Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1897-11-09
fAvORS THE SALUTE.
A Communication Anent the Patriotic
Salute Controversy.

| Salute Controversy.
"Salute-A testimony of respect or
Difference Are the Seventh Day Ad-
ventists jealous because God is respect
ed and acknowledged by salute else
where than within church walls? Our
| forefathers, who gave us the flag, saluted
Him and it at the same time, and taught
their children to do the same. Ought
we to act contrary to their teaching? If
il was good and right in their time, is it
not good and right now? We need and
should have more religion (love) in the
world than we have at present The
divisions among Christians prevents us
from getting all that we need from the
church. Apathy or indifference prevents
our cultivatlng it at home. and if we can
acquire or get it from the schools or
have it taught to our children by all
means let US do so. By all means keep
church and state separate, but to say that
a child shall not, in school, make use of
anything he may have learned at church
would be like saying he should not read
the Bible in church, because he had
learned how to read at school. If thing
or act is good and right in one place, or
at one time, it is equally good and right
in another place and at any other time.
"Train up child in the way he should
60" "In all thy ways acknowledge Him
and He shall direct thy paths" This
country needs strong, patriotic, religious
| loving) men and women and | think if
we saluted God in the school or place of
business half as often as we salute our
friends, land He is the best friend Of all)
and would decorate our churches with
flags and other beautiful things, we would
have them; for, as well as being duty,
1t would be a greater pleasure also to 60
to both Of them. The state has no right
to require any religious exercise, as such.
neither has it the right to forbid ii, as
patriotic exercise. "Render unto God
the things that are Gods" but do not
walt, necessarily until Saturday or Sun
day to do it. He will accept it al any
! time or in any place. while (when)
we have time let us do good Not only
the pupils of Boulder, but every human
being, are required, but have been asked
to give their hearts to God. "My son,
give me thine heart" There are many
so-called gods but only one God. All
mankind should be wor shippers of the
same God.
|. The infdel and the pagan should wor-
ship the same God that we do, tor the
commandments, "Thou shalt have none
other Gods but me-" and Thou shalt
not make to myself any craven (worked)
image" applies to them as strongly as
TO US, and if they were here they would
be expected to conform to our laws and
rules. Everyone should conform to the
laws of the country in which he lives, |
even to observing the legal holidays of
that country.
Under our constitution anyone can
worship or not, as they please, if they do
not disturb other worshippers. No, the
pagan has not the God given right to
worship his own work, for our, as we be-
leve, the true God, has expressly forbid
den him to do SO. No. pagan or an in.
hdel in this enlightened age, and in this
country, should not and does not get the
same consideration as Christian. 1t is |
the duty of every man to worship God
and, if they neglect that duty, it is the
duty of their fellows to teach, not compel,
them to do their duty. If we do not love
our country, which we see every day,
land how can we if we are not taught?)
how can we love God, whom we have
not seen? If there was less clubbing
and hair splitting over forms and cere-
monies in our homes, schools and
churches, which tends to drive not only
the young but the old out of them, there
would be fewer criminals, less poverty
and suffering, and more humanity in the
world than there is at present. If we
know no good of a person or thing that
is good to the majority, we can keep
silent. Let those who are faultess. and
only those, be the first to discourage any
thing that may do some good.
GEO. R. MOORE.