Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1919 — Hymn Strong Mon Loved. [ARTICLE]

Hymn Strong Mon Loved.

At ; a memorial service in honor of Roosevelt at St. Nicholas church, New York, which he attended as a boy, the pastor remarked that the dead man’s favorite hymn, from his childhood, was “How Firm a Foundation.” That, also, was. the favorite hymn of General Lee. It is notable that the same words appealed to these two men, whose fates were so strangely different —the one successful and triumphant practically all his life, the other a defeated soldier and victim of many sorrows. Yet the dilettanti will tell us scornfully that the verses loved by these strong hearts and moving them through years of intense action are not “poetry” and art “crwde.” —Richmond Timee-Dispatch.