The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1915-11-25

invariably attached to the land OF
their birth, and know that there Is
always danger lest we boast great.
things on small grounds. An Irish.
man and Scotchman, SO 1t is said,
were one day argueing as to the re-
spectfve merits of their native land.
"Ah, WE'LL" said scotty, They took
down an old castle in Scotland the
other day and they found many wires
beneath it which shows that they
knew about the telegraph in Scot
land hundreds Of years ago." WELL
said Pat, "Then tore down an old
castle in Ireland while ago and be-
CORA there was no wires found under
1t, which proves that they must have
known about the wireless telegraph,
in Ireland hundreds of years ago.
It Is q good sign in our Scotch, in our
Irish, Scandinavian, German and
Canadian brothers to see the pride,
and witness the outcropings Of love,
they feel for the lands of where they
were born. We might question their.
loyalty and patriotism for the land
of their adoption of they failed In
love for the land of their birth.
Patriotism is a universal instinct. / In
the words of Walter Scott
"Breaths there man with soul SO
dead,
! Who never to himself hath said:
This is my own my native land?
Whose heart hath meier within
him burned,
AS home his footsteps he hath
II turned K. s
From wandering on a foreign
strand"
Freest in World. i T..
But, my friends it is not merely
| an outburst of patriotic sentiment
that prompts me to say that to no
other people hath God given such an
inheritance, as to America. It is a
fact, and while it is true that we can
boast of only little more than
centuary of national history, yet to-
day, we are the richest the most pros
| porous and the freest of all the ma
lions of the earth. And standing be-.
| meath the Stars and Stripes every
American citizen should uncover his
head, today, and render heartfelt
| thanks to God for his providential
leadings and his abundant blessings
on the land we love. '.'E
Believe in, God.
We are not a nation of atheists.
| We believe in God. We believe that
God rules and over rules in the af-
fairs of nations. That He putteth
down one and setteth up another and
that He increaseth the nations and
Edestroyeth them; He enlargeth the
nations and strengtheneth them
again" Statesmen plot, and aiplo-
mats deceive and armies fight as if
! the whole thing depended upon them
while the truth is it is God whose.
hand is concealed in all the history
of men," He who believes in the
Word Of God, and. studies history in
the light of the cross, can not doubt
that empires come and go, and that
states are born and perish, in obedi-
ence to His sovereign will. And we
have abundant reason to believe that
He who watched over the Children Of
Israel in thir flight from bondage in
| Egypt and gave them 'the cloud by
day and the pillar of fire by night"
also watched over the pilgrims in
their perilous voyage across the track
less sea and guided the Mayfower in
safety to those shores. It was the
spirit of God that breathed into them
the breath of Freedom and impelled
them to sacrifice their property,
their ease and all the material COM
forts of life they had, and turn thir
footsteps westward, and in midwinter
plant the empire of Freedom on
these then unpromising continent.
What hardships they endured in
those early: days we cannot imagine
much less describe certain am
that If God had not been with them
they would have miserably persisted.
| God Found a Washington.
And when in the order of provi-
dence the time had come to break the
grasp of England on the colonies, and
lay the foundations of Free Repub-
lie, God found Washington, to lead
the patriot army to victory, and
started the newly launched ship-of-
state on her divinely appointed
course.
When the time came to settle de-
fnitely and forever the real nation
al character of our government, and
remove that one foul stain on our
civilization, that no shadow of false
hood should dim the glory Of the
| flag of freedom, God found q Lincoln,
honest, wise, tender, firm, great and
full of faith to grasp the helm and
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