The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1898-05-19
AT THE CHURCHES.
THE VOICE OF FREEDOM AS A
PULPIT EDITORIAL.
LIFE IN THE AMERICAN NAVY.
Large Crowd Attend the congregational
Church and See How American
Ships are Operated Rev. Roblee
Advises Traitors.

Advises Traitors.
At the Park Avenue M. E. church
Sunday morning Mr.. Naylor took for
his topic: The Minute Men of '9S. :"
He said in part
The g Minute Men of '99" are just as
loyal as their great grandfathers in or
ganization and spirit. The militia of
today is the outgrowth of that of rs
and is as loyal, as ready to respond to
! the nations call. The modern minute
men have the greater odds of a foreign
land and a death brooding climate to
| face.
The difference IL inspiration may be
suggested in that TIE minute men OF
'76 fought only for the home and native
land. which takes precedence as to
duty, but those of '98 fight for an alien
race on foreign soil, which certainly
takes precedence as to loftiness of
spirit. By so much as befriending a
helpless, outraged people is greater
than self defence; by so much as other
ism is greater than selfsm; by so much
much as charity transcends duty: by
so much may the motives ofthe minute
men of '98 transcend the motives Of
their ancestors in '76.
am not in sympathy with the senti-
ment that is spread over the country
as the motto of the war, Remember
the Maine" does not represent the
spirit of this war on the part Of the
United States. If so then we are living
lie to the world for we profess to be
in the war for humanity's sake. The
real genius, the inspiration of our
part in this war has been moulded
through these years of waiting in al
most uncomfortable sympathy, while
brutal Spain butchered her helpless
subjects at our doors.
~
Some think to do the United States
honor by comparing the advance upon
Cuba with the Crusades of the 18th
century The Crusades were inspired
by hate, by greed of gain, by love of
adventure, by low superstition that
attempted to rescue the empty sepul-
cher from the MosIems. The Crusader
of '98 is impeled by love for common
humanity, by the spirit of self sacrifice,
by the demands of an educated people
for higher civilization, by the deter
mination to break the shackles Of
virtual slavery from men born to be
free and thus speed the conquest of the
living Christ.
Harper's Weekly furnished an excel
lent Illustration of the spirit of the
minute men of 1913. Above the clouds
were the soldiers of the Revolution of
1912, of 1847, of 1860 -'64, and from the
clouds they looked down upon the boys
of today marching toward Cuba. The
artist revealed the real conception by
representing the hero of 81 who fought
for the freedom of the slave saluting as
the army in review passed by.
From this point Mr.. Naylor made
application of the thought of Minute
men, to the church, holding that the
church was the militia of God for con
quering the evils in the world, and
appealing to the church to be true to
it's trust and worthy of its high calling.
In the evening the pulpit editorial on
+" Voices of Freedom" took the form of
selections from Lowell's " Present Cri-
ses," Tennyson's Revenge" Whit
tiers Stanzas for the Times" and
closing with the following stanzas, also
from Whittier:
Hear it, Old Europe! we have sworn
The death of slavery it falls,
Look to your vassals in their turn,
Your poor dumb Millions crushed and worn
Your prisons and your palace walls
o lxingly Notwithstanding show
What deeds in Freedoms name we do;
Yet know that ev ry taunt ye throw
Across the waters, goads our slow
Progression towards the right and true.
| On then, my brothers! every blow
Ye deal is felt the wide earth through
| Whatever here uplifts the law
Or humbles Freedoms hateful foe,
Blesses the Old World through the New.
Take hearth The promised hour draws near
I hear the downward beat of wings,
And Freedoms trumpet sounding clear;
| Joy to the people!-wOe and fear
To new-world tyrants, and old-world kings,
| At The Congregational Church.
Another patriotic service was given
at the Congregational church Sunday