Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-23
TO BE A PATRIOTIC CITIZEN.

The Five Qualities Indispensable
Rev. A. MacNicheI breaches an
Able and Scholarly Discourse Be
fore the o. q. A. NJ. at westvillc
Methodist Church.
The Westvllle Methodist church was
filed to it's utmost capacity last evening,
the occasion being a service commemora-
tive of Washington's birthday, with a spe-
cial sermon to the members of The o. L.
A. n. by Rev. A. MacNichol, pastor of the
church The members of the order turned
out en- masse, every council in the city be-
ing represented by a large delegat ion. The
| services throughout were of a cha racter
| BETTING the day. The music was rendered
| by the regular choir of the church, Mr.
Arthur Farnham rendering several solos in
most acceptable manner. During the
| the course of his sermon Mr.. MacNichol
said:
To be patriotic citizen of this nation
| five things are indispensable. The first of
| these is intelligence, an autocratic form of
government may exist for ages while the
| masses are degraded and ignorant, but the
strength and perpetuity of a republican
form of government must depend upon the
virtue and intelligence of its citizens. We
want men in this republic to-day. who can
read more than their ballots, we want men
who can read the times, we want men who
will refuse to cringe and submit to party
dictation. The politics of the day are cor
| rupt to the core. Party and not patriotism
| rules the hour. We want men who can
write their ballots as well as read them
men who can vote intelligently, not ac-
cording to favoritism or party dictstion,
| Int 10 he nf 1i1l
ened conscience and Judgment. This is
what the country needs, but what it is not
getting. Every year between one-half and
three-quarters of a million immigrants
landing in this country are bringing with
them vice, ignorance and superstition and
enslavement to an ecclesiastical court that
makes war upon every free institution in
the country, and our country can bear the
strain only SO long as it can civiliZe,
christenize and Americanize the hetero-
genious and discordant elements. When
o foreigner has become sufficiently Ameri-
canized to understand and be willing to
risk his life or limb in defiance of her
institutions then and only then is he
qualified to become an American citizen.
In the second place the true patriot
will seek to propagate a loyal healthy
American spirit. To mix up italian,
German, English or Irish politics with
should not be tolerated. This country
has no use for German Americans, Scotch,
Irish or English Americans or any kind
of Americans with prefix, but what 1t
does require and has right to demand is
true loyal Americans.
In the third place, the true patriot will
obey the laws of his country.
Organizations against law are organiza-
ton against the nations life and every
American citizen knows that our socialistic
organizations are not the only ones whose
members are traitors to the best interests
of the nation. We have an organized
body of law breakers in the keepers of sa-
looms and grog shops, who are the most
pronounced enemies of the three grandest
Institutions in this country, the church,
the school and the home.
Fourthly, the true patriot will be LOYAL
to the institutions that have been the
foundation of the nations greatness The
life of two of the most important of these
institutions is in danger at the present
time, viz, the public schools and the
Christian Sabbath, both of which have
been most important factors in the trans
forming of aliens into true American citi
zens. A vigorous and most persistent
assault is being made against both to-day
The antagonism is so deep and radical tina
compromise is impossible. One side o.
the other must sooner OF later be victori
GUS, and if we want to save our schoo
. systems and Sabbaths from the rui,
: which now threatens them we must awak
to watchfulness and activity.
, Finally, the patriotic citizen of the high
, est type will be Christian citizen. Tn
ideal patriot is the man who is true to hi
country because true to his God. Fa
, deeper and far broader than the human
government is the divine, which ordain
| and upholds the human, and the man VIII
: is faithful to the divine will never be dis
: loyal to the human. The patriotism o
' Washington and Lincoln would have bee,
, impossible had it not beef
D for their love of righteousness
: and loyalty to God. The trues
o patriots of to-day are those who, true +
t Christ, themselves are working for tn
. | material, social, intellectual and spiritus
8 developments of their fellow citizens an
q only when we are doing this can We loo
up into the face of the great father an
r pray with the Jewish patriot of old in tn
q words of the text, "Think upon me, m
Is God, for good according to all that I hay
Q done for this people.
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