The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-08
"A SEDITIONIST."
Rev. J. B. Brady
Takes a Fall Out
Of Atkinson.
TALKS ON LOYALTY.
Likens Anti Expansionists
To Copperheads Of
Civil War.

Rev. James Boyd Brady, pastor Of
Grace church. took occasion during his
sermon last night, to express himself
on the question of expansion and to de-
clare himself loyal to the president and
his cabinet He also paid his respects
to Edward Atkinson, whom he charac-
terized as a seditionist.
Mr.. Brady took for his subject THE
mission of America in prophecy" tax
ing for his text chapter TX of the book
of Isaiah After remarking that a
better description of the mission of
America to the nations than this pro-
phetic depletion of Isaiah, has not been
given the speaker referred to what.
has been said of the future of America
by many illustrious men, and finally
referring to the present situation, said:
THUS then we see that the humane
expansionism of America has been the
sublime prophetic dream of many of
the greatest minds. And now that the
expansion era is upon us, shall we fall
ter? Shall we be untrue to our high
est mission? Shall we be disloyal to
our glorious country in the time of her
greatest need? Shall we sound the
slogan of disgraceful retreat with Ed
ward Atkinson, the seditionist of Bos-
ton?
"shall we falter in our mission be-
cause accidentally or incidentally we
happen just now in the discharge of our
duty to have come into rather unpleas-
ant collpsion with Aguinaldo and his
misled followers? Shall we like the
copperheads,' during the war of the
rebellion, try to sow the seeds of dis
loyalty to Union government under the
paltry plea that the Filipinos ape fight
ing for the same rights that Washing
ton and his colonial heroes fought?
Shall we, under any such sham and
shoddy pretext as that, call off our SOL
diers from the field before their work
is done? Shall we raise a hue and
cry throughout our commonwealth
against our beloved president and
against the noblest class of public men
in the House of Representatives and
the Senate chamber, this country has
ever produced, because somebody has
shouted 'Embalmed beefY
mo! I say a thousand times, mol
Let us be loyal to William Mckinley
and his cabinet! Let us be true to the
DEGREES of this government! Let us
lstand by the idea of expansive educa-
tionalism, expansive evangelicism and
expansive Americanismi Let us be
loyal to Old Glory, no matter in to what
! llelu Quly Calls HeF, ana let the SOlQleIS
at the front understand that they are
prayed for, appreciated and supported
/ by the people at home.
'Iet them understand that they are
the fighting guard of the new empire
of destiny. That God is with them,
that man is with them, that the pro-
| gress of the world is with them, and
that they are to fight down every devil
of treason, whether he appears in the
isle of Luzon or in the heart of the re-
public, among the lynchers Of the
south or the dynamiters of the west.
1.-THE truce of God is in the air. The
last great battle of man against man is
very near. The battle after the last
great battle will be not man against
man, nor nation against nation, but of
man for man, nation for nation. We
stand in the twilight of such an illus
trious day, and after the sun has shot
his rays like glittering spears through
clouds that come up from the dells of
death to dispute his rising then Amer
lea will come to the front once more.
America will rise in her heaven Civ
en- might and sweep the saloon from
every foot of soil over which floats the
stars and stripes. She will sweep away
all foul oaths from the mouths of her
citizens. She will sweep out all lies and
thefts and Righteousness and idolatry
and oppression from the earth She
will crown Jesus Christ, her most glor-
ious king. He will lead her on till he
has flooded the world with her glory"