The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-17
OUR G0ODLY HERITAGE,
An E1LINENTLY PATRIOTIC AND
SUGG ESTIYE DISCOURSE.

BY Rev. Mr.. Lines mt ST. Pauls Church.
Preached Yesterday Before the Govern
Or's Foot Guard and General David
Humphreys Branch Sons of the Ameri-
can RevOlutiOn-The Sermon in Full
Gods Providence as Seen in the History
of 1his Goodly Land-The Story of Pa
triotic Devotion and Self Sacrifice of '76
Recaned-sOme Menacing Evils of To-
Day-This Nations Future.
A large congregation attended St.
Paul's church yesterday morning, when
Rev. e. S. Lines, rector, preached a
very excellent sermon before a large
congregation, composed in part of the
members of the Second Company Gov
ernors Foot Guard and the General
David Humphreys branch of the Con-
necticut Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution. The church was
filled in every part and the patriotic
character of the occasion added spe-
cial interest to the occasion.
The music was particularly fine, the
anthem especially from the great COM
poser, Bach's Whitsumtide cantata,
MY Heart Ever Trusting" which was
sung by Mrs, Nora Russell-Haesche,
The chorus work Of st, Paul's choir
is excellent, showing the attention
paid by the able organist and choir
master, Professor f. A. Fowler.
Mr.. Lines sermon was as follows:
1.-THE land that I gave for an inherit
ance unto your fathers. A
pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the
hosts of the nations. '-Jeremiah iii,
49, 10.
In such words the prophet of God
was inspired to speak of the land which
God gave to His people in the old time.
In like words the Jews thought of that
fair land which lay between the deserts
and the Mediterranean Sea. The
Psalmist sang for his people and taught
them to sing Il have goodly heritage"
The memory remained of that time
when after the long wandering in the
terrible wilderness of dreary sands
and bitter waters the eyes of the chill
dren of Israel were blessed with the
sight of the land of Canaan. The peo-
pie knew that God had given unto the
fathers, and so unto them rich inher-
itance "a pleasant land, a good1y in
heritage" In the changes which have
come through war and misgovernment,
the Holy Land to-day but imperfectly
resembles the land into which Joshua
led the Hebrews and in which David
and Solomon reigned That was a land
of brooks of water, of fountains and
depths that spring out of valleys and
hills; a land Of wheat and barley
and vines, land wherein they
might eat bread without scarceness. 4
This good and pleasant land was Gods
gift to His people. But like all gifts
from God, it was to be obtained by
exertion and to be held upon conditions.
1t was an inheritance, because of the
promises made to Abraham, but like
every Inheritance, it carried with it
responsibility. 1t might also be for
feited, as indeed it was, by unfaithful-
ness.
No one can read the description and
the praises of the Holy Land without
thinking of our own land, its beauty
and fruitfulness The Hebrews were
foreigners. That is what the word He
brew means-a foreigner from beyond |
the great river. So Abraham had come
a stranger and foreigner, into the land
of Canaan, to make his home. So,
many generations after, his descend
ants came, out Of exile and slavery in
Egypt, into the land of Canaan for
their home. And we are all foreigners
from across the great sea, we or our
fathers, late corners to this new land |
Some came before the others but none |
very long ago. We follow the ancestral |
line across the ocean, most of us to |
some spot in that little island off the |
northwest coast of Europe, from which |
a large part of the world Is ruled, and |
from which language and letters have |
been transplanted to nearly every land. |
Our fathers came not here from a bar
rem and unpleasant land, but from one |
fair and fruitful. They left old and |
merry England, commonly with sad |
hearts, to make here new home, for
3the Anglo-Saxon race, to work out still |
further and in new ways, old ideas of |
liberty under law. 1t is by the Provi-
jdence of God that nations are set in
their places and their bounds are fixed
so it was in the Providence Of God |
that this fair land became the inherit
shnce of Anglo-Saxon people. with the
English love of liberty rather than the
heritage of Spanish cruelty and despot-
SIN. And here our fathers with their
traditions of liberty and law, made their
homes and laid the foundations of our
4
LII it's beauty and fertility, is a good |
and, such as Moses described, land
bf brooks of water, of fountains and
#Eepths that spring out of val
eys and hills, a land of wheat
: nd barley and vines, land
b. which men may eat bread without
*carceness, a land whose stones are
IRON and out of whose hills thou mayest
& ig brass. 1t is a rich and fair land
"a great that few of us know much
#f It, The labor and skill Of many gem
#rations have made it the goodly herit-
#ge it is and there is not in all the
rorld land richer or more kindly.
md here upon this western continent,
great people have made their home II
Ind have accomplished great things.
he confidence and enthusiasm of youth |
RE upon this people still, leading to
oastfulness. But there is national |
history in which to have honest pride. 7
here is good ground for self-respect
nd hope as regards the future, while {
the same time our confidence and /
bastfulness i'll become us. E
The land into which God led our faith {