Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-27
HONOR AT STAKE.
Mr.. ROSE SAYS
Local Pastor, in Sermon, De-
cIares Mexican Trouble
Is Greatest Crisis.

Rev. Henry r. Rose, pastor of the
Church of the Redeemer, preaching
yesterday on The Big Things at
Stake in the Mexican Crisis" charac-
terized the present trouble with
Huerta as 1.-The greatest crisis inI
American history" Notwithstanding
that, he said, America was unafraid.
THE honor of our country is one
Of the biggest things at stake in this
situation. This IS q matter that can
not be settled by arbitration" he said.
1T can only be settled by arbitra
ton"
hev. DR.. Rose said every patriotic
American ought to ignore any per-
sonal feeling he may have against
President Wilson and Secretary of
state Bryan for any reason and rally
to their support. Continuing, he said:
Our country's flag has been
trampled upon and dened anu if Jnei
is a drop of red blood in our veins
we will resent that insult ana defiance
and see that proper amends are made.
It Is not a trivial matter to insult the
American flag and il IS not somethin.
our nation can afford to pass over
lightly. The flag stands for our coun-
try and the principles of liberty and
righteousness at the foundation OF
this republic. The flag stands for our
sacred honor as individuals no less
than as a nation. The flag stands for
our homes and firesides. 1t stands for
us men and you women. Would you
allow anyone TO cross the threshold of
your home and strike your wife or
beat your husband or trample upon
your child? No more will you allow
q ruler Of any sort to insult your
country's flag. II we do not make
Huerta salute our flag as he ought we
Will destroy ourselves in the sight of
all Mexicans, and open the way to all
manner of insults to follow. We Will
lose our prestige In the eyes of Euro
pean nations and they will feel that
they must go into Mexico and pro
tsct their own citizens and interests,
and this would lead TO war between
us and those nations. Admiral Mayo
was right in his demand and Presi-
dent Wilson is right in backing UP
that demand.
Furthermore, our place as the
moral leader of this new world is also
at stake. We not only stand for the
Monroe Doctrine which means that
no outside nation shall rule or dictate
on the western hemisphere but that
we win allow no dictator to arise and
ascend the throne of any republic on
this hemisphere IL he does it through
murder or terror. He must have q
moral right to his throne or quit.
Huerta Is a murderer, having ordered
President Madero to be shot In cold
blood, and the great United States,
protesting to be @ Christian and a
righteous nation. could not and can
not recognize him as the president of
Mexico. To do so would be to stultify
ourselves and weaken ourselves at
home and wherever conscientious men
live and think in this wide world, We
are the moral leader of the western
hemisphere; It is our destiny to see
to it that the republics to the south
of us eventually become peaceful
through righteousness and prosperity,
through fair dealing and integrity.
ut win take the best brains OF our
nation to solve the Mexican tangle
and it will require the greatest pos
Gible restraint on the part of the
American people not to plunge them
selves into long and bitter and
costly war. The greatest crisis In
American history is probably upon
MS. and yet we are not afraid. We
have faced frightfuI situations before
and undertaken the hardest tasks, but
we have always gone through with
them and come out with flying colors
because we have always tried not to
get God on our side, but to keep OH !
Gods side. America is a moral ma
ton. All her wars have been moral
wars. She is face to face with an
other. / pray that 1t may not come,
but there is a peace without right
eousness that is ignoble and dis
astrous peace, and we don't want 1t.
We want peace with righteousness,
and history shows that in order to
secure such peace We have had to go
through fire and blood. But in the
long run il has been best for us and
best for the world. The American
who makes 1t harder for his President
and advisers to settle this thing
wisely ard we'll is not worthy OF
Washington and Lincoln. The Ameri-
can who is not ready to give Of his
money. his service and his life blood,
if the demand shall come, is not