The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-07-11
THANKS FOR
ARMY AND NAVY
Returned in Nearly All the
Churches Yesterday.
JUDGE L0RE'S STALK AT GRACE.
II Was a Patriotic One And
:. Aroused Much En-
i thusiasm.

In nearly all tho churches yesterda
special services were held in accordanc
with the proclamation of President Nc
kinlcy requesting service at which TO re
turn thanks for the SUCCESS Of tho arm
and navy. At Grace Church In the eve
ming the exercises wero the most elaborate
Chief Justice Lore was the princlr al speaI
] or. His subject was "What is the Ameri
can Outlook" Among other things hi
said:
Nations have their characters les jus,
as markedly as individuals, and their for
ces, like ihosa Of individuals, may bt
used to bless or curse mankind. The
United States in this process OF growth
have attained &c a stalwart national man
hood and must now choose their nationa
vocation. What shall it be? Shall 1t bt
nationalism or imperialism? In Other
word, shall all our forces bs welded by
one man 10 ens!ave the many at his caprice
or shall they be turned 10 the lifting up Of
mankind, in the exccu' ION OF the purpose
of thu Almighty
| "The wnr of the Revolution was our
birsh There have been three baptisms of
birth boyhood and youoh. They were all
home strurgles, fights for liberty, life and
existence. Now We are to take p place and a
hand in the outer world. AT the call of suf-
fering Cuba We have entered the field to
help the suffering,
| melted into the blue OF an united people
| The stars and bars are merged into The
stars and Stripes, Tho daughters of the
f! North and South have unied to send their
| loved ones in tho one uniform Of blue, un-
der tho one flag Of tho Union to sound the
battle cry of freedom on foreign lands.
IA D,wey from Vermont; Hobson
from North Carolira, Wilson from
Delaware, n Wheeler from Alabama,
Roosevelt from Now York, Lee from
Virginia, with many other like are NOV
ing Side by side and shoulder to shoulder
under the inspiration of the batlle song OF
freedom. The last trace Of the bloody
CHI. IN has disappeared Possibly this Is
ono blessing OF the war.
ITO my mind it is the most critical point
in our history Upon our choice made
now may depend tho continued favor of
the God OF nations, and to determine
whether in tho divine economy we shall
bo His chosen instrument for human good
or fall into corruption and decay like the
nations who have gone before us. We are
Just at the forks of the highway Of nations.
The one fork leads to imperialism, corrup-
tion and death, and the other fork to
nationalislD, purity and life. The one
follows ths divine will, the other human
ambition.
"Hitherto we have kept our hands clear
of foreign complication. Under the warn.
ing of Washington we have avoided en-
tangling alliances with the world and
have sought to develop our own marvel
Gus resources, asking only under the Mon.
roe Doctrine hat no foreign hand be laid
upon us. accompanied with the implied
promise that we would not Interfere In
their pCli les.
'lt is claimed that our government and
system are capable of indefinite expansion
That we can digest and harmouize all Ea-
tions and peoples that may come to us.
Such policy would be but tho beginning
of the end of cur usefulness as nation.
We. certainly do not need more territory.
In 1889 the thirteen original state' con-
tained about 1902 900 square milea. BY
the purchase from France of tho province
of Louisiana, aud of Florida from Spain
by the annexation Of Texas by the Mexl.
can cession, following that war, of the
second Mexican cession, of the Gasden |
purchase and the Alaska purchase our
area in square miles is shown to DO 8, $780,
09l.
"Our domain stretches from ocean to
ocean, from tho great lakes to the gulf of
Mexico. 1t Is magnificent empire, far
larger than those of Greece and Rome in
their prime and exceeding the widest
dreams Of an Alexander or Napolen. 1t
is within trfle as large as all Europe,
embracing every variety of cline and soil
with untold agricultural and mineral
wealth.
LET us remember that here in this West
ern world the rights Of mankind were first
vindicatei by a government founded upon
the Divine basis of the duty and the re.
sponsibility Of each individual factor. Hero
individual liberty was made. and each man
was created king, responsible for the char
acter and operation of his government Our
failure has been frequently and confident
ly predicted, but hitherto the Lord has led
lis and held us in the hollow of His hand.
We stand alone among all people. as q ma
ton distinguished from an empire, where
every man is crowned a king. and has no
superior in privileges before the law
"If Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippine
Islands shall fall to us az victors, set lhem
free, and thus start the parliament Of free
people, who shall look to us as their leader,
while we still keep in touch wi b tho Di-
vine purpose Of human liberty and devel-
opment. The oppressed, Of the earth OK;
pect this much of lis. Itrembe whom
think in this Godgiven oppor unity. we
may be driven possibly by public clamor
In the road Of imperialism. and perish as
tho nations of old. The time has come
The nations Of the earth are looking to see
what road we should take, the imperial or
the national. Let annexation come, but
let 1t be the annexation of love and peace
free nations grouping around this leader
of the free"
DR.. II. A. McCurdy preached in Con.
tral Church in the evening on Our Vic
tories and his text from Psalms 90, 12; n
God We shall do valinntly, for
he it is hal shalktread down our enemies a
Dr. McCurdy spoke of the wars that i
strained our national fabric, and how in
the end the United States became power,
welcomed end feared by all foreign repub.
lies and empires, not because we were A
great, but because God blessed u.s. n
Tho speaker also spoke of the conditions +
In Cuba prior to tho war, and hon the de- !,
struclion CT the Maine. ave hold Spain :, :
guilty Of wilrul, deliberate murder with
malice aforothought, declared DR.. Nc f.
Curdy. Spain is blot, n stigma, a stencil 8
stroyed the Maine. Nothing then could il
avert tho war. Tho cloud gathered and !,
burst more than 500 miles from Cuba" 5
DR.. McCurdy then portrayed tho bril- +,
liant victory Of Admiaai Dewey, in Manila .,
bay, the invasion of Cuba by our troops z
md the destruction of the flower Of Spaln's Il
ieet by Commodore Schley, and the sur "
'ender Of Admiral Ceyera and the survi- 81
,ors of his crews. THE marvellous sue n
,ess Of the United States fleets are because -, .,
Gods blessing is upon u.s. said the /,
preacher.
"In less than three months we have won r.:
tho unqualified admiration Of the world r.
aid Pastor McCurdy, and uninvited we i,
ake our place among the worlds railing
powers Eastern problems will nnw find q
10 solution until after the United States b
hall have besn heard" h.
"Iho United States has taken position. r
We have awakened the world to consider
hat the question Of oppression is ques- :,
ion not to be settled on commercial T,
grounds only, but in the in nterests of hu- -
nanity. The Eastern question veers into r.
his question of humanity. China must 4
10 dealt with on humanitarian grounds N
nd also on commercial grounds. Gods a,
ruth is marching on. Why! Because his "
'lcssing is upon tie United States of =
\merica, Let us thank the Lord God.
'raise him for our vic ories for widening
ur influences for new duties, and seek His
uidance in our mission to the world, and
or God"
IN OTHER CHUR RICHES.
At Wesley Church, Rev. W. w. Sharp
reached on the subject. The Destruction
Cervcras fleet" Rev. W. Frederick
,cwis talked to his congregation on SIM