The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-02
Patriotic Sermon in Unity Hall,
Delivered by Rev. Frank
Fay Eddy.
DECLARES PATRIOTISM is
ESSENTIALLY RELIGIOUS
Must Do Something More, How
ever, Than Simply GIorify
the Noble Past.

Rev. Frank Fay Eddy preached a
patriotic sermon yesterday in the Uni
tartan hall, discussing the Religious
Significance OF Patriotism" Joseph F..
Poll sang the solo, and Unity Quar-
tette an anthem. Some portions of
MIR. Eddy's sermon follow;
The whole history OF tho Jews illus
trates the power of the religion of a
race. They early learned to eXalt their
%2d TSiI as es,,ia a great gre God above all Gods
prophet OF the exile, call upon them in
the name OF that God. "Hcarken unto
mo, ye that know righteousness. the
people in whose heart Is my law"
Cites the Japanese.
AS an illustration of that patriotism
which inheres TO a land and its tradi
uons, which is a sentiment moro ferYid
and deep than any other that sways the
people Of that land and which answers
the chief purposes of religion, We have
the behavior of the Japanese during the
recent war with Russia l do not know
how long this nation viii retain the
simplicity and power OF this apcient be-
lief which is connected with their an
cestral Shintoism and with the days
when their Emperor was recluse and.
in popular thought a demi-god. Call IL
heathenlsm If VIC Will. but II produced
the race OF Samurai and / wonder II
the Samurai Will long survive the de-
struction OF this spirit of self-sacrinc-
Ing patriotism.
However desirable IL may seem, there
has never been in nlJtory a perfect
of peace, And now IL would seem i'm
possible that any really great people
should long conflne the deep sentiments
which characterize them as a nation in
the narrow limits marked by the proud
exclusiveness Of the Israelitc. or tho
fatalistic devotion TO nation before the
person. as seen in the Japanese.
Patriotism Essentially Religious.
Yet true patriotism is a thing essen
TALLY religious In every nation and
pulses and sentiments so they shall be
held q precious heritage In the common
life Of the people is by long odds the
most important task in all nations. And
this task belongs to the poet, the artist
and the reformer far more than TO the
practical man or the law-rnaker. A
common spirit Of life, a spiritual solid
arity must produce an organic unity
and harmony In a nation, or II Will lack
true greatness and power Otherwise
II Is mere aggregation Of human
atoms, which Will fall to pieces under
the first shock as a piece of sandstone
crumbles under the hammer
In the body of the sermon Mr.. Eddy
showed that the clements of this pa
triotism which is essentially religious
are. faith in a nations evolution, 10y
atty 10 its welfare, works In Its behalf
and fruits unto righteousness or re-
pcntance as each Is in it's due season
required IN CONCLUSION MT. EuQy Salu 3
Most Important Task.
The most important task we have be-
fore us in these United States of Amer
lea is the cultivation Of this religion of
patriotism. We were fortunate in tho
Ideals with which We started at our
nations birth time. The dream OF dem
ocracy had freshly formed in the souls
Of new race OF prophets, In America
was the first rea''7ati0r of that dream.
"erty and equality were noble watch
words for a new TeDuDuC To coin, and
a group of remarkably great men arose
TO guido Its early fortunes and TO shape
it's destinies.
But our present-day patriotism must
consist in something moro than glory
ing In the noble part and In celebrating
with much noise and bombast the dec
laration of independence or in guarding &
the Constitution.
1t Is and must be. I repeat a spirit
of life. religion. which has its own
evolution and rises to meet the prob
lens Of each new age.
Facing Grave Problems.
In America VIC are receiving a swell
ing tide Of -immlgrati'f. Can we assim-
Hate these diverse and often deteri-
GRATED peoples? We nre facing grave
economic problems. VIII we solve these
lastinEly and with hoEs7r? We Will II.
as In the past tho religion Of our pa
triotism inspires our zenl and steels
onr resolution