Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-07-23
How to Make Ours
an Ideal Nation
sermon by
KEW. FLOYD w. TOMkINS.
Text: ]. Peter II. 40.
Text: ]. Peter II. 40.

JcIt: j. Pctcr III. Ito.
Inc midsummer this year finds us in
nc midst Of many perplcXing problems
men test our loyalty and our faith.
TN the whole world at war and with
threatening condition on our own
orders. We arc forced TO look once
more at the high ideals which have
tool firmly since We became a nation
no To reconsccratc ourselves TO God
nj 20 our country If IL is true
md Il certainly is true---t!iat the
nan OF high ideals approaches most
Eearly the ideal man" then it must be
Jne Of nations that the holding 10
oblc principles will bring ia time
oble land with noble people as its
i'izens. The danger lies in the temp
alton 10 lower those ideals because
the seeming i,npossibi!ity OF their
peeny realization.
We in the United States AN inn
a'ient people. We want to do things
a day when common sense tells us
mere must he gradual growth; we
want TO hit hard at wrongs when We
&c them, regardless often OF the OK
'ediency or Of the direction of our at
S3cE. Enthusiasm and aggressivcness
|re splendid characteristics for a man
~ . nation to possess. Never must We
arc TO lessen our forward movements
suffer prudence TO dampca ardor
|u' wc must learn that wisdom ana
asth have also IA part TO PLAY in all
pman affairs, and we have no right
% injurc a good cause by our wild
ndeaTors 10 establish that cause with
~ consulting God and submitting
urselves TO His guidance.
rnuE PATRIOTISM -
FART or CHRISTIAN
u is we'll for us to remember tina,
rue patriotism is q part ri Chris
iar!ty. Cod has given us our national
'onc, and. therefore. we arc To love
,nd serve and defend from evil tho
Band OF our birth and OF our adoption.
Ne who loves his country is fulfllinc
N:<ds will. We must remember also
: Rut cheap and ill-tempercd criticism
II our country. or OF it's rulers, whom
Y" ourselves have appointed, IS no,
consistent with high loyalty. Love is
rot blind. but love also is not bitter
pr cynical. To cry down the Lana
Which is ours. to criticize its prin-
irlcs and 10 express doubts on its
urv'-al is the part Of craven. ono
ammo. but regret that thcT" arc som.
Who have made themsclv public cen
ors OF conditions and OF men. The:
Re not true rcformcrs. for they think
20 highly OF themselves. and NJ their
wn opinions. Good men sec tho cvi.
nd seek TO root it out. but they sac
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