Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1917-08-16

REV. DR.. NEWELL self sacrifice Of
DWIGHT HILLS our at hers
pledges us 10 our
country's defense. He said that the
day when American boys carry the
battle flag into the trenches of France
will be golden day In the history Of
liberty.
Following is the second sermon Of
the series:
Text-And his sword was dipped In
heaven.-Isaiah
For the fifth time our republic has
entered upon war, defensive and Of
fensive, against foreign country. As
In our four previous wars, so now con-
gress has taken action only after
threatened invasion Of our land by a
foreign army or after hundreds Of
American citizens have been murdered;
our ships sunk, our property destroyed
and our institutions threatened. In
stating the issues OF the war our pres
tdent attained high form Of elO-
quence In speech that will have q
large place in the history Of our cOun-
try. Supreme eloquence means the
meeting Of three great things great
man. q great crisis and a great prin-
efple. II the presidents speech was
less Dramatic than Patrick Henry's
speech ct Williamsburg, less quotabis
than Abraham LincOli's spesch d
Gettysburg. LEES picturesQus than
wendell Phillips In Faneuil hall %
Beechers speech at Liverpool, T. ~
mains for u 10 afiirm that his addrsoo,
wss Q nobls and imps ssionsd plea IT,
The safeguarding Of free institutioaS
for ~ Au1an race.
Spirie q Democracy at Stake
From the very beginning Of this
mighty conflict wise men saw that or
entrance into this war was Inevitable
Lincoln once said that q house divided
against itself eanlOt stand; that ~
Fepublc could not endure, half slave
and half fSse; that II must become Ill
oos thing o. oil the other. New, n
rops y . house divided against itsslf,
and therefore cannot stand. 1t oanase
remain half autccratic and half demo
cratic. Il must become oil one than9
q oil ths othsf. Either Germany nust
oeoques ths alliss and impose autoc-
ncy upon these free governments o.
the ailies must conquer Germany for
ths overthrow Of autocrscy and mini
tarism and make the German peopl6
truly democratic. The battle line there
fore y between autOcracy on the one
hand and self government on the other.
New occasions teach new duties: tns
makes ancient good uncouth." Today,
therefore, every Individual. every city
and every nation must take ito stand
for o. against autocracy. individual
worth 10 the genius of American lnsti-
tutions. Every citizen is TO he made
wise, strsag. self sufilcing, aud there-
fore to be citizen king, governing
himself. The spirit Of democracy,
therefore. IL at stake. John Nj ;oa once
said that We had better XIII q noble
/ slaheyAsn ''siay-a- noble hook. Milton
meant that God can raise up another
man and an him with truth and genius,
but the hook is the precious lifeblood
Of q prophet or seer, TO he handed fog
ward and reproduced In thousands o.
millions Of men. Better. therefore, that
We STAY all the men Of this republic
than that we slay our institutions that
should reproduce themselves In millions
of free men that eau become the archi
tects OF states and the builders Of "
commonwealth.
The Stare and Stripes to Wave q IN,
| oattls Front Of France.
The great emaucipstT once said
that he was not anxious ~ 10 wbefhes
o. not God was on our side. hit ina, *
was deeply concerned with tue W.
ton whether we were Oh Cos -.
By the action Of cpngres. our 49,.
A.. rov wbe,r We shopid have poe"
to ara q half ycars ago, on tue Aos
-" c,.d.s uffIc ones for their protecuN's
, s.ssiins for the republic OF FRANCE iof
~. rrse institutions Of the other 'aN'es
ana so~ tho defense u our own repub-
lie Men Of fortitude aud patriotism
nave of,en felt huniilisted by tho fact
that we were piling up treasure Ia BILL
ions while France aud England were
lighting for the big mother Ideas OF lib
srty In Belgium. for which our fathers
fought In lite In America How thrill
ms the thought that from this hour our
swn soldier boys win carry the stars
end Stripes beyond the trenches, risk-
lns thelr lives for the great convictions
q their fathsrsl In THE c,lticsl hour
toe liberty asd humanity tue place for
ose 'bovs p no< the Aeld, net The fsc-
~. ~ ~ stsrs and Dsat; thsf
vAscs y wt1A the Oaastiss boys Z
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