The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-21

America is to be as dear to you as the apple of your eye.
 To her you owe much, for from her resources and energy you reap your sustenance.
 From her boundless store of freedom you glean your happiness. Her sheltering arms have been about you, and will ever keep about you and press you to her heart, so long as you | Keep her interests pure. You are not asked to forget your home of youthful days, but you are | bound by a law that knows no relaxa- ton, to keep this fair land ever and al- ways rising higher in the scale of hon. or, uprightness and truth. | Such is to be achieved not by the null titude, but by the individual member of | the commonwealth.
 It is personal responsibility, and per sonal accountability that ever stands as the bulwark of either national or do- nestle peace.
 | Every man his brothers keeper, when vice and lust are throwing out their fangs of harm; every man his brothers | keeper when the hand of the ungodly would cast that brother down; and then | each man will keep the nation pure,
 that each fellow being may be a reel pient and promoter of the nations | good.
 Let your energies, if they be pure, as
 God grant they may always be, be di-
 rected ever for the right. f When 6 cause is just, throw your | whole soul into that cause, and let par
 ty and prejudice go to the winds; "the
 Lord God omnipotent rejgneth" in
 America as elsewhere to be your shield
 and defence in the battle with the | tempter.
 The true British heart, I believe to-
 day. would strike down even the Brit
 ish flag, rather than have it wave over man false to Americas interests or l Americas colors.
 The flag of royalty will never shelter
 unfaithful men, be they where they | may; nor would royalty ask that the | banner of freedom protect son prodi- gal on his own soil, and prodigal on this
 of Americas possessing.
 And I think I speak your sentiment
 when I say that a man that is true to
 himself will be man true to this, the
 land of his adoption; he chose it; it did
 not choose him; and upon him comes
 the responsibilities of his choice. 1 So we gladly reach out the hand and welcome all that come to us for good, and float out the ensign of our nation, whose very colors speak forever of a higher life than that which a self end
 suggests.
 The red, white and blue is not alone the emblem of the union of states and ,, hence of strength, but they are the en-
 blems of the work of Almighty God The red points not to blood shed upon the battlefield for the lifting of oppres- sion's yoke, but it points to that red
 tide that flowed from the river side of the Son of God, who on Calvarys hill and Calvary's cross willingly let it flow
 that the yoke of mans tormentor might be forever destroyed.
 The white points on to the purity of life, that comes alone from the cleans
 ing power of that blood, and weaves al last robe for them who have made 5 their souls white in the blood of the Lamb; and both combined tell all the world that what the apostle said is true, that by the stripes of the Son oi God ye were healed. And then the blue, bespangIed as it is ]. with stars, tells of the resting place ot those who by the blood, and by the pur.
 flying power of it's tide, reacn a haver !, where the trusting soul, the honest lov | CT of his country, would ever be, wheI
 "life's long shadows break in cloud,es: love-"
 . When you go to your homes tonight | filled with the memories of this service ; do not let those thoughts crowd out tht | memory of Him whose watchful ey,
 has ever been your protection. 7 While your minds may dwell upon th /. queen, do not let them forget Him, "b! | Whom kings reign and princes deere :, justice"
 God and Christ must receive homo
 before men.
 n To God the Father, to God the Son, t |. God the Holy Ghost. the everlasting , Trinity, let your prayers ascend, tha <. the daughter of Great Britain who ha n done virtuously, may yet be spared fo = many years, and be given in full meas e ure the peace of God; that she may b
 ever filled with sense of Gods good q ness, and that she may daily increas e in Thy Holy Spirit more and more, un !, til she come unto Thy everlasting king S dom.''
 l. That to you may come as it neve
 came before, a feeling of your own de Il pendence upon power that worket I, "for good to them that love God, t n them who are called according to Hi
 purpose"
 e The manliness of man rises to tn IS highest pinnacle in the sight of God }; abounding love and mercy when H 0 sees that man upon his pended knee e and hears him say Our Father. e What the church of Christ wants to y day, and what the world most positive e ly needs, is men who under the powe ,t of Jesus Christ are simply and only ask $ ing, What is my duty?-men whose i'm d polling motive Is principle.
 Will you, my brethren, swing int $ line as soldiers of the cross? IS This is your duty; this is your bound
 en service.
 l. Will you not let the example of tn
 good women of whom we have spoke l. stimulate you to cling fast to the onl 1t begotten Son of God, who has been he n, guide and stay; and believe me, He wi s ever be yours if you will only let Hir
 come unto you.
 le Thus saith the Lord that create d thee; have called thee by name; tho
 art mine"