The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-24
SERMON TO P. O. S. OF A.
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III every direction, it is rapidly becoming what
Egypt was to the ancient world, the magazine
OF food supply to the earth. Even now tho
nations of the earth leaning heavily upon
our hands for subsistence. Says Andrew Car.
ncgic, and think truthfuly, "There is no
need to increase our armament of defense. No
nation or combination OF nations even now
would dare touch U.S. for America is dire
necessity to the world as the feeding and help
ing hand OF the leading people Of the earth"
But stop moment, what OF the corruption
and fraud, huge. ugly and horrible, that now
obtain, the grind of business, the oppression of
capital, the merciless poverty and sorrow that
now exists
We answer this in holiest faith, it is divine
law, that all good shall be in its unfoldments
attended by pain. All excellence obtained only
by sorrow the wall OF the infant born echoes
the cry of the motherland as in pain. glor
ious fragment OF God, begins its immortal career
that the birth OF redemption in its white glory
cost the Saviour His human life
That earthquake and darkness, blood and
cruelty, the cross and crown OF thorn, We're the
antecedents OF salvation, Fear not what you
sec in this, for what YOU see is but the neces.
saTy mold of dirt from which shall come the
living cast Of our nations future glory.
And now men Of the great order that bears
the proud name OF the Patriotic Order Sons of
America, what is your relation TO the advancing
destiny OF your country? To this nation by
right OF birth and devotion, 10 this peerless
queen of future, MS in in her glorious beauty she
beckons You TO her side and calls upon you 10
aid her as her body guard and enlightened de-
fense.
In the marvellous ride of the king OF finance,
Pierpont Morgan, the other day, as he lett
Philadelphia to gain that Office in New York
city, where throbs the financial and golden
heart OF the world and which ride he broke all
records Of speed upon the railways of the
world, what care was first taken TO that all
rails were right and that every obstacle was re-
moved from the road on which the marvellous
flight was taken, the best men selected to run
and guide it, all other trains locked in safety
on sidngS, every living man stood in his place
10 guard and rs the marvellous steed flashed by
like meteor it was intelligence, sobeness, and
skill, that kept il from crash and ruin until
rushing like cyclone at last it glided in
safety into its station, the trip OF hundred
miles an hour an accomplished fact.
on RUsHEs NATION
So rI,hes our nation ON its fight of destiny
to the accomplishment of divine and human
emancipation OF man. From human slavery, hu.
man wrong into the broadcast proioundest con.
summation OF the principles of human liberty
and unity in American brotherhood. What is
the duty OF your order, L. o. $. OF A.? but 10
help by every Tightiul means, so that no OBJ
stucle shall be placed in q pathway OF American
advancement, that no foreign nor domestic inhu-
ence shall interfere to prevent success and
aohieiment Of American principles.
Look up 10 the God OF Washington aud the
patriots Of old, to the God who is supreme as
ruler, knowing that he who can change the mud
OF the volcanic streams into agates, the com.
monest clay of earth into sapphires, and the
poisonous gas Of the mine into the flashing
beautiful diamond. Can also change all things
OF evil into the things necessary to the con.
summation of that final result that has for its
total the happiness OF man, his freedom from
moral and political slavery, his uplift into
higher life, that by the blessings of God, shall
yet come the moral and spiritual heritage OF
mankind, upon normal and truly redeemed
base.
In closing, allow me to quote as an appro
pirate finish to this address some extracts from
the platform OF principles Of the noble order you
represent here tonight. l commend the senti
ments they contain to the thoughtful eonsidera
tion Of each and everyone present, would TO
God they could be written in letters of gold
upon the walls OF every hall or temple where
men and women congregate in America. No
place too pure or holy to borrow their use No