Milford chronicle., 1908-02-14
A Nation Under Protection.

- NdNiOu GAlAEl
Oh. that we would plead as much Tor
the divine protection in the develop
ment of our government as our ances-
tors pleaded for that grace before we
were born! We cannot in too many
ways honor that divine guidance. some
time ago the president of the unlteu
States had stricken off one Of our ma
tional coins the famous motto first put
there by Salmon p. Chase-"In Oou
We Trust" Our president is a deVout
man whose motives are above suspl-
cion. He removed the words, he eA-
pIaiued. because they were made SUD
iect of ridicule. But many of us re-
cret the act. The motto was appro-
Driate for a nation with such a history
as ours. AS I looked at those words
| could see the MayfiOwer pilgrims
crossing the Atlantic to Plymouth rock'
7 could picture the strange and Won
derful movements which led up TO the
| Revolutionary war | could see our
forefathers standing with the Declara-
tion of independence in one hand ana
with the constitution of the United
States in the other. l could see WASH
ingtou on his knees at Valley Forge
and John Marshall and Alexander
Hamilton doing their work, ana IhOih-
as jefferson and Livingston and Mar
cus Whitman doing their work. anu
Abraham Lincoln on his knees IN the
White House. Each generation hau
work for a Moses to do. May we as
true patriotic Joshuas trust him ana
continue to trust him in our hearts ana
lives though the words IN Goa we
Trust" be obliterated from every com
turned out from our national minus
Cod has blessed our national life III
the past. And Joshua left nothing
undone of all that the Lord command
ed Moses"
Pint when thinking of the great law
riyers of our political life my mlnu
naturally turned to the great leaders
of our theological life. Some OF you
know that it has been asserted that the
t form of the United States government
was copied from the form Of the Pres
) bvterian church of old Scotland. james
G. Blaine in one of his speeches claim
l ed this fact to be true; but whether
$ is true or not, one fact is certaln-n'
e temporal government is better than th'
n prevailing spiritual creed. II a peopi'
D.; have a cruel, a uniformed. DestIa
a idea of divine truth the government
= Of that people is sure to be DECEASED
= government. and there is no exception
d to the rule. so back Of the movers o
It tho amendments of the constitution o
r the United States, back Of the slgner
g of the Declaration Of independence
S hack of Samuel Adams and Harrlso
e Gray Otis, we must find our John FL
z OTIS. and Roger Williamses, ana la
$ SALES. and John Knoxes. and Latmer'
V and Ridleys, and Luthers. and Calvlh'
. and Savonarolas, and all who nav
:? tried to represent God to the world
10 God.of love. You could no more nav
Il Plymouth rock without Marston Moe
or the Declaration of Independent
without Bannockburn than you coui
have a physical body move and eat an
y drink and walk without breath In IL
l. nostrils. Our temporal government
III are only the echoes of our spiritual o.
'e Iiefs. The church or the mosque
u the temple always stands above u
Of legislative hall more potent than u
ID throne room, and there is no eXceptlo
to the rule.
Il A Broader catholieity.
"a As the mighty lawgivers of religion
10 reformation have done their wor
Z have they not left US some OF the
d. unfinished labor to completeF Shi
/. we not today get broader catholiclt
o' a wider sweep Of Christ's true purpos
" What is the use of having all these d
. ferent Christian denominations, wof
~ ing in many senses against each oth'
nc instead of ell the different members
the different Protestant churches w