Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-23
POINTS TO DUTY Of
SAXON RACE
DR.. Locke breaches on Kinship
of the United States and
Great Britain
BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER
Pastor EuIogizeS the Late King
Under the Gracious Title of
Edward the PeaCemaker'
BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER

tloH cheering and clapplng its hands
was presented in the First Methodist
Episcopal church last night when the
pastor, Charles Edward Locke, COM
pleted his sermon in memory of Queen
Victoria and her illustrious son, King
Edward, Blood is Thicker than Water,
or Gods Great Call to England and
America"
Rev. Mr.. Locke soon had his auditors
in tears through his able tribute to
England's dead queen and to the son
who followed her IL ruling over the
British empire. At the conclusion of
his address, when the orchestra broke
forth into the strains Of America" the
congregation, unable to restrain its
emotions, cheered and applauded the
speaker.
The pulpit from which DR.. Locke
spoke was decorated with the Ameri-
can and English national colors,
through which crepe was intertwined.
The gist Of the speakers address was
that the hands across the sea should be
extended from America in sympathy
for England's bereavement, and ask
ing for still closer relation between
the two great countries.
Tonight our hearts go out In pro-
found sympathy for the great English
nation In the loss of their masterfu1
King Edward our nation and the whole
Christian world is bereaved. In this
age of preparedness for war, of i'm
pregnable fortresses and massive war
ships, huge engines or war, and of i'm
mense standing armies, to have had
the monarch of the greatest European
nation win for himself the gracious
and Christlike title of Edward the
Peacemaker,' Is an impressive achieve
ment.
1.-THE antagonisms which arose be-
txryAn IQv.t% %n4,, h. IL ~
coloniSts were the result of mistaken
foreign policy. In those days England
had fool for a king. Her American
colonists were blood of her blood, bone
of her bone; they were the descendants
Of Arminius, who defeated the Roman
legions at Teutoburg Wood, and of
King Alfred. They were the products
of long centuries of struggle for con-
stitutional privileges and the Magma
Charta. That little Mayflower was
filled with Anglo-Saxon courage and
conscience.
ut was because those American col
would not long submit to unjust taxa
| tion without representation. They were
not vassals. but loyal subjects. 1t was
this that led Edmund Burke to ex-
press his sympathy for the aspirations
of the colonists, and which gave Will
| liam Pitt the courage to declare in his
notable speech in 1777, IF I were an
| American as I am an Englishman,
while a foreign troop was landed in
| my country / never would lay down
my arms-never. never, never!' And
| 1t also caused England's most versatile
| historian to write that Imprudence and
| obstinacy broke the ties which bound
the North American colonies to the
mother state
Blood is thicker than water The
significant and prophetic emphasis put
upon this old saying by Commodore
| Tattnall has never been forgotten by
America and England. When In 1853
the Chinese made an unjustifiable at
tack upon the British fleet approach
| ing Pekin on the Pei-Ho river, the gall
liant American commodore disregarded
all the laws of neutrality and hurried
| to the relief of the English commander
| declaring as he did so that Blood is
| thicker than water!'
whether there shall be an alliance
offensive and defensive between Eng
| land and America, or an Anglo-Saxon
| federation, or an informal alliance,
sober and trained statesmen must de-
eide.
ENGLAND and America can give to
! the world universal language-an In
! dispensable vehicle in progress They
can give to nations their customs and
commerce, both of which are great
civilizers. They can bless the world
with mighty systems of education
common schools and institutions OF
| higher education. 1t is the mission of
these Anglo-SaXon people to dissem-
mate the principles of freedom.
RESPECT FOR wOMANHOOD
ENGLAND and America must teach
to the nations of the world respect fol
womanhood. The strength of the An
glo-Saxon race lies in the honor ano
protection which are ever accorded tc
the women Then, too, these two mag
nificent countries are under obligation
to take their religion to the world-s
religion which in it's conquest of love
and light has won for itself the su-
premest place in the faiths of the
world. Pagan nations are languishine
for the truth and the temples of Chris
tianity. Our ancient ancestors II
britain would have fallen a prey tC
their enemies had they not by theil
conversion to Christianity added lottl
ness of faith to steadiness of nerve.
before many years shall have passed
England and America, closely anf
more closely allied, can dictate peace
to the world and usher in that gla(
morning when there shall be un1versa
peace and the disarmament or TN
world. Perhaps 1t Is not so far ava!
as now appears, when only such armle
and nayies as will be necessary to per
form police duty will be needed on tn
earth. In the progress of Christianlt.
that day will certainly come whel
| swords shall be beated into plow
shares and spears into pruning hooks
Nav God hasten that triumphan