Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-05-31

SYNOPSIS OF A SERMON PREACHED B,
Rev. G. LowTHER IN THE METHo
DIST CHURCH ON LAST SUNDAY
MORNING.
The circumstances of this day make i,
appropriate that We should consider the
words, Fraternity, Patriotism and
Charity" adopted as the motto of the
''Grand Army of the Republic
The words suggest three distinctive
subjects but they represent three prin-
ciples which blend into unit like the
colors in ray of light.
As the subjects are distinctive, I will
chose three texts to represent them.
l. "Be kindly affectionate one TO-
ward another with brotherly love.
2. If forget thee, o Jerusalam!
let my right hand forget her cunning.
Ps. 1876
3. Above all these have fervant char
ity among yourselves. / Pet. Nv; 8.
Fraternity is word used to denote
the quality of being brotherly. l do
not know the extent of its meaning as
used by the order whether it applies to
the order alone, or whether 1t takes on
the broader meaning, used by Christ
of the ''univirsal brotherhood of man
Perhaps as good an exposition of broth
erliness as we have is found in the par
able of the "Good Samaritan" who help
ed the Jew who had falleu among THEW
es while on his way to Jericho. In order
to get the force of this we must remem-
Der that the Jews and Samaritans were
political and ecclesiastical enemies.
They we're of one blood, and one ma
ton until the death of Solomon when
the Ten tribes under Jerroboam, reyolted
against the authorized government I'M
der Rehoboam. From the rebellion
to the time of Christ, they were in con.
tinuous warfare. Thus for thousand
years the strife continued until it pass
ed into proverb, "The Jews have no
dealings with the Samaritans.' Yet
Christ taught them to recognize the
Sarmaritans as brethren notwithstand-
ing they we're Political and ecclesiasti-
cal enimies. do not know in what
sense the order uses the word; but
whether in its broader or narrower sense
tnere are beautiful lessons for us to
earn in the parable, to guide us in our
action toward those with whom we
once stood face to face in battle.
Patriotism is love of country. An
error exists in many minds in suppos-
ng that the Southerner was not Patri..
1t.
l once heard a Republican orator,;av
hat jeff Davis was Patriot of the
lind but he did not Ike the kind
4 At the time did no., believe it. But
have learned to believe it in a sense.
The difference was not that the North
rner iove~t his country and home and
ne S.outherner did not: but it was
lir.erence of opinion on fundamental
principles or government. The North
1eld that under the Constitution the
union of states was indissolvable; that
the sovereignty of the nation was lodged
n the central government. and that all |
The states are to be subordinate.
The South loved the sovereign state
With the same feeling and fervor that
he North loved the sovereign nation.
This was patriotism in either case but
# two different kinds and I have
strong preference as to the kinds. |
People in both North and South sang
The words of Sir Walter Scott.
Breaths there q man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself has said;
his lie my own, my native land,
Whose heart has mere within him burned,
rs home his footstep he has turned
From wandering on foreign strand:
such there breath, 60 mark him well,
For him no minstrel rapture swell;
[igh though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth. as wish can claim,
'espite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch concentred all in self,
living, shall forfeit fair renown
And doubly dying, shall 60 bown
o the vile dust from whence he sprang
Unwcpt unhCnored and unsung."
Charity, you will scarcely need any
ther definition then that given by the
reatest scholar Of his age, who said;
Charity, sufferth long and Is kind etc. ::
Charity never faileth.'
You will use the words of Lincoln
hose favorite motto was, "Malice to-
ard none and charity for ALL"
1t would seem from the relation of
ne words, Fraternity, Patriotism and
'harity that they were Trinity in a
nifty blending into great, grand and
whole.
1t may seem difficult to contend earn.
,tly for what seems to you vital in the
atoms life and yet have only charitable
ceilings and words for those who oppose
GU. But this is what charity means
1t does not mean that you are to call
lack, white, nor evil, good. 1t does {
OF imply that your opponent is right.
does not call rebellion, unity. But
does imply that you are to believe
i'm honest and patriotic in so far as it |
possible from the nature of the cir !,
instances to do SO. The great war ]
ended. Almost a generation has
assed since the smoke of battle cleared
way. The proplems to be solved then
ere: how to attain victory and save the