New-York tribune., 1900-07-09
DIR. PETERS ON EXPANSION.
SAYS WE ARE NOT SEEKING NEW TER
RITORY. BUT NEW OPPORTUN-
tiles TO DO GOOD.

Greater America" the subject chosen for
his sermon by the Rev. DR.. Madison c. Peters at
a patriotic service held at the Sumner Avenue Bap-
tist Church. Sumner-ave and Decatur-st., yester-
day morning. The pulpit and galleries were deco
rated with American flags DIR. Peters said in part;
Our patriotic President used every effort to avert
the Spanish American War But the voice OF the
people was for war and when war vas hnay br ere
was but one thing for the American people PIE 70 & aU;
the victory. 1t so CHANGED, and Divine Providence
that chance did guide, that the first blow struck
pines. We destroyed it. and before we knew it we
were where We never wanted to TO ne nor nor haG @ ever
hoped to be and having got there through cTcu!Li M
stances beyond our control we couiq ; noi II we we
whole civilized world INTO great international war
And this great archipelago having been put INTO INTO
did not wait for US but got ahead Of us we VII W%bi
hTk P duty The m flag 90T in \ M1a m 3o Is the tine
flag of tyranny and religious bigotry: It Is the
ever t the American flag goes American Intelligence
and American civilization Will go with it.
POLITICAL RIP VAN WINKLEs.
Americans have always been expansionists. The
thirteen original Colonies formed a mere patch
compared with our possessions previous to the
been violated it began so early in our Nations
custom The area Of the United states before the
Louisiana Purchase consisted of a million square
miles and under policy of territorial acquisi-
tion and annexation we have grown from million
square miles in 1872 to more than three million five
recent war. Our National history from Washing
had no right on the ground now covered by Ohio
and and 6d 9 ia Snd the stats man
comprises the States of Louisiana. Arkansas, Mis-
souri,, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Colorado
Wyoming and Montana. down war with
spain; is the romance Of conquest. exhibiting the
ism ism and Amercan M dpomaGy 1t is nigh time that
selves with the achievements in the Far East.
Almost as soon as treaty of peace with Great
Major Shaw sailed from NeW9YoTk, in 1854. to
bear the flag in the Chinese waters and extend the
o q
tdI, Andrew Jackson, when we began to formulate a
thu the waters @ Of China Japan G9Tea and and Maiaisia
the Oriental mass for the making of new ma nons
The territory which acquired gave aWsy as
tied in it and Converted into % states and ouP 5o
KY Icy Of the past will be the policy Of the future;
not let us adopt any other policy
OPPORTUNITIES TO DO GOOD.
r We do do not want the Philippines. Cuba or Porto
free speech and free church, blessings they have
never enjoyed. We are not seeking new territory,
but new opportunities to do good Power and vic
tory "a are M not given to nation for naHght The
means just the same thing it means in any state
now in the Observation-Disclosures for the people and
provinces must and will be a symbol of light and
law. Our Government will keep faith with Cuba.
and American acceptance of the Philippines means
a sacred trust in the interests Of civilization but
for the future of the Philippines, have for
Cuba and Porto Rico, independence won't come to
the Stars and Stripes, they have been reused TO
pability of lf-government.
The Cross must follow the flag. The Church
State has wrought through the soldier. The ter
ritory which God has opened for the American
church to enter and to possess, to take and. il
necessary, 20 hold, is base of operation for the
conquest OF the world. The battle of civilization
is on. America will lead and not follow The Span
ish-American War can do no more for the Cuban,
the Porto Rican and the Filipino than the Civil
War did for our brother in black. It has declared
MIN free. but that will not make him free unless
he is freed by the truth of Christianity
Hordes of the worst element of the population of
Europe arrive here yearly, people without the
least conception of American institutions or desire
to learn of them. Unless we awaken TO the fact
that these people must be AmericanZed and Chris
uanized they will speedily heathenize This is
the greatest menace to our institutions to-day