The times., 1897-06-21
The Stars and Stripes Flutter
from Pulpit and Altar.
CHILDREN HONOR OLD GLORY
Patriotic Flag Day Services AT
Calvary Baptist Chureh-Songs of
Devotion and Pratse-st STIRRING
Addresses by Messrs. Shailen-
berger and Davis.

tiops notable addresses were delivered
by w. S. ShaIlenberger, Second Assistant
Postmaster eneral, and Webster Davis,
Assistant Secretary OF the Interior Then,
too. a letter OF regret from President
Mckinley was read.
The church was thronged. and the
ma jority OF the assemblage was OF chu
dren. American ensigns swung from the
choir balcony and fluttered in other parts
of the church American daisies decorated
the platform Tie services opened with
the singing Of hymn No. 266, beginning:
"oh. worship the King all glorious above,
Anu grateI uIiy sing MS wonuenui IoNe.
Our Shield and Defender, the ancient OF
days.
Payilioned in splendor and girdied WIN
praise
scriptural reading by Pierson II. Bris-
tow, superintendent Of Calvary Sunday-
school, aud responses by the scholars ioi-
lowed The organ and choir rendered Hail
Columbi;.." and a young man advanced
to the front of the speakers stand, pre-
sented a s;lkeu Union flag, and the great
assernblage saluted this by the wavin-; 0f
haudkerchiefs Rev. DR.. Samuel II. Green,
pastor Of the church, offered prayer, which
was followed by the recitation, Union
and Liberty" by Miss Annie Goddard.
The singing of Beloved America by
the junior department of tiie Sand day-sclJoi
came next. and then Pastor Green made
a little speech Ci welcome. He extended
a weicorGe tC all without regard to creed
or age who came as American citizens 10
nav homage TO the flag. Next 70 the
white flag of Emanuel himself, he said,
came the star Spangled Banner Ii was
gratifying that in the great and intense
rush of life we could pause for moment
TO salute the ensign Of our Christian land
Sunday-school Supt. Bristow introduced
Mr. shallenbarger, who opened bis address
by referring to the audience as My dear
young friends He then explained that
he meant all those who felt young, fos in
that way he could slight no one. He won
dered, il flags could talk, if that one
which floated above and around them
could not tell story of heroism aud
devotion Then the speaker recalled that
flags could talk, and he told his dear
young friends OF how the white flag said
peace in a language which the people
OF all nations understood; OF how the red
flag smoke of danger and defiance, and the
yellow flag of pestilence and disease. He
reviewed how sea folks, and some land
folks, for that matter, too, could hold
lcng range conversations with flags. But
thought Mfr. Shallenberger, the flag of all
flags was the flag of our country, the
symbol of our Government. He called up
some of the memories that clustered around
a torn and stained old battle-flag, and
how eloquently it spoke to the men who
had fought under it. He retold the story
of Henry of Navarro, who, after having
called his men TO attention, bade them
follow ther standard, and if that fell, 10
rally round his white crest He bade the
children to follow the cross of Christianity
and the flag Of the American republic.
At the close OF the address by Mr. Shallen-
berger the choir aud audience sang on
ward, Christian Soldiers" and several
hundred Of tie younger children of the
Sunday-school, for whom there were not
seats enough in the main church, marched
through, each little one carrying a flag.
About q hundred very small children,
ranging In age from two to five or six
years, took positions on the speakers
stand, and at a signal from their teacher
repeated in chorus, II give my heart and
my head to my God and my country: One
country, one language, one flag" These
children sang a patriotic air and saluted
by waving tiny flags.
Webster Davis, Assistant Secretary of
the Interior, followed. AS he looked upon
this great multitude OF children and young
people. he could not help thinking what
would become of the country were It
not for the Sunday-school, the common
school and the church. Some people had
said that this Government is only an ex-
pertinent and when the country was riven
by civil war the despots on the crests Of
bloody thrones laughed and cried, al told
you so.'' But if the boys and girls of the
land were taught lessons of patriotism
in the Sunday schools, the common schools
aud the church disaster would never noine
again. He said he had nothing to say
against other flags, but that this flag
should be good enough for u.s. Itwas go,d
enough for US. What this country wanted
was a little more patriotism and little
less bending OF the knee toaristocracy.
AS Mr.. Davis brought out this senti-
nent with strong oratorical effect the au-
dience, contrary 10 custom, broke forth in
applause lie struck another poprla chord
when he said that many Americans
amassed great wealth and then gave away
q big measure Of it as a cowry toscme sin
He would rather have an American son,
stained with the dust Of the farm or the
CRIME of the anvil, than ten-acre lot
full of the dudes of European nobility"
He drew a brilliant picture of a stalwart,
noble American, with his well l-muscled d arms
barred TO his work and the sweat of honest
labor on his face.
He wanted the children to know that
tits was the finest and grandest country
in the world It's mountains We're the
grandest, its fields of waving grain Were
the broadcast, its orchards of red and
yellow fruit We're the most beautiful and
its mineral deposits were the richest
He advised the people of the East that
when they had money to expeRd on a
foreign trip, they ought to use it to go
West. He wanted Americans to see
their own country. He fired some hot
shot into those Americans who tour .or-
eign lands without knowing any thing about
the grandeur OF their own country He
wanted the whole world to salute tie
Stars and Stripes as the flag of the free
He spoke of the United States as the
reservoir of the worlds wealth.
Liberty, he said, was not the child of
ignorance, but of education and of PRO
gress. The spirit of liberty had established
free institutions in this country and had
sent the invitation TO the oppressed in
alllands to come and share in the benefits
Of popular government. He said that W e
had once great family trouble, but sha t
it was passed and the Union was stronger
than ever. The white lily of peace was
growing out of the fields that had been
red with blood. The men who had FOL