Evening journal., 1896-05-25
LIKE A CHOSEN PEOPLE.
Americans Blessed Like the
Jews Of Old.
PATRIOTIC SERMON TO loLDIBRs

history OF American Liberty ant
Growth and Compares it to the Historl
of Goods Chosen People"-JuaIor NE
chanios Also Addressed.
Rev. Vaughan 8 Collins preached a stir
ing patriotic sermon 10 Captain Evan s
Watson Post No 5 g. A R. Industry
Caur Gil No 25 Junior o u u A. NJ
and representatives of Old Glory Council
OF Delaware City, and q congregation
that completely filed the NJ r. sunday
school building at 1880 yeatei ~
National History in the Light of Divine
Providence Ia part tho minister said
One thing the Jew believed with al
his soul that Jehovah had called his
nation to be his own peculiar people
The Jew WAS right; for he could prove
his faith by the mere recital OF the facts
of his national history. Because OF their
divine origin and their divine guidance
they caused their national history to be
woveninto song and chanted as part
OF their religious worship
"Blt believe that Jehovah has called
our nation to be his own peculiar people
as sincerely as any Jew ever believed it,
It is my purpose to day, comrades Of the
& A. R. and gentlemen Of the Junior
Order Of United Workmen, TO give the
reasons for my faith BY a comparison OF
Gods dealings with the Jews and with
our own beloved nation.
Abraham WAS called to leave his home
In Uro of the Chaldees to seek an un
known land He saw It, received the
promise of 1t, but neither he nor his
children we're permitted to possess It for
centuries. SO Columbus was stirred to
seek an unknown land. he sailed on and
on, midst dangers and strange sights
and mutiDy OF crew until a new world
was found for Gods chosen ones Bat
more than a century passes beiore.any Of
the chosen ones possess" the new land
Of promise
when at last the Israelites are suffi =
ciently numerous to possess CanaAn's
affections, severe and manifold are neces
sary to make them leave Egypt to seek
tneir own land. SO In the case OF our
nation. AS long as conditions are at all
tolerable Gods chosea ones remained In
Earops Bat the land OF promise is
ready and they must come Read the
history Of Europe Of the fifteenth, six )
teenth and seventeenth csnturiss-it is
written In blold Prosecutions like that
Of the Huguenots AID Waldenses, mas
sacres like ST. Bartholomew are necessary
to compel our fathers to seek the land
prepared for them.
The Jews had a. wilderness Journey
of forty yeArs-of marching, and Tompta-
tion. We had a wilderness psriod Of TIC
years-from Jamestown TO the revolu-
tionary war.
"The Jew must cross Jordon to reach
his land OF promise. We, too had =
Jordon, the Declaration Of Independence
marked the day we passed from the wild
erness forever
The Jews under Joshua, must fght
seven years to conquer their land Wash
ington, our Joshua, had TO lead our
scattered forces in seven years cam
psign before our fathers could dare ctll
their God given land their own.
'Do you observe how Ia all these
particulars our national history parallels
that Of the JewE7 Do you not see the
hand of God iu it aL2
Strange rs 1t may seem, the men who
said Ia the Declaration OF Independence,
All men are born free and equal. later
on raid all that depended on tine color OF
\ mans skln. The irrepresslble conflict
was on. The South bells we'd in class and
caste. with all that implies private
schools, degraded labor, slavery. The
North believed in the masses, public
education, labor honorable for all, labor
First mere mutterings. then
clouds of darkness In the Missouri COM
promise. then notification, at last war.
with all its horrors. At Appomattox
slavery expired aud Grant gave Lee
receiptin full for the corpse OF the dead
surrendered to him there
God had again crowned the cause Of
freedom with success.
go. therefore, comrades, and scatter
flowers upon the graves OF tbs boys who
wore the blue. They fought, they fell
that the union might be preserved, and
that the flag OF our country might not be
trailed In the dust Strew f 3wers upon
their grassy beds. for they were worthy.
But II, perchance, you pass the spot
where liesione who wore the gray scatter
flowers upon him, too. He WAS no less
brave no less earnest. no less devout
than you. To the same Divine tribunal
he sprelled and the Almighty Judge
decided agsinst him Bear no malice,
but love him as an srring brother.
ITO the Junior Order let me say the
good work commenced by these heroes
must be completed by us. First, We
must crush the licensed saloon second,
We must maintain aud elevate our public
schools; thiri. We must sustain our
Christian Sabbath