The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-28
1 WORLD PATRIOTISM THE TENDENCY NOW,
 SAYS DR. W. H. DAY
United Church Scene of I'm. pressive Memorial
 Service

Service
 A very impressive patriotic service was held at the vesper hour at the United Congregational church yester- day afternoon when the Fourth reg1- ment of the Connecticut Home Guard attended in @ body. To the strains Of Onward, Christian Soldiers" the men marched into the church. Col. Clifford B. Wilson, Lieut.-Col. Stephen P. Cro- nan and the various other officers taking places of honor at the front. Dr. Day, who is chaplain of the Fourth regiment, was assisted by Dr. Richard V. Swain, the former pastor of the South church. and Dr. George M. Brown, of the First Methodist church.
 Patriotic songs were enthusiastic ally sung in a way to stir the very heart strings. A double quartet rem dered very feelingly the anthem Union and Liberty by Booth. Bugle taps and the singing of 'Tenting To- night in memory of the soldiers of '61 added solemnity to tue occasion. It was fitting that the offering should be for the American Red Cross.
 Dr. Day gave a short address on the subject, '"The Larger Patriotism say ing in part:
 There are some things thia nation will not let die. There are precious memories that concern the history of the past. We shall never forget ths heroism, both North and South, in that great struggle which during this coming week we shall have upon our hearts and minds"
 
 to the South and her greater debt to the North, Dr. Day went on to speak of world patriotism, :'There came a time when man nealized that there was something greater than loyalty to the nation. Nowadays you very fre- quently hear people discuss whether or not the loyalty to the nation is not a dead thing, whether nationalism had not better be entirely obliterated in internationalism, whether it ts not irrational for an American to call himself anything but citizen of the world and to differentiate himself from an Englishman, a Frenchman, and all the rest. We seem today to be facing the larger thought of patri- otfsm for the world.
 We are proud of our beautiful Connecticut banner for it was m Connecticut that the form of the gov ernment of the United States took shape, but we are much prouder of our national standard We are proud to be under it's folds because of the days of '61, and we may now we'll be proud because of the days of 1917. When think of the boys wonder in the trenches, a few of them honoring this flag and bearing it in the fore front of the worlds great battlefield for democracy, when think of Wash lngton, Lincoln Webster, and so on down the line of men who have been the leaders in American patrf otism when think how those men have nodded the ideals of Europe and Asia when think of China as a repub. lie, and of what has happened ir Russia. then I begin to understand the ministry Of this flag to the world as it establishes a larger patrio tism than that which man has evel known. But that world patriotism is essentially a thing that is born ou of the religious spirit. Long ago 1000 years ago, one of the greates philosophers of that age came sayin, that God so loved the world that H, gave His only begotten son, that who l soever trusteth and believeth in Hin would have the life that lasts A nev note was sounded, it was the not, of prophet of a new age, and in measure 1t has taken 2,O00 years fo the world even to begin to wake LII to that wonderful philosophy of hu man life. It is portrayed in what WI speak of as the introduction of St Johns gospel. So in the, heart of re ligion we find the obligation of tn i,,. 1F other, and wherever our flag flies i is the symbol not only of loyalty t this nation, but also of that large world patriotism for which we hop and pray.
 And therefore wet set aside tn
 30th of May that we may remembe with joy and thanksgiving the sacri fees of the men and women of tn sos who kept this country one an fmaintained the honor of this flag first on this continent in order -tha it might be honored in all parts c the earth
 The Fourth Regiment, Hom
 Guard, State of Connecticut, assem bled for the first time in it's histor I yesterday to do honor to the dea
 defenders of America at the Unite
 Congregational church where min | 1SIefS rom many DENOMINATIONS Wer
 present to lead in prayer.
 , Ten Bridgeport companies re f sponded to the call, with the exceI ton of the supply company abser . at Hartford where they took fro1
 the stores a. quantity of uniforms sui
 fcient to equip nearly all the Bridge . port companies, and the companie
 from Stratford and. Fairfield.
 Over 800 men were brought to al
 tention when a stand of cotors ir
 cluding the national emblem and tn
 regimental colors was presented
 the aldermen of Bridgeport to Go
 Wilson commanding the Fourth reg
 ment. Patriotic speeches of de
 livery and acceptance were made.
 Though the fact is little known i
 Bridgeport the Fourth Regimen
 musters about 1900 men in Bridg.
 port and with 12 separate compa1
 district ihas now in training approl ies which comes under this milital l imately 2,200 Home Guards.
 Outside the city many compani,
 are purchasing their own uniform
 arms and equipment. It is declare | ci