The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-03
LLAR-MAN|A Is
THE NATIONS CURSE
Rev. Quincy Ewing Protests
Against Mammon Worship
GRAFT is DENOUNCED
IT Is Rampant in City, State and Ma
ton, Says He-ldeals of Found
ers of Republic Lost
Sight of.

candour characteristic of the speaker, the
/. Rev. Quincy Ewing, the rector of the
Church of the Advent, yesterday MORN
ing protested vigorously against what he
called THE dollar 1lapia" throughout the
nation, and especially against the evidence
, of graft in municipal, state and ma
tional politics.
Taking the twelfth verse of the thirty
third Psalm as his text-"Blessed is the
ration whose God IS the Lord; and the
people whom he has chosen for his own
INTERCHANGEABLE Ewing said:
blessed is the nation whose God is
the Lord; and the people whom He hath
chosen for His own Inheritance" psalm
49, V. 12)
We are close today, upon another an
niversary of a great nations birth-an
event that coul6 not be merely temporal
or profance in its significance, but must
be intrinsically sacred, divine, religious,
and especially must the event that we
shall celebrate the day after tomorrow
mean to us the sacred, the divine, the
religious, because it is our own nation
that was born one hundred and twenty
nine years ago. The national birthday.
doubtless, will be duly celebrated with
fireerackers and skyrockets-it being our
American way to ovince our joyous ap-
proval of everything from the advent of
a worlds Redeemer to the election of
| q congressman, with the noise and smoke
| of explosive powder.
But 1t were a shame past atoning for,
il our national anniversary melted us
to nothing but smoke and noise; If there
were no deep and reverent celebration of
it In our hearts and souls Surely it
behooves us to consider at this time not
only what our forefathers did more than
- .1I..A1 If. aIx.In
| King George, but also the meaning Of
what they did as obedient and heroic
servants of God Most High; and to ask
| ourselves IL the nation, as we know 1t,
and are responsible for it. is fulfilling as
4 1t should the promise of their brave per-
Torrance.
Significance of the Revolution.
The adoption by the Colonial Congress,
July T. 1776 of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence did not mean simply that sub
jects had tired of an oppressive ruler,
and resolved to break away from his
rulershp: that heroic battles were to be
fought and tremendous sacrifices endured
by half-fed, half-clothed armies, nor
even that a new nation had come into
existence to take Its place and pursue
It's purposes as one among the nations or
the earth. Many times before, tyrants
had been rebellei against by outraged
ties been fought and won by hungry
and raogad soldiers. MANY times before,
n new state had fought its way to mem
bershlp In the family of states
What the adoption of the immortal De-
clarasion meant fundamentally, was that
not one tyrant, but all tyranny, had re-
ceived tbe master-blow of the ages; that
battles were tn be fought unparalleled In
t,,eir result since one mans good first
dashed with another mans evil; that a
new nation was born, unlike in kind all
4 the others that were or had ever been,
since time began-tle first great demo-
cratic nation of the centuries. brought
into being, In the providence OF Goa by
men strong and wise enough to lay deep
and sure its democratic foundations; to
subordinate government to manhood rath-
or than manhood to government; to see
and to nroolaim. in words that ring like
bells. that life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness are not privileges 10 pc
held nv one on sufferance of another but
,seb+s inalienable God bestowed, with
titla no better in the highest than the
lcwest in the governors than the gov
| erned
The vote of the Colonial Congress was
a venture of faith,-as all humanity
greatest deeds and utterances nave peeh
ventures of faith: faith NOT IN 1ou oii'y,
lint In man as we'll; for the first wouio
avail lttle.--aye, nothing at all,-with-
out the second Incentive to trust IN the
T,vine Providence could hardly be, were
conviction lacking that God VIII 1ind men
ovailahle for service as agents and instru-
ments of His benencent purpoSs.
founders OF TINS na' d',,r ami or their
rnent pen eo,,d never have been They
| 'o ,iaa a., 40 living men they represent
osno t,,at thev would rally to the support
% 20 ~ erect covenant. ana go to suffer-
- 20 death that a nation might do
a. ms anr and they believe in the UNI
II rev. ~ +bev also represented,-tha
poil ,,n,,ia nrove themselves heirs not
tney - q 'suhlime heritage; true as
uh"or,ny ea,,owed generation, to the
sehelation, ,e. asor remembering that as
spiril " ~ oa,,e 70 birth through willing
the na.'o houndless self-saerince on the
hess 20 a. eo,,nders and first citizens In
ipa,,s - eternal principles of rectitude
and Justice it's safety, ana "eiials 1T
hign ues.,n - suffer fine sacrifice of selfish
interests whenever such interests shoulo
- ., oonaict with the general good; ana
80 resolved to maintain the govern
~ 1adaed IN fundamental democracy,
i'e'il &c n,ane for some of its citizens
~. ", orotber for the rest, but on one
ana % dutv. right privilege for all
pan Nc. a man who signed his name 10
a.he, lion of Independence not
the 49, ,,oted for its adoption, but risk
man VIZ s..,,ne and perhaps his life, under
ca ms ~, If reference for great moral
| tne .'iipu a - faith in his countrymen,