The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-10

tablish righteousness; men who hate in
iquity Such men were our ancestors
If we will be sons worthy or them, thel
America in her future viii be create
than America in her past.
A nation not founded upon God ant
righteousness can never beset true pa
triotism, nor people whose main char
acteristics are lovabe
Again, we must carefully distinguish
between patriotism and politics. The
true patriot and the ordinary politician
are two very different persons. They
are the very opposite Of one another
Never was there a time in our history
when this distinction needed to be more
emphasized
The politician is governed by eXpedi-
ency; the patriot by the eternal princi-
Piles Of righteousness and truth The
politician thinks of his country as that
from which he is to gain something;
the patriot thinks of her as that to
which he owes duties. The politician
grows rich out of the so-called service
of his country; the patriot gives up all
for her, and dies, if need be, in her ser
vice. The patriot has MY Country
written on his heart. Two very differ
ent persons!
True patriotism should extend to
every public act, We should always be
loyal Americans, while loyal American
ism means. loyalty to what is best and
right
Patriotism is inwrought into our very
blood and marrow. 1T is" as Phillips
a.
| our American ancestors, 1t Is the same
old spirit, the same perpetual sense of
duty the same expatiation that every
one Of Americas children will do his
duty" Patriotism is a perennial obli-
cation,
But patriotism does not spring spon-
| taneOusly from the soil. 1t is a spirit
to be cultivated and famed into an en-
thusiasm like any other spiritual force.
1t is a spirit that must be tenderly
| nourished in the home and in the
church. Women as well as men have
| their part to play in its production.
| Women in the days of the struggle for
| independence were as patriotic as the
men. The minute-man Of the Revolu
ton says George william Curtis, was
trained in the common schools, the
church and in the town meeting, who
carried a bayonet that thought and
whose gun, loaded with principle,
brought down. not a man, but sys-
TEN"
The pulpits in the old days Numbered
the call to freedom long before our am
cestors took up arms at Lexington and
at Concord. A noble nation of ignoble
homes or ignoble churches is impossi-
BILE. The home and the church are the
nurseries of this noble spirit. Let eth
er be desecrated by selfishness, by mere
fashion, by Journalism or by material
istic seepticism, and you have knocked
out the props which sustain nations
success, For it Is only Righteousness
that can eXalt nation. Let us fight
against the decoration of these cradles
of patriotism. Let success never dis
place righteousness in the home, or sell
fishness self-sacrifice. Let us teach our
boys that there can be no true patriot
ism except that Of our ancestors, which
was fed by religion. Let as educate
our daughters to be loyal Americans,
not thinking It the highest end OF their
life to marry a titled foreigner. AS the
mother holds the key to the home, so
must we ever look to our patriotic wo-
men to train great men for our coun-
try's service.
Let our pulpits again be prophetic
with regard to the noble future of our
nation. Now, as every true and last
ms patriotism can only be the outcome
of religion, as was that of Moses. The
Bible presents us with inspiring in
stances of sublimest patriotism.
Let us never forget that ours is a
Christian nation founded by Christian
men, who recognized God as the only
true and lasting foundation for the
state. Religious patriotism is of the
largest and nobest type. In the spirit
of Moses it recognizes national evils as
well as national virtues That so-called |
patriotism whose motto is, "Our coun-
try right or wrong" is spurious and !
That Is indeed false and
blind love of country which only dwells I
in vain glorious way on the wealth, |
the victories and the power Of nation, |
and which does not recognize and re-
buke national vices. Religious patriot- |
ism is sensitive to those errors and vices |
by which national greatness is eVentu- T
ally destroyed He is the truest lover
Of his country who protests against the
laws which are on its stat
ute book, the errors which are taught in
schools and temples, the vice which dis
graces the street.
Any religion which does not issue in
practical patriotism is not the religion
Of the Perfect Man, Jesus Christ. Pa
triotism which seeks to bring God and
the nation nearer together Is far more
eloquent than the tongue Of the orator,
the sword of the valiant, or the wisdom
Of the ancients The spirit which jeal-
ously endeavors to spread the knowl-
edge of God, to secure the keeping Of
His laws, and which indicates the sane
lily of Gods holy day-that is true pa
the outcome of religion. For
after all, as it has been wisely said, "the
grandest power in the state is not that
which fights. but that which prays" !
/ must call your attention before
close, to the battlefields of our patriot
SIN; to the foes against which we as
patriotic citizens must fight. Time will
lot allow me to dwell at length upon
hem. | can do little more than men
ion them.
Our national enemies do not come in
he same form as of yore. We must
cultivate cur patriotic spirit to-day UNI
Ter many wholly different conditions
rom those which confronted our ances-
crs. We are in the midst of many new
md perpleXing prohlenlS.