The Progress., 1893-02-18

,cansed in the past the development Of in
dividuality that the human race NIGH
attain in its breadth and scope the broad
est possibilities.
CHRISTIANITY Is PATRIOTIC.
L believe that patriotism is a religious
sentiment; that the man who does no
love his country does not love God
is not true Christian. The highes
sweep of patriotism is of the very spiri
of the living God. He who truly love.
his country loves it as part of God.
great world-not as against all the world
because II is part of his inheritanc,
from the Great Father.
Race and national hatreds are thus
virtues overaccentuated They only need
TO be toned down to the plane of a
rational, fraternal rivalry, for man tC
attain the noblest things.
believe in vigorous nationalism be
cause l believe nationality is a Divine
ordinance. l like to see German who
believes il the fatherland, in his country
and people, in his nation. / believe in Il
Frenchman who believes III France, and
| am ebil dlb VI tt ItllCLIlltl WHO uOtS UOl
believe i'll France. l believe in an Eng.
lishman who believes in England. | be
| heve III a BritOn who believes in thc
| great empire, and rs his individuality Is
| accentuated he has attained the very
| highest and truest and noblest propor.
| tiOns Of manhood
For the same reason | believe in an
u 1gsn.r al.
not half and half, cross between what
| has become obsolete in England and what
ought to have been obsolete here Vearsand
years ago. ] believe in natiOnalism
that has character and force and man
hood and power, even with its idiOsyu-
crasies and provincialisms. believe i
is Gods ordinance. When a foreigner
comes and joins a nation, be ought to
belong to the nation, not to that which
he has deserted. | believe, then, that
every man who makes America his home
should be an American. If he is III
France, let him be n Frenchman; if in
Germany, a German. But when he
draws his hearts blood from America
let him be American, and if he is not he
has failed to understand one of Gods or
dinances.
If worthy to stand in the galaxy of ma
tions God has chosen, it is worthy of the
highest support. l despise with con
tempt supreme the man who is an
American that will get down in the dirt
and crawl before an effete European
civilization because it is foreign. ]
believe that it is an indication of fatal |
weakness that is so contemplate that |
God is as sure to stamp it out of exist |
ence, with the men who thus crawl, as
that in the history of this world that |
which is fit has survived.
/ do not believe in an anglomaniac lv- |
ing in America, in German as German
living in America, in Frenchman as
Frenchman living in America. | be-
lieve in Gods choice of the nation as n
nation, and l believe he has chosen this
nationf for some purpose. Therefore be-
lleve In its flag and institutions, in its Di-
vine call, for he has called it to do what
he has called no other nation to do, and
that therefore every man within its bor-
ders should stand for the hohest princi-
pies for which it was founded
The difficulty is, i'll some of the fairest
days we fail to see the dangers that may
thus undermine the nations life In the
valley of Chamouni they had built those
little cottages centuries ago. In perfect
safety they had lived. The sun was fair;
nature smiled. They were lulled into a
sense of security because nothing had
SO far. But back upon those
fair mountain sides, through the cen
.uries of the past, there had been slowly
1T work forces that on day of the fair
est sun and the brightest light loosed
he avalanche that came crashing down
ind engulfed those homes with all that
hey held--with all their hopes and joys.
believe that it behooves a nation in
Ter fairest day thus to watch, thus with
he utmost care to see that beneath the
urface there may not be power that
perhaps is undermining that which is
ssential to its life perpetuity. {
CIVIL GOVERNMENT A DIVINE ORDINANCE. {
God has called you to teach the ma
ions of this world something real i
allied you to lead them in the develop t
nent of a worlds liberties. saw the a
be other day where the prime minister
4 Spain went into the room of the king.
little fellow years old They had /
AIKEN him with triumphal procession t
trough the nation, and they fired SO a
lany guns that it made the little boy b
ck. And the prime minister came in v
1 the morning to see his majesty and L
SIX, in his offhand way, How is AL 0
honsite this morning." The little fel- S
NV drew himself up and looked at him ]
nd said, ''To my mamma am Alphon-
ito, but to you am the king"
Think of little fellow only years
d-and that great, strong man, with /
is big brain, staggering back out of the W
'om and covering his head in shame. II
ct there be people who would seek with s.
lie utmost seryilityto bow down to that q
hich should have been history in the le
ist because it belongs to another world. b.
cd has called you to lead the world in k
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