The Newtown bee., 1894-07-13
PATRIOTIC SERVICE,

A patriotic service was held at | the Methodist church, Sunday | evening, July l. Rev MT Gilbert's dis course was founded on 1st Tim. 2:1-2, "I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, | applications, prayers, intercession, and giving of thanks, be made for all men, for kings and for all that are in author ity; that we may lead quiet and peaca- ble life in all godliness and honesty" We are here taught and eXhorted to rec ognize at once the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and the
 privileges and duties connected with
 those relations. We should render wor
 ship, thanks,i and prayers to God, not
 only in behalf of ourselves, but also in behalf of our common humanity in gen.
 eral and in behalf of the several po- 1 litical families in which they are dis 1 tributed and subsist and in behalf Of | those who bear rule over them; to the
 end that public affairs may be we'll and
 wisely ordered for the promotion of quietness and peace, and that Gods
 children may everywhere duly revere
 Him and govern their lives in accord ance with His will. And as civil gov ernment is an universal necessity and an
 universal reality and divine ordinance, the Christian minister is to give instruc- tion to those under his charge that they l render cordial submission to those that bear rule over them, and that they con- tribute their due share toward the SUD- l port of the government, and that they evince their interest in the public wei
 fare by offering in it's behalf supplica' tions, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks. Evidently the. e.welfare of { community or nation cannot be founded y on indifference to it ou the part of those
 having it in charge. Whether the gov
 ernment be autocratic or popular, goot
 character and pure principles are indis pensable to those entrusted with it's re
 responsibilities. Whoever then be th'
 rulers they need the prayers of Christian
 and should have them. We are at pres
 ent reminded of these privileges and du
 ties by the proximity of the anniversar.
 that commentaries our nations natiy
 lCy. lsluS SpedhtT utic IcNicWSu Sh
 colonization of this continent by tn
 Spanish and the French and the late
 establishment of 13 English col
 onies oH the Atlantic coast.] Quee
 Elizabeth named the region discovere {, by Raleigh, Virginia as memorial c
 her state in life. Within it the settle
 ment of Jamestown was planted on tn
 James river in the reign of her successor
 James I, in 1907. Representative go'
 ernment in America commenced whe
 the colony elected house of burgesse
 in 1919, and was practiced to greatt
 or less extent in the settlements thi v followed. The colonists, whether em Y grants from England, Scotland, Ireland ! Germany, Holland, France, or Scand
 navia, were generally Christians in SC Ie n, timent, profession and I think may ad at largely at least, in practice, and und at- the control of the British governmer sTl fIi enjoyed religious freedom. If the ge were exceptions to toleration they on at established the rule. The result h
 been that independency, Episcopac T Presbyterianism, Quakerism, Rom
 Catholicism, Lufheranism, Methodist 'n' Calyinism, Armenianism, indeed alme IF. every type of denominationalism knov n'' anywhere, has found place and had fl