The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-22
WAR SERMON BY DR.. CT. WORK
FITTING REMARKS ON ETHICAL Me-
CESSITY OF PATRIOTISM.
Resolution Instructing Mckinley to
DOWN. Pathetic Incident.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.


commissioners. No business of any kind
was transacted. and the only official ex-
pressions made were those in the way of
patriotic resolutions and speeches. Around
the pulpit was draped Cuban flag, while
each commissioner who was eligible wore
a G.. A. r. badge ON his breast or held in
his hand an American flag. For this occa-
sion Moderator Radcliffe resigned his place
to DR.. c. l.. work, of Cincinnati, who de-
livered a stirring sermon on Patriotic
Service" Among other things he said:
Patriotism does not refer to matters so
coarse and so far removed from refinement
and the true province of Christian living
that the church and good people generally
ought to have nothing to do with it. Pa
triotism has moral and ethical bearing. 1t
may even have a religious bearing. There
is a necessity for the cultivation of patriot
ism and for obeying it's dictates found in
the fact that there is a need for human So
ciety and different nations. The General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in
the United States does wen to pause in its
usual proceedings long enough to hold such
a meeting as this. When Napoleon was
ready to enter battle he called the attention
of his soldiers to the pyramids and said:
Thirty centuries are looking down upon
you There is more than words here. That
moment Napoleon's men found themselves
in line with the mighty armies of the
Caesars, the Martels, the Charlemagnes and
the Alexanders. So we as Presbyterians in
the service array ourselves with the With
erspoons and the hosts of Presbyterian pa
trtotS of revolutionary fame. A million
white hands reach up from patriotic graves
10 point the way. Shall we falter? Never!
One hundred years of heroic history are
looking down upon US to-day. Let our con-
duct be such as would not bring the blush
Of shame to the cheek of those who have
gone before
REPRESENTING GOD.
1--WE as a nation are the voice of God
among the nations of the earth. In our
struggle for the freedom of Cuba we must
remember our character and be true to
that Being who has made US what we are.
Under the circumstances loyalty to the
cause of Cuba is loyalty to God In more
respects than one is the present struggle
to prove beneficial TO men. A readjustment
of political party lines and the consequent
settlement of questions which have been
waiting for settlement. A reunion of the
North and South. Mason and DixonS line
shall be obliterated in the smoke and cour-
age of patriotic struggle. The sons Oh the
blue and gray are soldering to-day in har-
mony where their fathers fought each other
to the death thirty odd years ago. The
nations of the world shall have an object
lesson in republicanSm Freedom shall be
advanced. We freed ourselves from British
tyranny, then we freed the negro slaves OF
the South; now we will free Cuba. An
Anglo-American alliance will complete the
glorious event and place with these two ma
tons the best of this world against the
worst, and the combination is impregnabe
God bless America and God bless Cuba, and
let the great Presbyterian Church empha-
size these thoughts by action to-day to the
glory of God. With the present difficulties
it is the hope of all that the reuniting of
the Northern and Southern Presbyterian
Churches will reach the point of being a
glorious reality
Throughout all the speeches there was
so much flag waving and applause that
until the audience had delivered three
cheers. At the request of some enthusiastic
commissioner between the speeches came
seasons of resolutions. One Of these offered
by DIR. PentecoSt, of California, touching
heavily on the talked of Anglo American
alliance, was of special Importance, and
was received with tremendous applause. 1t
was as follows:
FOR ANGLO SAXONISM.
''.That the assembly recognizes with pro-
found and devout gratitude the widespread
and sympathetic expression of fellowship on
the part of the British people with our own
country in the present crisis of international
history. Discerning in tEeir fellowship and
sympathy a common confession of faith
with u.s. in the solidarity of the Anglo-Saxon
race and those who have become affiliated
with us by blood alliance and political nat
uralization and in our common love and de-
votion to the cause OF universal human ana
political liberty: that we declare to be the
heartfelt desire that all old animosltleS mere
tofore existing between ourselves and the
mother country be buried under the new
rising tide of blood lInship, and that hence
forth the two great countries may be united
in the indissoluble union which shall make
for humanity, peace and righteousness.
DR. Pentecost, before the end of the Serv-
ice had amended the resolution in the fol-
lowing words: .
of the desires of the General Assembly of
the Presbyterian Church that all flags and
archives of the Confederacy now held by the
Northern States or the national government
be returned to the several States of the
South, where they f eelodg or adont,or 90 -
was stated that it savored too much of
politics. One of the affecting features of
the meeting arose during the speech of j.
native of North Carolina and was a Con-
federate soldier. He stated that the Union
of the North and South had more than ever
been accomplished by the first baptism of
blood on board the Winslow, where the
decks were covered by the common blood of
the Northern, Southern and colored men. In
blood spilled was Southern and the first life
offered up for Old Glory was a Southern
life. While speaking of the present common
line Barley, too full for utterance, reached
out his hand, and graspng that of a colored
man. Rev. David Brown, of South Caro-
lima shook il heartily with tears streaming
down his face AT this the assembly went
wild with enthusiasm, and men and women
alternately cried, cheered and waved flags
Remuneration of Spanish methods was
quite in order and was INDUCED in freely by
the various speakers. Dr. Merritt. of Chi
cago, touching on the Maine catastrophe
said: "As in Russia q guide post marks the
boundary line between European civilization
and Asatic barbarism, so the sunken Maine
marks the dividing line between honest war
fare and dastardly, cowardly treachery."
TEMPERANCE PROGRAMME.
An effort to bring up resolution against
allowing the sale of intoxicants in the
army camps and on board war ships was
not allowed TO be presented. Sunday will
be the day on which the much discussed
Princeton Inn trouble will be aired. A tenn
perance meeting has been announced for
the afternoon and number of commission
ers have their guns loaded against the time
of conflict over the Princeton Inn discus
sion. 1t is anticipated that there will he
persons high in the church will be severely
condemned.
At to-days session DIR. Henry C. Nc
Cook presented his report of the board of
relief for disabled ministers and the widows
end orphans of deceased ministers. showing
II &c be out OF debt. The report showed