The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-11-25

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but this is not true. The nations of
the world have heard the guns from
our floating forts and will never dare
to strike at America. 1t is well to
celebrate peace for it has dawaed,
and we also celebrate the blessing of
power among our joys. We may re-
joiCe in the blessing of national piety
above those of plenty. prosperity and
peace. Never nation had So much
piety and righteousness woven into
it's life as America.
P1ETY OF THE PRESIDENT.
Comn!cnt was here made on the picty
of the president of the United States
and a spirited word picture of Commo-
dore Philips and his recognition Of
the hand of the Almighty God in pro-
tecting our vessels was given.
The keyword of our nation is "Liher-
ty." In this nations greatly differ.
I tnto the Hebrews it was their rclg-
ion. The Greeks held culture above
everything, the Romans, dominions,
and Europe her military power. Amer
| lea boasts of her freedom. 1t is the
| prettest, faireSt land the sun ever
| shone upon. 1t lay hidden during the
! centuries and while all the devices and
! 2ystems of progress in the old world
| failed, God reserved the era of enlight-
| enment for America, for His experiment
| of eternal liberty. The emancipation
| proclamation has been so written and
shaded by a cunning hand that from
| its pages stands out the face of Lir-
| coin. The nations history has been
so written that it's keyword is liberty.
| But, while America may be the cradle
of liberty it Is not the birthplace. That
was away back on Calvary where
| Christ opened his heart, from which
| flowed the rill that encarnadined the
| world.
| Civil liberty is but the reflection of
| religious liberty. This began to flame
near the opening Of the sixteenth CEN
tury, when Raphael revealed his in
| spiration by his brush and Michael
Angelo released angels from stone;
when Wicklife walked amid Bibles
chained to the pulpits and with thun-
| derOus blow broke the shakes that lib
Grated the Bible; when Martin Luther s
| conscience brought him to realize the
truth that made men free and mailing
| up his thesis struck the cords that
| liberated conscience: when Columbus
| w9lliing the seas of discovery carved
a continent on the map of the world
| ana released it from the confines of
| the ocean.
RESERVED FOR LIBERTY.
God reserved America for liberty
There is no advancement in civilization
| until civil liberty is secured. Here we
behold the new idea in the new world
Il was not a free government because
the people coming here desired it. They
never thought of it as SUCH but only
as free for their own little sect and
| under their own tyranny, but it is
in spite of this that America is free
They fled from the moderation Of home
! The EpisCOpals to the south where the
| Nirginias were Il land of milk and
| honey for the Episcopals. .he Puri.
| tans to Massachusetts, where the dom.
inant spirit of England made it new
| England. The Roman Catholics tC
| Maryland. the Quakers to Pennsyl.
vania, but the individual statecraft
! was preserved and the religions Wert
as bitterly opposed to one another as
they were across the sea. 1t was cas-.
ier to adjust commercial than relig,
ious differences. They settled every
other question but that. There would
have been no United States without
this liberation.
The speaker then gave a brilliant
portrayal of the scenes Of July !, 1I16
at the old state house, when the wOrlC
hushed its heart Ia hear what the mex
step of the marvellous new nation wOul,
be. 1t was motley people that cam,
tritncr, but they laid the foundation
of good morals, good society, good ed
ucation and good government. Amer
ca was but six years old when her frs
university arose. She has been so bus,
ever since in the work of education
that when the face of war arose sh
was unprepared. She had spent mil
lions for religion and schools, but llttl
for defense. But her protection was il
the education of the people.
4 GREAT WORK.
In two months she built a navy an,
marshalled a host of 2OO.O 600 citizen sol
diers for her honor There were thos
who laughed. They don't laugh today
Spain called us pigs and in their pic
tured representations Of Americans an,
America a pigs face always appeared
The Indiana, the Texas, and our othe
WaI vessels were portrayed with
pigs snout at their bow. That ha
never appeared on the American gun
beat since the war.
'Che great power of America lay /,
her education. Americas education
serves well in every emergency. MI
Pierce then spoke of the evils of run
and of Sababth dcseCration Whicl
threaten our nation; and of the grca
significance of our flag, which he be
lieves will yet contain in the field q
blue a globe with a single star-th
star % Bethlehem.
He concluded with an allusion to on
raspor sibilities and stated that Will
tVo years ago we urged John Bull [
aid Armenia; now if Armenia shal
call for aid America will march to he
help at a weeks notice.
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