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the function for which Israel was called, the more need was there of chastening. The higher the destination of a silver vessel, the greater is the need that the silver be pure, and therefore that it be frequently passed through the furnace. The destination of Israel was the highest that could have been. So Samuel does not merely give thanks for seasons of prosperity, but for checks and chastenings, too."

In that spirit you meet upon the hills of Valley Forge on this drear December day. The storm clouds veil the sky as if to remind us of the war cloud which darkens the Nation's sky.

"We may not know

How red the lilies of the spring shall grow:
What silver flood

Sea-streaming, take the crimson tints of blood.
We may not know

If victory shall make the bugles blow;

If still shall wave

The flag above our freedom or our grave.

We only know

One heart, one country, meet the foe:

On land and sea

Her liegemen in the battle of the free."

It bodes well for the Nation that you, her citizens, face the future with the remembrance of the past. Day after day will come the long lists of casualties, the news of battles lost and won, as the tide of war shall ebb and flow. As a people we must meet those days in confidence and hope, undismayed by reverses, unspoiled by success. We must feel in all its vicissitudes and in all its victories the hand of God.

Can we do this? Most assuredly, if we build our Ebenezers, national and personal, if we look back as you do today to the Nation's past and lay stress on the fact that "Hitherto hath the Lord helped us," and put our faith in that evidence of His love and favor. Our people must learn this, and who can better teach them than you Sons of the Revolution who know the past and thus have confidence in the future, as well as courage in the present? But he will be the better teacher who has built his

own altar of thanksgiving, who has in his memory of God's mercies his own Ebenezer. His faith and trust are built upon the firm foundation of personal experience, and his religious life is not some frail exotic, but is the sturdy, natural growth out of his fellowship with his God, the daily communion with Him through prayer and service. Every moment of prayer, every thought of holiness, every act of consecration thus makes us the better citizens, more ready to serve and strengthen the Nation and more ready to help it serve the present and face the future. Let us not leave this House of Prayer then, until in heartfelt gratitude to God for the past we consecrate ourselves to His service and that of our Country, that through all the vicissitudes of life, through all its stress and storm and strife, we may do our duty unfalteringly with high hope and noble courage, unafraid of sorrow, suffering or death, confident in defeat and calm in victory, because in this hour with God at Valley Forge we have built our altar of thanksgiving to God and inscribed on it the words of faith and hope and love-"Hitherto hath the Lord helped me and my Nation."

ROLL OF HONOUR

OF THOSE MEMBERS OF THE

Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution Now engaged in the Government Service in connection with the present war as reported to the Secretary

Army

Captain Roy S. Atwood, Coast Artillery Corps, U. S. A.

First Lieutenant Charles Heath Bannard, 310th Field Artillery, N. A. (Camp Meade).

Second Lieutenant Norris S. Barratt, 315th Infantry, N. A. (Camp Meade).

Captain Sylvester Bonnafon, 3d, U. S. A.

Sergeant Major William Bradford, 1st Tel. Battalion Signal Corps, U. S. R. (France).

Captain Mark Brooke, U. S. A.

First Lieutenant Thomas Cadwalader, 1st City Troop, Pennsylvania Cavalry (Camp Hancock).

Lieutenant Colonel Edward Carpenter, 351st Field Artillery, 92d Division, R. A.

First Lieutenant Algernon R. Clapp, Sig. R. C., U. S. A.

Major General Charles M. Clement, Commanding 28th Division, N. A.

Second Lieutenant Robert Dechert, 7th U. S. Infantry, R. A.

Captain Clarence Patton Freeman, Company M, 314th Infantry Regiment

(Camp Meade).

Captain Joseph Knox Fornance, Battery B, 118th Field Artillery.

Erwin Clarkson Garrett, A. E. Force (France).

Major Ernest C. Goddard, O. D., U. S. N. G.

Captain Charles Fletcher Geary, 16th Pennsylvania Infantry, N. G.

Second Lieutenant John Shriver Gleason, 81st Division Infantry, Fort Jackson, Columbia, S. C.

Lieutenant Colonel Walter Lincoln Henwood, Q. M. C., N. A.

Captain Sidney Herkness, U. S. A.

Lieutenant Colonel Lindsay Coates Herkness, 302d Engineer Corps, U. S. A. (Camp Upton, Yaphank, L. I.).

Lieutenant Alfred Morris Herkness, 309th Cavalry, Fort Sam Houston,
Texas.

Captain Wayne Herkness, Ordnance Department, Washington, D. C.
Colonel Charles H. Heyl, U. S. A.

First Lieutenant Edward Hoopes, Headquarters Company, 111th Regiment Infantry, Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.

Colonel J. F. Reynolds Landis, N. A., Inspector General Department. Major Benjamin Brentnall Lathbury, Ordnance Department, U. S. R. Corporal Frank Sheppard Leisenring, U. S. S. C. (Inspector Cable and Wires, N. E. Department).

Second Lieutenant Thomas Belfield Lewars, Field Artillery, U. S. R., El Paso, Texas.

Major John Marston, 3d, U. S. M. C.

Captain Frank R. McCoy.

Captain J. Burton Mustin, N. A.

Captain Paul Denckla Mills, U. S. R., Aviation Section, Signal Corps (France).

Captain Caleb Jones Milne, 3d, 110th Infantry, 28th Division, Camp Hancock.

Captain Joseph K. Nicholls, Adjutant General Dept., N. A., Camp Dix. Captain John Hooker Packard, 3d, Aviation Section, Signal Corps. Private Howard Ashman Patterson, Headquarters Co., 19th Regiment Engineers (Railways), American Expeditionary Force (France). Second Lieutenant Caleb Clarence Peirce, H. Q., 79th Division, N. A. (Camp Meade).

Major Harry Alexander Persell, Quartermaster Corps, Camp Beauregard, Ga.

Captain Samuel A. Price, U. S. A., 13th Infantry, Fort Mills, Corregidor Islands, P. I.

Lieutenant Colonel Howard C. Price, U. S. A., 360th Infantry, Camp Travis, Texas.

First Lieutenant Michael Miller Riter, 313th Infantry, U. S., N. A. (Camp Meade).

Major Louis Barcroft Runk, Ordnance Department, U. S. R., Inspector of Ordnance at Union Metallic Cartridge Co. Works, Bridgeport, Conn., and Hoboken, N. J.

Major Walter M. Schwartz, Ordnance Department, U. S. R., Watertown, N. Y.

Chaplain and Captain William Reese Scott, U. S. A., Camp Chickamauga, Ga.

Captain George Elwood Shepherd, E. O. R. C., Camp American, Washington, D. C.

Colonel Samuel E. Smiley, U. S. A., 8th Infantry, Camp Fremont, Cal. Captain Henry Moore Stine, Commanding Company C, 8th Pennsylvania Regiment (Camp Hancock).

Captain Edward Villeroy Stockham, Q. M. O. R. C. (active duty), U. S. A.

Colonel Harry C. Trexler.

Lieutenant Daniel N. Turner.

Private Lee Miller Ray, Headquarters Company, 39th Infantry, U. S. A. Captain Richard Vaux, Aviation Section, Signal Reserve Corps, U. S. A. Lieutenant Radcliffe Morris Urquhart, U. S. A., 28th Division (Camp Hancock).

Captain Clement Biddle Wood, Field Artillery, Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Navy

Dr. Clement Biddle (Commander U. S. N.), Navy Recruiting Duty, Wilmington, Del.

Benjamin Hayes Brooke, Paymaster, U. S. N. (Rank Lieutenant Commander).

Elias Hale Codding, U. S. N. R. F. (Rank Ensign).

First Lieutenant Nedom A. Eastman, U. S. M. C., Norfolk, Va.

Edwin Oberlin Fitch, Assistant Naval Constructor.

Captain William Wirt Gilmer, U. S. N. (Atlantic Fleet).

Rear Admiral Reynold Thomas Hall, U. S. N.

Yeoman William Wurts Harmar, U. S. N. R. F.

Albert Kelsey, Naval Preparatory School, New London, Conn.

Commander Henry C. Mustin, U. S. N.

Ensign Frederick Davant Stovell, Detail Officer, 4th Naval District (Philadelphia).

Lieutenant Commander John H. Rowen, U. S. N.

Lieutenant Stephen P. M. Tasker, U. S. N. R. F.

Ensign William K. B. Urquhart, U. S. N. (U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis)

Senior Captain Horace B. West, U. S. Coast Guard, operating under U. S. N.

Petty Officer Thomas A. Williamson, N. R., Co. 3, Camp Wissahickon, Cape May, N. J.

Medical

William Hemphill Bell, M.D., Medical Inspector, U. S. N.

Dr. Albert Knecht Detwiller, Captain, M. O. R. C., Fort Riley, Company 10, Kansas.

Clarence Payne Franklin, M.D., Lieutenant-Colonel, U. S. A., Ambulance

Service.

Adam George Heilman, M.D., First Lieutenant, M. R. C., U. S. A.

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