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| fight her battles and Speaker Hender-
son to preside over her congress and
Thomas Watson to plead at her bar?
Shall the Goddess of Liberty feel no in
debtedness to foreign countries when
she has taken from their tiresides their
| fairest daughters and their bravest and
| truest young men and clasped them to
her own heart until these adopted sons
and daughters look up and cal! her
mother?
If we We're to blot out from Amer
ican history the deeds of its foreign
born children, we would obliterate
many of the best pages of our national
heroics. An old poem begins some
thing like this:
Oh give men! A time like this demands
Clean minds pure hearts, true faith and
ready hands;
Men who possess opinions and will;
Men whom desire for office does not kill.
The Demand For Men.
To supply this national demand for
eign countries have been giving US for
centuries their best treasures. They
have given us their sturdinSt men Of
mental and moral worth and their fair
est daughters, whose virtues are, as
King Solomon says, ''ahOHc tn" price
Of rubies." Surely for such priceless
gifts America must acknowledge she
is a debtor ito the Greeks and to the
barbarians"
Religious liberty's cradle also was
built across the seas True, it was
foated across the Atlantic, and during
its tempestuOus voyage Of many miles
its infantile occupant grew and WaXed
stronger. But, after all, We should not
forget that the cradle Of civil and reli
gious liberty was first hammered to-
gether on foreign shores.
In the astronomical world we find
that stars generally travel in conStella-
tons, or in groups. Thus we also find
that every great advancement of the
human race, spiritually or mentally, So
ciaIly or economically, is in touch with
other events, though they may be seen
or unseen. The sweet voiced village
church bell of today is not entirely of
American manufacture. 1t was cast
In the hot fires of the CovenanterS per-
sacutiOns: it was cast among the flames
which wrapped their fiery tongues
about the sbriyeling bodies Of John
Huss and Ridley and Latimer and Gran
mer; it was cast among the burning
logs heaped about the dying body of
Savonarola when the Italian priest,
Elijah-like. was about to go to heaven
In Il chariot of fire; it was cast centu-
ries back among the MERIDIAN persecu-
tons in the days Of the apostolic mar
tyrdoms.
Can we ever reach the day when we
shall feel that our religious liberty is
not a natural outgrowth Of the Chris
tian heroes and heroines who dared to
defy Bloody Alva, the prosecutor of
the Netherlands, or Lord Claverhouse,
the prosecutor of old Scotland, or de-
moniac Catherine, the fendisb female
@instigator of the st. Bartholomew mas
sacre, or the bloody Queen Mary Of the
English throne2 When that grand old
man, Hugh Latimer, then over eighty,
stood among the burning logs that
We're cremating him, he turned to Bish-
op Ridley, his fellow martyr near by,
and said: "Be Of good comfort, Master
Ridley, and play the man. We shall
this day light such candle by Gods
grace in England as, | trust, shall nev-
er be put out" Aye, they did: they
did, They not only lighted gospel
torch for England, but torch which
would blaze in America centuries after
RI Vva hoy IN,
America because the first great battles
for the enchainment and the decapita-
ton Of Satanic bigotry were fought up
on the other side of the seas.
Our Artistic Debts.
America is Indebted to foreign lands
in commercial and an artistic sense
as well as in moral and spiritual
sense. Some political speakers love to
boast that commercially we are indie
pendent of the world. They assert it
would make very little difference to US
whether or no foreign countries held
any trade relations with us at all But
this is not true You are a wealthy
man. You invite me to your home
some night to a banquet l accept.
AS l sit waiting for the other guests to
arrive l say: MIR. So-and-so, this is a
designed home. Where did
your architect get the idea?" You an
swer: 'sThe plans of this house are not
his ideas. He merely worked them
out in detail after had described them.
Some years ago. while | was in Eng
land, | came across beautiful couli-s
try home. / then said to myself that
il | should ever have money enough / |
would build house upon that plan.
This home is the result of my resolve
made at that time" Under. my feet is
a rug of exquisite workmanship. Where
was 1t made2 In the city of Damas- |
Gus. l. is an imported rug. When
your wife comes in to greet me, she is
dressed in beautiful costume. It
came from the silkworms of France
That diamond glittering upon your fin
ger was dug out of the African mines. |
Up to comparatively recent date