The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-29
"rHE HIGHER PATRIOTISM"

DIR. Miiburn's Views Upon the Man Who
Serves His Country I'm Pesce as Well as War.
At the Second Presbyte terrain Church, yes
terdsy morning. Rev. DR.. Milburn preached
a notable sermon on The Higher Patriot
ISM" After paying his respects to the
''silver-tongued" and skv-rocket patriot
ism of the, Fourth-of-July variety, he spoke
in glowing terms of the martial patriotism
that impelled man to leave his plow or
other vocation, commend his family to
God and shoulder o musket for HE coun-
try's good. He then continued thus:
But yond this martial patriotism, my
friends, there IS O yet deeper and higher
patriotism TO which, unfortunately. we do
not pay sufficient heed and TO which We do
not otier its proper quota OF respect, and
that Is the patriotism that Is faithful in
peace as In war. faithful in calm as in
storm. faithful through the long summer
of the nations prosperity as the loyal SOL
der has been faithful through the
long winter of woe. For we must
remember that a nations history
is not made on tho battle field.
England was not made az Waterloo;
Athens was not made at Marathon; Ger
many was not made at Metz or Gravelotte;
nor was America made at Bunker Hill, at
Lexington. at Yorktown or at Appomattox.
These were flaming and brilliant moments
in the history of nations; but these are not
the great constructive moments. these are
not the moments in which institutions are
born; these are not the moments in which
laws of equity and justice come to utter
ance; these are not the moments In which
great historic destinies are forged. War
does not make; it unmakes and the heroes
of the many wars that have desolated this
earth In different nations and In different
tines, whilst they may have Slaughtered
red-handed inIquities ana beheaded hOary-
headed wrongs. have not built up the far
liberties and equities under which man
lives q large and stately life. There is no
great and magnificent history in the
non ball; there Is no great Jurisprudence.
there Is no beautiful morality, there is no
tenderness, there is no onward stride, there
Is no prosperity; there Is no peace In the
Calling gun aud the bomb. The large con-
structive work that has been done by man
for man has been done in the hours of
peace by the heroes OF peace. and not in the
hours of storm by the heroes of war.
Much, indeed more than we can ever
measure by words. more than we can rep
resent adequately In thought, do we owe
to the valiant men who have stood in the
forefront or battle for their nations liber-
ties aud for their nations laws. Much
honor uuspeakable honor does England
owe to Marlborough, does Scotland owe to
Wallace, does Germany owe TO Won Moltke
and does America owe to Washington and
Grant. But So also. large honor do we owe
TO those men W no have fought on no field
of battle but who have contended in the
parliaments of men and IN the turbulent
fields of political controversy, for larger
human liberties and for wider human
rights. Not ali the honor belongs TO the
soldier. Some part of 1t belongs to the
statesmen aud the saint. some part of il
to Washington and Grant. some part of it
to Wellington and Wolf. some part of it TO
Won Moltke and Frederick. but also some
part of It 10 Chatham and to Pitt some
part of 1t to Wslpole and to Burke, some
part of it TO Luther and to Knox. some part
ofyit TO Lincoln aud to Jefferson. to un-
daunted leaders and the shining lights of
nations and of men.
There Is a patriotism of peace, q higher
and deeper patriotism than We celebrate
with our rhetoric on the Fourth OF July
and on Memorial day. Patriotism should
be coDterminal with the Nation and not
with the army. Centennial with all the
citizens of this great land, and not only
with It's regiments and men of war. Every
farmer, every citizen. every lawyer, every
doctor. every minister. every layman should
be q patriot. We all should be patriots.
the civilian doing his common daily duties
as well as the soldier moving forward under
the hlare of bugle TO the conquest of the
foe. 1t 10 u lesson that we all should learn
that the American citizen cannot pay his
debt to oyalty, cannot Day his debt TO his
Nation by the spreadeaglelsm of the
orator, by the bombast and tinsel of the
professional rhetorician or even by the
strswing of q few flowers on the graves of
Its great and heroic dead. Patriotism in
It's deeper sense means loyalty TO liberty
for liberty Is the congenial element aud
unique crown of man. Man 10 born to he
free. and constraint Ia fatal TO his powers
fatal TO his happiness. fatal TO his enter
prise and his peace. Constrain his body a
YOU may. and vet he may rise by reason of
the aspiration of the spirit into the en-
pyrean and sing great songs and achieve
immortal fame. BuAyan wrote the Pill
grim's Progress Ia Bedford jail. Epictetus
spoke his beautiful and immortal gospel
whilst has hands We're bound with the
letters of the slave: but there Is no great
LIE for either man or nation without lib