The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-28
DAUGHTERS OF THE
 AMERICAN REVOL U7ION
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 1 borne. save country.s triumphs. An: there is a magnetism in thai love and | loyalty. ladies and gentlemen. which makes the whole world kin, from the
 pampered minion of fame, on the exalt- | ga dazzling heights of his attained ann
 nition, to the basest-born churi in the
 darkest depths of his unenviable
 drudgery That keen analyst of the
 inner workings of our common nature.
 Shakespeare. has laid bare to our gaze the lingering Influence of that love on the ruined life and broken heart of the
 fallen Prime Minister. In Wolsey's last
 confidence to his devoted and desolate | attendant:
 Let all the ends thou aim'st at. be thy | countrys
 Thy Gods and truths: then. if thou fall'st. O Cromwell. Thou falrst a blessed nartyrl" l Shelly has woven the web of that l spell, in the lullaby sung by the Gre clan mother to her cradled and slmuber- | ing infant:
 Sleep. my loved one. sleep; | l will teach thine infant tongue l To call upon those heroes old < In their own language and will mould l Thy growing spirit in the flame
 Of Grecian lore. that by each name
 A patriots birth-right thou may'st | claim.''
 And our own gentle bard, Oliver l Wendell Holmes, has not scrupled to brand as more than idle the unpatriotic victory and the conquerors themselves | as veriest slaves:
 | "Qui vive! This is the sentry's cry,-- The sleepless soldiers hand l Are these.-the painted folds thus ny, And lift their emblems printed high | On morning mist and sunset sky | The guardians of land? l Noi If the patroit's pulses sleep
 How vain the watch that hirelings keep,
 The idle flag that wavesl | When conquest with his iron heel | Treads down the standard and the steel | That belt the soil of slaves" < So you see. ladies and gentlement
 that through the ages, humanity has burned the incense of admiration at \ the shrine of patriotism. The most | thrilling pages of history are those l which rehearse its deeds. Preside tales. the outpourings of the memories of peoples borrow from 1t their warm est glow. Poets are sweetest when | they echo it's whisperings and orators most potent when they Htune their ut- terances to its inspiration. The Pagans of old were undeniably ] wrong in making defties of their nob- | lest patriots. but their error was the I excess of that solemn truth, that heaven unites with earth in approving and blessing patroitism.
 The Value of Religion. Yes ladies and gentlemen, if the value of religion to a people. Is above 1 gold and precious stones, above conn.,
 merce and industry. above warships 1 and fortress, so too. is tf vital spark | of a nations honor. the living fount
 of nasion's prosperity. ths strong
 shield of a nations defense. and all
 these things are embodied in that hal
 lowed word. Patriotism. Hence hu- l manity honors next to hcr martyrs in
 the cause of their God. those who mob : l ly battle for the cause of their native
 land. The man who boldly marches | to the battle line, and makes obIItfon l of his life for his county, Is the brother
 of the man. who marches to the stake
 Of the scaffo1d and sacrifices his life
 for his faith. Tn both 1t is the heroism which the world loves and worships, and the heroism which a war for re- hginn or country begets or fosters, is worth more to a nation than all 1t cost for without it no nation is A living or advancing nation. 4 country which has ceased to produce heroes. l Is like religion which has ceased to produce martyrs. It is on its decline.
 railing or fallen; and has no Iongcr any work for God or man to do. But young America was not On the
 decline. It was not fallen or falling.
 It had work for God and man to do.
 And you known what that work was: l The American Revolution e work which had to be done. when in the Ian. gpage Of the poet:
 "A king forgot he was man"
 Yes. ladies and gentlemen, kings are apt to forget that they are men; but l when they do. they are brought round l to their senses in a manner more 1orci- ! ble than attractive. They are made to learn lesson, which they disregard at their cost and peril. the lesson | taught the English George the Third by our own peerless. matchless, unpar- alaeled. American, George the First, the only George. George Washingtou; that
 men may be led but not driven; per- suaded but not coerced; subdued but not brow-beaten: that when, at last, stung into resistance and retaliation | by the crushing, grinding, iron-heei l of despotisn. they rise In the might | Of their trampled rights, the result is a revolution, such as that which, in IT'S shook two continents, and gave birth to new. republic at whose rapid and l gigantic strides in the path of progress. culture and civilization the whole | world stands today in unnitjgated 1 wonder. The stub born autocrat of the British realm had reckoned without his host, when he endeavorcd to force for the sturdy limbs of young Colonial