The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-03
1.-THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR'
JESUS WROTE HIS PROCLAMATION WITH HIS BLOOD UPONTHE CROSS.

Ills subjcct-God's Kingdom For.
 wnrded by War--JuIy Memorable
 Month to Liberty Lovers.
 At Trinity M. F. church yesterday
 morning communion services were het
 and were attended by large congrega
 ton. The sermon, a patriotic one, was
 delivered by the Rev. Levi D. Gilbert
 who preached on the subject, Jesus
 and Liberty" He chose as his text
 "Without the shedding of blood there is no remission"
 Tn opening he spoke of Jesus as the great emancipator, who wrote His emancipation proclamation" with His blood upon the cross. He also referred to the motto on the "Peristyle at the worlds fair "Ye shall know the truth
 and the truth shall make you free as a motto to be taken by all Continuing he spoke in part as follows: .Jesue was a patriot who came to His own and His own received Him not. He Wept . over Jerusalem when 1t stoned the prophets and rejected those who were sent to Him. He foresaW with horror the destruction of Jerusalem by the Ro- mans and the overthrow of the temple. He commanded His disciples in preach ing the gospel to begin at Jerusalem. When He was dying upon the cross to redeem q race He could still think Of His mother, and while He was the sav- for of all humanity His heart went out tn His own city. The lesson of Calvary is the lesson of self-sacrifice. It is ono that every citizen should learn. Every Christian needs to bear hie cross not only for Christ's sake, but for the na- tion's sake. There is no demand that is more imperative than that of self-de- nial for the sake of the country and it's citizens. Men must learn to bear the cross in the sacrifice of ease and pleas ure, and in the offering of their lives by giving labor, time, talent and money. Jesus taught on the cross the great prin- ciple of unselfish service. That princi- pie is illustrated in the lives of great men who have served their country"
 Incidents in the life of Cromwell, whose three hundredth anniversary we celebrate this year were then given by the speaker who said, Cromwell was inspired with the great principle of re- ligion. Washington received no pay for his services and refused a crown; La fayette, whose memory is being honored this year throughout the United States, gave himself as youth to the reVolu- tionary cause and for forty years served France and the interests of the people, and despite the confiscation of his es- tates and subsequent imprisonment and exile, he never wavered in his allegiance to democracy; Lincoln, who bore the burden of the great civil war; and the men who fought in the trenches at San tiago to give liberty, not to ourselves, but to an alien race, and those who are now fighting amid the sweltering heat of the tropics, all exhibit the great vir- ture of unselfishness. which Jesus manifested on the cross.
 Not all the men who have offered their lives for their country are soldiers. Burke, Pitt Gladstone, Madison Frank lin, Hamilton, Webster, Clay, Lincoln, Seward and Chase were all civilians, but just as much heroes as any soldier or general. And the service of our own country offers to each civilian citizen tllt SdlIG UppOIluull Ol IefolSll ana self-sacrifice. Gods kingdom goes forward frequently by means of war. Great battles have carried the race for ward. We desire the success of the of the commission at The Hague and hope that in the future all difficult ties will be settled by arbitration New ertheless war has been something bet ter than a contest of beasts. Victory over Persian barbarism, by the Greeks | thehurling back of the Moors by Charles | Martel, the English revolution, the l French revolution; our own revolution, | our civil war, the wars that made unit l ed Germany and united Italy, the late | war all mark great stages in the prog res of humanity Our God is ever march, ing on.
 'The present date is very significant, and July Is a memorable month to lib- erty lovers. On July ? Cromwell gain ed the great battle of Marston Moors. The Lord makes our enemies as stubble before our swords he cried. His men entered the battle with song on their lips. On July 14 the Bastile in Paris was torn down by an outraged populace Its key hangs in Washington's home at Mt. Vernon. On July 3 Washington took command of the American army under the old elm at Cambridge. On the 14th of July the declaration of indepen- dence was signed. It was not so much Thomas Jefferson as it was Jesus Christ, who wrote that declaration of indepen- dence. It was in July that the awful Wyoming massacre occurred and in July General Tryon landed on the Con- necticut shores and pillaged New Ha- ven. It was a memorable Fourth when Adams and Jefferson died within a few hours of each other and who can ever forget the awful conflict at Gettysburg on July ?, the carnage at Little Round Top, the Devils Den and the Peach Or chard, leaving 50.000 on both sides dead, wounded and missing. Or who can for get the glorious victory of Vicksburg, on the Fourth, which with Gettysburg, broke the back of the rebellion? And what gloomy Fourth was that when, stricken by the bullet of the assassin, Garfield breathed his. last? And lastly, how fresh in our memory is the glorious Fourth when Cerveras fleet was destroy- ed at Santiago and the trenches and cit | ies were taken. So, at this communion ! let us remember not only the Christ