The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-31
PATRIOTIC SERMON
BY REV. NJ 'IN1YRE
He Addresses War Veterans and
Their Families at Odd
Fellows Hall.
ANNUAL SERVICES FOR
GRAND ARMY POSTS
Music Appropriate to the Occa-
sion Is Rendered; Theme
of Discourse.

The Rev. Charles Curtis Mcintyre,
pastor OF the Westminster Presbyterian
church, preached the annual Decoration
day sermon to tho various patriotic or
ganizations Sunday morning at IL
clock. The services were held III the
I. o. o. F. hall on Market street,
and the large auditorium was crowded
to its capacity A large representa-
tlon Of both the James 3. Mexican
and tho George II. Maxwell posts of
the Grand Army of the Republic, and
the Woman'5 Relief corps of both
posts, The Sons and Daughters OF the
American Revolution, the Sons and
Daughters Of Veterans and thc Span
sh-AmcrIcan war veterans were pres
cnt,
Music appropriate TO the occasion
was furnished by the church choir and
chorus OF little girls from the LIN
coin school rendered several selections
In pleasing manner, The hall was
handsomely decorated with American
flags ard bunting of tho national col
ors. Beautiful flowers also were used
III the decorations. The Rev Mr. Me
lntyrc preached an impressive sermon
W DCcOTHIIDn udN. IlP
took for his text. Deut. vi, 40, Thou
shall keep his statutes and his COM
niandments which / command thee this
day that 1t may go we'll with thee and
with thy children after thee and that
thou mayest proloug thy DAYS In the
land which Jehovah. thv God, giveth
thee. - In part he said
Our civilization, which stands for the
sovereignty OF man, the cnthvonement of
nj IIf t0.. ...tN.t...
Inc guarantees of free education the in
compatibility Of the judiciary, the purity
o. the ballot. the protection of life and
properly, the recognition Of Christian in
Siltulions. exalted ideals. enlarged oppor-
luni;es and civil and religious liberty.
freedom and justice TO all-this is our
heritage evolved from our forCfathcrS
and preserved by Won, the gallant patri-
OTIS Of the civil war, every soldier OF
whom was hero ana the memory OF
whose noble dead We are gathered today Y
to celebrate
I call YOU TO witness that as our past.
its genesis. its history was founded and
and devotion 10 the King OF Kings. so
must our national future be determined
by our acknowledgment or Indifference 10
his laws and his love. that Il may go
we'll with us and our children and that
we may proonS our days in the land
which Jehovah our God has given us.
Peril of the Day.
Indifference and disobcdience to his
laws Is the great peril Of the present day.
1t is manifested in three general aspects
Of our modern life:
First, practical atheism: second. gen
eral iIrcYcrencc for the sanctions Of law, ,
and third lndiscriminatc Immigration.
Thus atheism is expressing itself in
that philosophy Of politics which claims
the nation is a mere human machine or
ganized for secular ends and having
nothing to do with God and religion;
also, and chiefly, in the multitudes who
ignore God. refuse TO acknowledge his
- l.,
rs individuals and n nation.
The exclusion OF the Bible from our
public schools. purely secular education
I'm our cities and state universities, the
decay Of sabbath laws and obscryances.
the vices which corrupt and destroy. the
briberies which poliute the seats or pow
atheistic tendencies of the hour. But not
less serious is the prevalent disregard
Tor law, not only FOR statutory and COM
morcial law. but irrcrcrence Tor the law
OF The family and social life, In the
sancti'y Of the marriage bond is the Sc
Curity Of the state You need not go out
of Utah to witness the evils OF modify
ing Gods law OF the family. and we re-
ioice that the intelligent sons and daugh-
tcrs OF polysamous parents realize that
their parents. although sincere in their
practice. yet. i'm the higher interests Of
tho soul and state, were mistaken. When
matrimonT is considered 4 common com
pact between two persons To be broken
at will, huge joke on society, ii is time
TO teach that marriage is divine and that
the purity and integrity OF the family
cannot be broken without impuuity to
the guilty as well as to the nation that
countenances il, From April 50. 1905. to
April 50. 1909. in New York. there WIS
one divorce for every thirty eight mar
races. in Chicago, one for every thirty
marriages; and III salt Lake county.
{ tab. one divorce for every seven mar
ridgcS
Unrestricted Immi migration.
Besides the pcrls TO national liberty
OF pra teal atheism and irrov"rrncC for