The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-11-25
THE NEW AMERICA
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without money or without price all the
education be can absorb More than
that. We have a free religion.
Further, wherever the American fiag
waves a man mas the right 10 speak as
ne pleasss, unafraid and unhiudered
and he can print as he will. 4 free
| press IS another distinguishing char
| acteristic Of American civilization
! More than that we have invited the
| peoples OF the earth 10 share with Us
| IN our free institutions. II is said to-
! day that America represents every 9TH
! 81 nation better than that nation rep
| resents itself. We have almost strip
! ped Ireland bare. We have the cannv
ScOrchman with Us in great numbers
| We have the EnglishmaD. and in spite
! OF all that has been said. We have
/ proved within the past few months that
| blood is thicker than water The peO-
! pies Of the earth have come ill we
/ hardly know whether We are Anglo
! Saxon or not and we have not only
| invited them to come. but we have
| given them the privilege of the bal
! lot. These are the distinguishing char
| acteriSticS of the American national
| life, and has any other nation equalled
America in her progress, in her growth,
! in greatness and wealth during these
| J22 years of national existence. What
! has been her policy this century and a
! quarter of existence? She has been
saying that on the western continent
| We viii work out our own problems
undisturbed. She has told the coun-
| tries of the Old world that they must
| keep their hands off this western
! hemisphere and she would hold her
| self alOOf from their affairs, but sud
denly history, events-that is God.
nave taken her out of her isolation OF
40 years and linked her with letters
| Of steel to the Old world. Henceforth
there is no eastern or western hemi-
sphere. There is only one sphere
Americas sphere. For centuries Spain
| has been standing, at least so far as
her colonies were concerned, for a de-
| NAL Of everything distinctly Ameri-
| can. She has been forbidding equal
education, equal opportunity, equal
rights. In the time of President Jeffer-
| son it seemed an evil almost intoler-
| able. Grant wanted to suppress il,
| and so did Harrison and Cleveland. 1t
remained for VIM. Mckinley to declare
| that these conditions must no longer
exist.
Has the war with Spain been a
| righteous one? | declare it to be the
| most glorious in American history.
| We are proud of the American revolu-
Y
| ing for their own rights. We are
| proud of the war of 1872, for then our
! fathers were fighting for the rights of
| their own citizens. We are proud of
| the Civil war, for then we were fight
| ing to right the wrong We ourselves
| had committed. In this war with
| Spain, for the first time in the history
| of the world, a people have faced ali
| the horrors of war, not for their own
| rights and liberties, but for the rights
and liberties of another people. Under
taken and finished in this spirit. it has
| been a righteous war. For the first
| time in the history of the world the
| Stars and Stripes have been raised
| over another land. not to come down
| until their people shall share the
rights and have the liberties that Am
| erica herself enjoys. 1t is with ma
| ton in regard TO its own existence as
IL is with an individual. 1t is to build
| itself up make the most of itself, but
! that is not the supreme end of its eX-
| istence If 1t be faithful TO it's mission
| its motto will be not Self for Self, but
Self for the World. For the new Am
| erica, the America which has sprung
| into existence in the year of Our
| Lord, 1898, Gods motto is: Not Amer
| lea for the Americans, but America
For the World. The sorrows and
| wrongs of the most alien are our sor-
rows and wrongs. Patriotism is noble
and we glory in the fact that we are a
nation of patriots. But we have dis
| covered a nObler ism than even pat
r-iotism. 1t is humanitarIanism. HUI
manitarianism lifts a man up TO such
a high level of sympathy with human
ity everywhere that he is able TO say
My country is the World" The new
America, the America of today and OF
the future must henceforth stand
among the nations OF the world for
| humanitarianiSm.
The program complete was as fol-
lows:
Organ Prelude.
The Star Spangled Banner"
. Doxology.
Invocation CAu standing) 1.-The Rev
c. NJ. Hyde, d. ID.
Congregational Hymn-TUne, Duke
Street-"O God Beneath Thy Guiding
Hand"
Responsive Reading, Ps 67.-The
Rev. ]. Leadingham.
Responsive Service, Ps. 81. Leader
God be Merciful unto us, and Bless
US; and cause His face to shine upon
as
Authenticated Be the Name OF
the LOrd"-Gadsby.
Scripture Lesson, Is. coils, 1872
The Rev. G. l.. Pearson, First Meth
odist Church.
Baritone Solo-Viva L'America-
Millard-PrOfessor ]. W. YarndIey and
Chorus.
Prayer-The Rev. T. d. Garvin, d
D., The Christian Church.
Response-"Thou, o God, the Life
and Light'-Herschell.
Congregational Hymn-"The Battle
Hymn of the Republic"
Sermon-"The New America''-TeX
Is. COL
Congregational Hymn-America.
Benediction-The Rev. G.. l.. Pear
son First Methodist Church.
Organ Postlude-National Melodies
ST. ANDREWS.
The Thanksgiving service Of the Sec
ond Congregation of St. Andrews Ca