The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-05-09
A SERMON FOR THE HOUR
REY. b. M. Triple SPEAKS ON
"UNDER THE FLAG"

Referred to the Destruction of the Maine
and Dewey's Victory at Manila-The
High Purpose of Our Nation in the Con-
duct of the Wharf.-The Need of Unselfish
Loyalty.
At the Epworth M. e. church yester-
day morning the pastor, the Rev. B. M
Triple, preached an eloquent and pa
triotic sermon from II Samuel 1928:
"And all the country wept with loud
voice." His subject was "Under the
Flag
After feelingly referring to the de-
struction of the Maine February Is and
the victory at Manila, the speaker
said:
We are a chosen people. If ever the
divine arm was stretched over land,
that land is our own. And He is lead
ing us not merely for the development
of ourselves, but for the glory of the
world. Among the hamlets of Austen
field, England, is a little church, built
of brick. A cold, bare, unipviting
place. Little did the woshippers dream
of the civil and religious movement
that was to start from within it's dingy
walls. But we, looking over the years
past, can see that the King of Israel
was in that place to lead a selected
band to Plymouth Rock. For my part,
I do not understand how one can study
the life and watch the progress of this
nation and fail to find in all the move
ments of God. The failure after failure in
the attempt to colonize and yet the per-
severance; storm driven upon the seas,
starved upon the land; vast and I'M
known country penetrated by score or
more of souls, and in the end con-
quered; a few small colonies, widely
separated in territory, and in friend
ship by rampant jealousies; drawn to-
gether after untold and agonizing eff
forts and formed in a vigorous nation;
beset by foreign rulers, warred upon by
the Indians, threatened by the ele-
1nents; establishing government that
came, not out of the past, legislating
not according to custom and precedent,
but from the conviction of an aWak-
ened conscience, a mind enlightened
and broadened by the conditions of a
new world. Strange that in a crisis,
Washington should be present to guide!
Strange that in an hour of doubt and
dismay, Father Abraham should step
forth with his faith and cheer! And
who shall say that God is not leading
America to-day? Spain long since sold
her birthright and ought to have for
feited her inheritance. I pity her I
pity the unfortunate boy-king. / pity
those in Spain who mourn for their
dead, but 1 pity also those who have
struggled under the yoke of an awful
bondage until to-day their cries are
reaching unto the eternal throne of
mercy. Fear not, for the great Mas
ter is over US. Strange that this hour
we see the closer fellowship of all citi-
zens, the unifying of the several sec
tions! Less than forty years ago they
were moulding the church bells of the
south into cannon. Whittier, within
the borders Of Massachusetts fairly
consumed by the wrath of an outraged
deity, was hurting his words of rebuke
at the Virginians,-
No slave-hunt in our borders,
No pirate on our strand
No letters in the Bay State,-no
Slave upon our land!'
But now the bells of the north and
the south ring joyously for nations
good, or toll solemnly over a nations
sorrow. Virginia and Massachusetts
with clasped hands swell the chorus
'My Country, 'Tis of Thee" From the
east there goes forth that mighty
hymn, columbia, the Gem of the
Ocean," and it's sound is borne on the
winds Of the west. Then from the
shores of the Pacific there echoes back
''The Battle Cry of Freedom God is
bringing this people together
Yes, more than this, He is bringing
together the Anglo-Saxon race We
can read the signs in the skies. What
a contamination for the close of the
twentieth century. England and
America hand in hand, not for war but
for peace. BY their physical powers
commanding the reverence of the
world, by those qualities which are in
herent in their souls developing the
highest possibilities of all races, rails
ing life into its visibler existence, fash
lCIlIS hIllSoOIIlS lIllO lie likeness OF
the heavenly. Gordon dies in far-away
Khartoum for humanity. The sailors
of the Maine give their lives off the
coast of Cuba for humanity. Let us
drape the two flags upon the monu-
ments raised to the memory of those
who have sacrificed all for the BROTH
erhood of man.
There are those who cry aloud that
we have passed the zenith of our great
ness. Greed, corruption, oppression
these have come and our doom is al
ready sealed. There are many evils in
our beautiful land, evils that if not
checked will undermine our strength
But I have not begun to despair.
What means these flags in our homes
and on our streets? Do they wave a
meaningless piece of silk? At a grand
encampment of the Army of the Re-
public at st. Paul two thousand chill
dren were dressed in red, white and
blue in such a way that when massed
together they formed a living repre-
sentation of the Stars and Stripes. The
veterans as they passed on parade
turned and saluted this copy of the
flag for which they had fought, made
up of the very blood and tissue of a
Younger generation There is hea rt