judgmpnt, to magnitude of these difficulties has confirmed Washington's political judgment. And also, instead of becoming opinionated, instead of developing an ego, instead of becoming confident of and gratitude of heart which the recognition of such reiterated and astonishing interpositions of Providence demands of us." Here are Washington's words < I .. Srf his abilities as he succeeded in sur-« connection between religion and mounting one difficulty after another Kovernment as taken from his Fare- George Washington became more and' wel1 address: "Morality is a necesmore convinced that the hand of God sary sPrinK popiflar government-- Iras in those triumphs and greater and us w>th caution indulge the supfreater became his spiritual humility. P°siti°n that morality can be main- This humility in success and will- ^ined without religion. Whatever He iagness to accept failure without complaint is exemplified at the end! of the siege of Boston. The seizure Mid fortification of Dorchester Heights are recalled, and how the British prepared for another Bunker Hill, for they attempted to cross the bay in order to storm the works, and Bunker Hill would have been child's play to the slaughter that would have ensued. may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." On his deathbed, after nearly twenty- four hours of struggle fof breath, he placed the final seal of courageous manhood upon his life and went to his It is also recalled that the red-coats I ^a^e.r with his brave faith unshaken, •were prevented from crossing the' first," he whispered, water by a sudden'and violent storm Which lasted so long that by the time M was over Howe felt that the works had become too strong for him, gave "that the disorder would prove fatal-- but I am not afraid to go." ST: TO. 186 Our Want-Ads are business Irringers SIDE GARAGE Otto Attains, Prop. General Automobile Repairing*^ Res. Plume, 639-B-2 Certainly It Is not a glided romance of Ufe lived In the gayer mood& of thlngs-as-they onght-to-be. But since the heart Is the sourbe from which life drains Its happiness and the heart of Ella was In Its own way to find Its own fulfill ment, what may seem drab to the out sider was not that to this slim, some times grim girl. There Is no doubt that she was one of those persons born to carry more than her share of theworld's responsibility. At seventeen, she was earning half the upkeep and expense of her home which consisted of a five-room fiat In a two-family house on a. presentable street This she shared with her mother, a gay. rather childish woman who had never caught up with her years, and with her father, a building contractor, who was* even then, beginning to lose his sight. From the point of view of many of her friends. Eila's mother was a trial sufficient to tax her endurance beyond limit. She was an airy person of rather good Eastern family connections who had never become recon ciled to what she regarded as the cruder aspects of Middle-West Ufe The city In which she lived bored her. There was an air of patronage about the little lady. Her habit was to lie abed mornings, leaving her daughter and husband, both of whom she adored, to scuttle about the kitchen for breakfast h-lore they hurried away to work. Mo;-e than often she waited for them to prepare the evening meal when they came from their work. She was the sort of woman who willfully creates within herself Inefficiency, thereby at tie same time forjj^ng those about her to acquire skill at chores which would naturally be outside their realm. There was no reason why Ella and ber father should have been carrying on their business lives and at the same time carrying on their Shoulders the responsibilities of the home. But that was the case. It had been, ever since Mrs. Lee was married to her husband and evef* since Ella was tall enough to stand shoulder-high to a kitchen sink. John I^ee. long ago reconciled to this unequal balance of powtr in his home, and devoted in spite of himself to this airy little woman, his wife, carried on stodglly, relentless in his routine, even When the grim fear of Impending blindness began to descend' upon him. At seventeen. Ella Lee, too old for her years, was assistant in a dentist's office. She was a quiet girl, far too slender, with a mouse-like face, taupecolored hair which in a hobbed-hair age she wore In two mats against her ears. In Mrs. Lee's eyes, Ella, in her thin, pallid way. bore the imprints of the aristocracy of the world "back East," a semi-mythlpal world by now. which Mrs. Lee's Imagination had em broldered as the years marched on. She was fond of visualizing grandeurs of her girlhood back East that had Oiever existed. In all sincerity, she cherished the belief that she had made the supreme social sacrifice In ntarry- Ing John Lee and migrating ^o this Middle-Western city. Meanwhile, endowed with the sometimes surprising vitality of the slender in body, Ella began to assume more and more the affairs of that household. Inevitably, there came t|ie day when her father, blind, parsimoniously pensioned by the corporation thru hnd employed him for the forty middle years of his life, was obliged to surrender. his activities. It u;e".nt h severe kind of pinching for the house hold. Only the facts that Ella, through a Btroke of Incredible good frtrtune. obtained a better-paying position In the office of a nose-and-throat specialist, and that a newspaper advertise ment had brought lu a lodger for the best room in the flat, were the^Lees able to make both ends meet. It was hard, rutty sledding for a while, and it looked as If Ella's frail shoulders could scarcely bear the load. First, her father, along with the collapse of his eyesight, suffered a nervous breakdown. Then, for one reason or another, the lodger they had been able to obtain left almost without warning for reasons that had no bearing upon satlsincMon or dissatisfaction at the Lees'. Mrs. Lee, ineffectual as ever, tried to put her shoulder to the wheel; tried her hand at making fancy candies for the Woman's Exchange and even attempted to do a bit of sewing for the neighbors. But It was no use; she was a futile, spoiled woman. And much of this condition was due to Ella herself. She babied her mother, catered to her Inefficiencies and will lngly assumed a load that might have staggered a far more robust person. Her father, feeble In strength nervously gone An resistance, and tormented by the first years of learn Ing his lesson of reconciliation to blindness, came slowly and unconsci ously to demand more and more^ot Ella. The fact that she was carrying S load that not only obscured hot youth but Jeopardized her health failed to make Its Impression on hln« He only knew th«t he loved her at' needed her; that she was Indl* to hik fe|fcn«M placeahie In his plight. The pathos of this gaunt old man, empty-eyed, empty-handed, was almost more than she could bear. No labor of love was too much. She got up at dawn because he was sleepless then, and she could give to him the few precious hours before her departure from the bouse. Her return from the physician's office where she was employed was made In breathless, hurried fashion so that she might give to him a few extra moments before the preparation of dinner. Throughout all this, Mrs. Lee, well-meaning, bleeding sympathy for her husband, agonizing for her daughter, succeeded only In making herself more and more of an Impediment. Her cooking was so bad. Time and time again the luncheons which she served to her liusband while Ella was at her work came scorched and tasteless to the table, Irritating the nervous old man almost beyond endurance. Finally, It became Ella's chore, before she left the house In the morning, to prepare her father's lunch. place It In the Icebox and leave written Instructions to her little scatter-brained mother precisely how the food slu^ild be warmed. "Poor Ella," said the neighbors, *1 don't see how site stands it." Neither did Ella, for thut matter, but fortunately there was not much time to wonder about It. The days were all too short for what she had to accomplish during them; the nights all too brief for the amount of sleep her tired body required. - The >matter of lodgers, one of their , major sources of Income by . now, was a troublesome and nerve-racking one. It was not that they did not seem satisfied, but almost invariably, once they obtained one, he or she would be called out of the city on the death of a relative or a change of position pr some incident over which they had no control. A young man named- Nest us Nevlns was to be the ultimate lodger who renminbi. He was a shell-shocked fellow of about thirty-two who found himself, because of physical disabilities. forced to live on an Income which amounted to about ninety dollars a month. The capital representing this money had been left him by his parents. In trust, when he was only nineteen. It required care and discretion, In this day and age, to live on IL ' , He was a pale-eyed, timid fellow, by no means unintelligent, but a boy whose delicate health, both In childhood and later, owing to shell shock, had developed certain Inhibitions and a lack of aggressiveness. He liked books and was capable of lying five or six hours of the'day and reading. He was not averse to puttering about his room, trying his hand at composition and writing of doing a bit of carpentry for Mrs. l^ee, throughout the long bright days, without sotmucb as leaving the house. He was the first young man who had ever cast a second glance at Ella. Over night, as It were, here life had taken on a turbulence. Excitement for this pale, lustreless girl that was without precedent in her entire experience.' The days had come flamlngly alive. Everything had taken on a significance that It had never claimed before. It was one thing to be just alive. It was another thing to waken to days that suddenly were tipped with the strange beauty of a strange meaning. Mrs. Lee saw it happening. She saw the young Nestus begin to cast the magnetized eye of attraction upon her child. Strange tumults beat In her.; She was the mother ambitious for her offspring. Romance had come even for Ella who, somehow, up to now, had seemed immune. It was a strange enough courtship. The pallid youth, lying around the house all day, only perking up enough strength to put on his collar and smooth his hair as the' hour of Ella's home-coming approached. Evenings, they sat In the stuffy little parlor, Ella reading to her father, or the four of them, aided and abetted by a system which Ella had worked out for the blind mau, playing bridge. The moments of the young people alone together were so rare and sporadic that when the engagement of their troth finally came, Mrs. Lee, for the life of her, could not figure out where and how the words of tryst could have taken place. But they had. Ella and Nestus were married in the little parlor one Sunday afternoon so that the occasion need not Interfere with her office work. - The household goes on as before, only there Is the addition of Nestus Nevins now, who, in his way, Is as much to be babied as Mrs. Lee or her husband. . But this is not a drab story. Ella, In her squirrel cage of service, Is happy. •lid tar*! v - *6lo6um's lake W. 0. Converse of LibertyVille was" a dinner, guest last Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse. Mrs. Wm. Foss and daughter, Pearl, were callers at McHenry Tuesday. Harry Matthews and son were visitors at Crystal Lake Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren wtw5 callers at McHenry Friday. Leslie Foss spent Sunday at the*, home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Foss at Libertyville. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Converse, Miss Frances Davis and Martin Bower at-ij** tended the card party at Round Lake' Tuesday evening. ' Mr. and Mrs. Esse Fisher end Miss! Ada Dowell of ^Roseville spent Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dowell andf daughter were business callers at Grayslake Monday. Mnp. Walter Winkler and Mrs. H. Winkler visfted the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snyder at Grayslake Thursday. Mr. and Mrs, W. W. Birkett of Shell Lake, Wis., are visiting p.t the< home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Brooks. Miss Pearl Foss spent last Thursday at Waukegan. ^ Wilbur Cook and son, Ira, of Wauonda and son, Ray, of Zion, and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Duggan of Lake Bluff were Sunday callers at the W. E. Brooks home. Wm. Foss attended the funeral of Mrs. Osman Hale at Crystal Lake last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John Blomgren-were callers at Crystal -Lake Saturday evening. Chesney Brooks spent the weekend with Robert Dooley at LaFayette, Ind. Mrs. Henry Winkler, Sr., accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Charles Snvrerjs and son of Grayslake to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Whitman Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Brooks o f ' Waukegan and Mr. and Mrs. James Hawley of -Barrington were recent visitors at the W. E. Brooks home. Mrs. LaDoyt Matthews of Ci-vsta! Lake spent Thursday at the home of her sister, Mrs. Harry Matthews. Mrs. Harry Matthews entertained^ the Ladies' Aid society of Wauconda« at her home last Tharsday. Mr. and Mrs. Willard Darrell, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Esping, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nordmeyer and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Lusk of near Round Lake were entertained at the John Blbmgren home Friday evening in honor of Mr. Blomgren's birthday. Mrs. Jack Geary and two children spent the week-end with Sister Venard at Sheboygan, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Maiman of Wauconda spent last Thursday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Geary. ^ Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Schaffer of Mo* Henry spent Friday at the home of her parents here. Elmer Esping was. a dinner guest at the home of Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Youngdahl at Crystal Lake Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Zimmer and daughter, Joan, and John Zimmer of Barrington were' Sunday guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gearg, Plaindealers at Bolger's. Clr»ff« jlfavor NoUy ^ The only pound a giraffe can mafe* is one resembling a cough. ... 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