The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-05
PATRIOTIC SERVICE.
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
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Held at United Church Yesterday Morn
ing-Orphan Asylum Children Oc-
cupy the GalIery-spIendid Addresses
by Rev. DIR. Phillips and Rev. DIR.
Sheath. :. .
The early service at United church
was well attended, the orphan asylum
children occupying the gallery. Rev.
s. Dryden Phelps opened the service
with Scripture selection.
The hymn, "God of Our Fathers by
Whose hand" was then sung by the
congregation. Prayer was offered by
DR.. Baker of the First M. E. church,
q prayer Of praise and thanksgiving for
all the blessings of the past and pres
ent. DR.. Phillips of the Church Of the
Redeemer, having to leave for another
engagement. was introduced as the first
speaker. DR.. Phillips said. 81 am glad
to see these children here. To them
the Fourth of July means the firecrack-
er and the band, and other good things,
but the time will come when it will
mean more, this celebration Of the
foresight of the fathers. There is a
chance for you if you are as brave and
as true hearted as they were. A boy at
the battle of Charlottesville in his
first fight was commanded to lie down
in the grass ON his face. As they all
lay there, he rose up and began firing
on all sides, saying, Get up, boys, there
is good fighting all around u.s. So
there is to-day. fighting all around us
to be done, and for those truths may
you be as brave as any soldier ever
on the field of battle" Then adj
dressing the older people in his audi
ence, DR.. Phillips said In part THE
politician and the boy are alike busy
to-day. The politician in his conven-
ton and the boy all over the country.
There are many things to perplex US,
and they are in full view. Not after
the storm, but in the midst of it, we
hear the Still small voice. and we
wonder and question, Have the vir-
tues Of the fathers perished9
IN view Of the facts it is a wonder
we are as free as we are from misgiv-
eminent. And the wonder increases
when we consider the personal and
party ambitions which enter into life.
Think of the power of the saloon. How
little the average man knows of private
affairs of his political party until some-
thing unusual happens. We call our
selves patient people. Are we not
also a careless people? We are a loyal
r,anv,In ;Y,3anua IN oJ,y 1--we af ,oou,1f,Iy
with devotion to the hopes which in
fiuence US. Read of the response in our
hours of need, how men sprang to
arms. On such a day as this remern-
Der that we need more loyalty. There
is a material loyalty and some men re-
joice In our natural prosperity, calling
this the greatest of all countries, and
they use all for personal success and
are proud because the land offers so
much. Then comes political loyalty,
which declares there is no other coun-
try like ours on the earth. What we
need is ethical loyalty to the ideas and
aims which our fathers taught, and
which sees that wider field of stranu-
GUS conflict is before US, and which
leads the nation to devote itself with
1t Is in that sort of devotion to prin-
ciple that we are lacking. Our people
are boasting of their Golfers and bat
ties. We are lost in study of our
own magnificence. We think Of the
past as the time Of crude beginnings
saying that men had some ideas when
they laid the foundation, but the great
superstructure is ours-of our building
Think of those men with their faith in
God, and with what patience they
wrought, they are worthy of our reper-
ence For the men and deeds Of the
past, let us ever hold them before us
and put in us their undauntad, I'M
selfish spirit which dominated them
There is. no field so large we cannot
enter. There is no end SO high we can.
not aim for it, and by Gods grace
compass it and all the possibilities in.
volved.''
A hymn followed the conclusion OF
this address and then DR.. Phillips in.
troduced Rev. DR.. Sheath of the Grand
Avenue Congregational church, who
said in part:
At the opening of the Centennial ex.
position, ex-Secretary Evarts declared
the two pillars upon which Americs
rested were the Bible and the Sabbath
day. This is nation that believes ir
God and in Christian principles. Thi:
nation was born in a struggle fol-
Christian liberty. Our fathers, in this
face of dangers, have held to Christian
principles. In the Revolutionary days
they trusted in God, and gave to us 6
history Of divine Providence, because
they trusted and sought to obey God
When that Continental congress met
Washington wrote that he despaired o.