The Washington times., 1902-07-07
Edifice Tastefully Decor
ated With National COL
orS for Occasion
SERMON BY THE PASTOR
Music Arranged With Special Reference
to Character of the Exercises-Text
of Sermon From Deuteronomy, "Lest
Thou Forget"

Patriotic services were held at the
Luther Place Memorial Church yester-
day at IL o'clock, the exercises being
conducted by DR.. ]. G. Butler, the pas
tor of the church.
The church was tastefully and appro-
priately decorated with the national
colors and large American flag was
draped over the altar. The music was
arranged with special reference TO the
character of the services. Among the
selections sung by the choir and con-
Fair Freedoms Land" The Star
Spangled Banner" The Battle Hymn OF
the Republic" and America"
DR.. Butler found the text for his ser
mon on Americas Glory and Destiny
in Deuteronomy vi:12-"Lest thou for
get" He showed that the republic had
been based on godly ideals and owed its
greatness and glory to the fact that its
people and leaders had not forgotten
God. pointing out that the greatest dan
ger to the nation lay in the desertion
of righteousness in the hour Of prosper
fly. He said, in part:
Israel Did Not Forget.
Israel did forget and is numbered
among the nations that were lost, and
SO will any nation be that forgets God.
The time OF danger to any individual or
and prayer. but the day of peril is the
day of prosperity
DIR. Butler spoke of the purposes and
trials Of the Pilgrims who came over
in the Mayflower Referring 10 the COW
enant which they signed binding them
selves into a body polite in the name
OF God. he said that covenant is the
warp and woof of which the republic is
woven.
This republic" he said. was planted
by Godfearing men, in the fear of God
ana for the glory of God"
He cited numerous instances where
the early settlers and the later col
onists and founders of the nation had
shown that their political actions were
inspired by conscience. and that they
realized the necessity of educating the
moral nature of the people that the
fabric ct the body polite might endure
This leaven." he declared, has been
working all through the 126 years OF
the history OF the nation"
He contrasted the conditions of the
three millions Of people who formed the
naticn at its birth with those of the
eighty millions of today, asserting that
not only were the material conditions
better. but that progress had been as
marked along religious and Intellectual
lines.
The concern now is lest we forget
The God who led the 100 OF the Mayflowe,
to the 100000 OF the Declaration of
Independence, and the 10000 of that
time TO the s5.oOo.oO of today Beware
lest thou forget the law,"
Great Problems Today.
There are many great problems today
growing out of our peculiar conditions.
One threatening problem today grows
out of our national prosperity, our in
creasing wealth. God who has led us
will show us the way to settle these
problems. The problem of the struggle
between capital ard labor will be soIv-
ed They ought to be as the two wings
of one bird, and they will ultimately be
So. The safety of the State lies In an
honest and enlightened public con-
science. And the public conscience may
De educated by the press, the pulpit and
the schools.
the individual is the antidote to crime
and srarchy.
The problem of self government we
are solving. 1t is not in the power OF
the army and the navy and in the au-
thorlty OF the executive that the great
ness Of the nation lies. but in the ca
pacity of the individual for self-controI
and respect and obedience TO the law
which helps TO make
Referring to the negro question as
another problem to be solved, he said
that the solution lay in Industrial edu-
cation and Christian education for the
negro. He refer ed TO the spread of
horInonism as e grave peril. saying
that polygamy struck at the family. He
concluded as follows.
believe that ATE-Tica is to Ameri-
canize the world. Not that We are to
annex the nations of the world. but
that the American idea of freedom is 10
be carried to all the world 8"