The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1903-05-26
MEMORIAL ADDRESS
Delivered by the Rev. Ran
lin at Christian Church

"The Song Of the Angels" Luke 2:i4
when the shepherds we're watching
their focks by night in the fields near
Bethlehem long ago, an angel of the
Lord stood by. while the glory of the
Lord shown round about them and the
angel said. Il bring you good tidings
of great joy. which shall be to all peo-
pie; for unto you is born this day in
the city of David. Savior. which is
Christ the Lord And suddenly there
was with the angel a multitude of the
] heavenly host" and the music of their
praise fell on the ears of the shep-
herds as the sweetest strain of the
grandest anthem that has fallen from
the lips of angels on the ears of men;
i"Glory to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good win toward men"
Long after the angel voices died
away and the heavenly host had van
ished through the hidden gates OF
g.ory, she disciples of Jesus took up
the words. caught the strain from the
angel choir and sought to teach the
world the divine song. Through the
centuries It has reverberated in the
events of Providence. Fain has been
the music at times, and loud the
clangor Of the worlds strife and tur-
moil. Again: 1t has rolled in un-
measured volume over the hearts of
men in the victories of right 1t was
sung by the Waldinses in the vale of
the Piedmont; the Huguenots sang it
when exiled from France; as the camp
fires. of the Pilgrim Fathers we're Nndl-
led at Plymouth Rock and jamestown
they woke the echoes Of the 'primeval
forests Of the new world with this
heaven sent song.
The first strain Of this anthem:
"Glory to God in the highest" is the
theme Of the annals Of history. The
second: "And on earth peace. is the
ultimate end Of all earth's conflicts.
The third Good will toward men,"
is the lesson the angels would teach
humanity.
When the 18th century began, this
American Republic was but an infant,
struggling to take its first steps alone.
Limited in territory. wealth and pop
ulation, without a name or history or
place among the world powers.
An experiment in government, on a
new and Isolated continent, construct
ed on a place that provoked, both the
wrath and the ridicule Of the leaders of
the old world
4 AS the sun Of the 2Oth century rose,
the star-spangled banner was unfurled
over territory unparalleled in extent
and richness; stretching from ocean
to ocean and from the tropical islands
OF the West Indies to the ice and snow
OF Alaska, out over the waters of the
Pacific to Hawaii, and on to the Phil
ippines on the other side Of the world.
While one hundred million voices join
the angel choir in their song. Glory TO
God in the highest" for the creation
and preservation of such a nation.
AS the clock OF time licked off the
CLOSING moments of the 18th century.
the nation that had been but an infant
when 1t began had become the largest,
weslthiest, and greatest nation on
earth.
But this greatness was not achieved
without effort 1t is decreed Of ma
tons as of individuals that they must
strive for the mastery.
Hence it is not strange that war the
middle Of the century of greatest
progress, occurred the mighdest con
Ifict in the life OF nations and upward
progress of the race.
The civil, political and social prob
lens involved, were vital TO the inter
est of humanity. They dsd not con
cern the people Of this land alone, bui
civilization stood still to see what sal
vation God would send. The salvation
sent was the divine order Of govern
ment.
When the first nation was formed
God sent the man Moses TO the slaves
nthe slime pits Of Egypt to deliver
them and for ma nation The task as
signed Moses was not the forming o
a confederation Of the Hebrew tribes
or OF forming government based OF
the compacts OF men Bur the govern
mentto be formed was a nation tha
found it's origin in the will Of God an
had for its object the deliyerance o
men. This idea OF the nation as tn
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