New Britain herald., 1916-05-30
NEW BRITAIN JOINS
 IN IGNORING DEAD
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yourselves went to the front as voun- teers out of the loyalty of your hearts. You went not as professional fighters, not as mercenaries. You went to de- fend the nation and to win freedom for a slave people. You count your uniforms honorable, not for the bat ties which you fought, but for the na- tion which you saved, the flag to which you are ever loyal.
 Should we not honor the boys in grey also for their loyalty? We do Loyalty met loyalty on the field. Chivalry and deeds of mercy shone forth again and again to mock the dreadful struggle. Tn devotion and loyalty to their cause the men of the South were Americans also. The chances of war decided the victory to the Blue, defeat to the Grey. It is not after all so much by victory that men are estimated, but by the char acter of their loyalty. You were loyal to the ideals of unity brotherhood and freedom. Had you stood weaponless in dropping lines of defeat, we should still hail you as heartily today for your loyalty. We honor the men in grey for their loyalty; but we feel, and they realize now that the heat of the struggle is gone, that their loyalty had lesser object than yours. In the clash of ideals and ideas, the oppos- ing ambitions and aims of men, we see, therefore, that it is most essen tial that our loyalty should be fixed upon the highest cause. Then come what may, let our loyalty be unswerv- ing, and we shall be found, when the issues have been Joined and the end
 
 done we'll.
 Professor Royce defines loyalty as ''the will to manifest, so far as is pos sible, the Eternal, that is, the con- scious and superhuman unity of life, in the form and acts of the individual self.' This is as much as to say that religion is the sphere wherein the su- preme loyalty comes to expression. My text therefore is, Seek ye first His Kingdom and His righteousness (Mt. 6:33) The Kingdom of God is the greatest cause to which loyalty may attach itself. It is the cause of humanity, not of a single race or To- cality. It is the cause of right, duty and happiness. Consider the supreme lopalty Of Jesus Christ. He refused to despair of the worst wreck of hu- man1ty He came to minister, not to be ministered unto. He died rather than to deny the verity of the unity of his soul with the eternal He spake words of fundamental truth, and lived by them dutifully. Even tragedy could not quench his happi- ness.
 men of loyal hearts, here was a man to love, to follow unto death. Here Is the Kingdom worth sacrifice and devotion. Follow Christ; let our loyalty be to the Kingdom of God, and let all lesser royalties be conson- ant herewith and we shall be worthy of the well done!" of God
 Patriotic Services in Church..
 Last evening patriotic services were held in the First Congregational church. Rev. Henry w. Maier was the orator of the occasion ad spoke on the subject: True Americanism; It's Hu- man Rights It was an address teeming with patriotism and was well received by those who heard it.
 The services opened with the Rev. pr. George w. c. Hill, pastor of the South church, giving the invocation, followed by a scriptural reading by the Rev. Dr. $. G. Ohman, pastor of the Swedish Lutheran church. Com mander F. V. Streeter of Stanley Post, G. A. R., made his official an- nouncements concerning today's ex- ercises and Mayor George A. Quig- ley extended an address of welcome, the salient parts of which follow:
 we are living in a time of great unrest. On all sides we hear talk of