The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-03-19

hate you brother, you say you love
=God=whom you have never seen and
hate our brother whom you have seen
there Is not love of God in your
heart. If you say you love America
that you have never seen, and don't
love GlRrlIsburg that you have seen,
then you don't love America.
Shown Locally.
Now, you are beginning to see what
/ think about patriotism. Patriotism
is locally shown. 1t may be neces-
sary to fight, but II we love America
we have got to show 1t right where
we live. And it is here in CONNER
cial organization in the last fifteen
years Of the history of the United
States, the rapid development of COM
mercial OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Is three
10 four thousand like this one in
Clarksburg-there we find the be-
ginning of local patriotism, because
these men in lettering themselves
about Brownsville, or Connellsyille.
or Fairmont, or Wheeling, or any
other place on the face of the earth.
they say to US, this is my place,
link myself with other fellows of this
place. We love this place. we will
make 1t something better than 1t has
been" Thus We show that we are
Americans and love America, so that
this campaign that the board of trade
is making Is call for patriotism. 1t
is call to service, to a place that Is
nearest to you; 1t is call on you to
love your neighbor. and the answer
has got to be given by you to these
various groups in the next few days.
and according to the step you take,
and expect there will be some hold
back who could afford to come in,
the choice is to go by in the next few
days, DO YOU LOVE CLARKS-
BURG? If you love 1t show it by
your acts. and those who make 1t
their choice in the negative, no mat
ter how wealthy they may be, they
are mean, contemplate, non-patriotlc
members OF community that has
largely helped to make them rich and
what they are.
want in closing to put 1t more
strongly than l have. Clarksburg is
a religious town speaking largely.
don't mean that 1t is purltanlcal. but
mean that there is spirit OF re-
ligion in the town Creeds? No,
l am not talking about creeds. There
is u spirit of religion In this town,
and many Of you are trying to answer
for yourselves, isn't there something
divine in me?" And you seek 1t and
you find 1t and you know OF no bet
ter way of expressing 1t than you have
Joined the church. But the town is
religious. there is no question about
that. Then let me talk religiously.
I have said to boys In high school,
because suppose in the last two
years have spoken to 100000 high
school students in the United States
] remember saying to n bunch of boys
recently, in u business school in Rich
mond, Va. Boys II you learn to
reverence yourself you can do no
harm to any one, because IL you row.
erenve this that God has made, you
Immediately see that all the fellows
around you we're made by God and
you must reverence them" After
wards two boys came up to me and
expressed thanks because had
helped them to see a way through
the difficult question.
Now good friends look at it your
self, each of you.
Just Little Voice.
am here. conscious Of reasons for
reverenclng myself. am; therefore,
conscious of reasons for reYerenclng
everybody else that meet. They are
as divine as l am. I am Just little
while here; ! am alive. speak, think
and act. A few years back when II
can't remember anything: n few
years forward and I can't see any
thing, but here am, alive. feeling.
acting. / look and see that 1 am
one OF great stream that back be-
fore history is recorded was made up
Of creatures such as |. and look for
ward and believe that when / am
gone creatures such as ! will carry
on the affairs and the destiny OF the
world for generations probably and
possibly without end. Then what am
i? Lam just little voice, heard be-
tween two wonderful sIlences. Be
fore was-silence; after am gone,
silence. What then am i to do with