Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-11-30


there are higher, purer and nobler
thoughts and feelings and sentiments,
purposes and aims, and efforts at
work to counteract that which is
baneful and ruinous We have our
churches and Sunday schools, as we'll
as our public schools, with consecrat-
ed men and women giving their best
service. il / may venture the saying,
TO the common good, for the mastery
OF the sins that do so easily beset us.
but we see not vet the full victory
Of their righteous cause More and
YET more, We lovers OF our common
country, our homes and firesides, We
patriotic Sons of America. your en-
couragement is wanted, your help
is needed. your bolder and more de-
ternined effort, in this very day OF
conflict which is being waged between
law and lawiessness. between liberty
and libertniism. between right and
wrong, between light and darkness.
Rise, | beseech you, in the strength
of your might and Of your manhood,
carrying before you unto victory that
banner of Righteousness which will ex-
alt amy nature Let there be no hating
through fear go brayely into battle.
Haunting the flag CT your devotion in
abe very face of the enemy, joining
with Gods people at home and abroad,
for God and country, in the fixed pur-
pose of helping to bring in speedily
the victory Of the everlasting kingdom
OF right and truth, and our own city
Shall become as the city Of God and
her people the pride Of the nations
Boast
Friends and fellow citizens, feel
all the freer to speak to you in this
wise feeling that you are one with
me in striving to build up that which
is first and best, the truest and
noblest in life lowing fellowship with
God, citizenship with the Saints.
When | took mp the book OF law gov
erning your order and my eye fell
upon that first sentence in your plat
form of principles | felt that if that
be the basic foundation Of your order
and you hold yourselves bound to it.
then you and | are one in q common
cause, and we may we'll work togeth-
er. and all Of us fellow workers with
God. 1t is this, Next to love Of the
Creator. we believe that patriot
ism is one of the highest and noblest
affections of the human sould." Not
first. but next to the love Of the Gre
tor. The Creator first. the creature
next. How it voices the teaching of
the Goldman Christ Jesus-the unique
man, the highest ideal of manhood,
the man full of grace and truth. How
Fit voices the teaching Of Him, when
He said. Thou shalt love the Lord.
thy God with all thy heart and mind
and soul and strength, thy neighbor
as myself God first, and next your
self and fellows. God first-Cod the
Creator. the one God of the universe,
by whom are all things and in whom
al things consist The one true and
living God. the Trainer OF our bodies,
the father of our spirits-God the Gre
ator, preserver and bountifu benefac-
tor. in whom we live, move and have
being, whose glory the heavens de-
clare, whose handiwork TIE armament
showeth forth. That God, who at
sundry times and in divers manners
spoke in times past unto the fathers
by the prophets. and in these last
' days unto us by Ills Son. whom He
hath appointed heir of all things. by
!, whom also He made the world, who
being the brightness OF His glory and
the express image of his person and
| mpholding all things by word of His
power, when He had by Himself purg-
4 tu our SINS, oftt uON II OU jne flSul
, hand Of the Majesty on high Oh,
to acknowledge this God as cur God,
to give him the first and best of all
We have or are, TO honor Him above
all else, be it home or country or life
itself laid upon the altar OF sacrifice,
will prove that one a patriot brave
and true ever ready, by word and
deed to safeguard his country's insti-
buttons. and If need be give property
and life in His defense
He that 'oveth God shall love his
brother also, and this is what true
' patriotism means, what il demands
He that saith that he loves God, and
yet hates his neighbor is a liar and
the truth is not in him. If he loves
God. he shall, he must love his coun-
, try and the brotherhood. These be his
countrymen. these are his neighbors,