New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31

Special patriotic services OF protest
and prayer in behalf Of the sacredness
Of national life will be held in the
churches Of the city tomorrow, the day
before the assembly in special session
of the Congress OF the United states
In forums, Y. NJ. c. AS and men :
Bible classes will be heard officials from
judicial, state and city life discussing
the national crisis and the responsipi-
ity of the citizen.
The pulpit is speaking as 1T dio N
the days preceding the Civil war; All
the way from st. Marks in-the-Dou-
werie, where the Rev. DR.. William Nor
man Guthrie speaks on What Thou
Doest, Do Quickly" TO upper Manhat-
tan, where Dr. Frederick W. Adams
breaches on "Prussianism, the Enemy OF
Mankind" you may hear one continu-
Gus patriotic appeal. 1t reminds one Of
old Parson Caldwell, of Revolutionary
War fame, who tore up his watts
hymnal TO make paper wsds for his old
muzzle loader.
"No greater crisis ever faced the
Christian Church and the Republic
than confronts US this very hour says
the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills.
"The national colors should be hung
from every belfry and should enshroud
every pulpit, and the day should be
one of prolonged prayer that the Con-
gress Of the United States shall now
do its duty as our patriotism and
idealism point the way. In the words
Of Washington, let us raise a standard
70 which the wise and the just can now
repair"
Feel Need for Arousal
"All good AMERICANS have felt the
need for the aroussl of constructive
patriotic sentiment among u.s." says
DR.. Guthrie, "that shall gather our
own national purpose and pledge US
anew to our political and social
ideals" The Rev. Henry X. Denlinger
has been pointing out in a series
of patriotic addresses, which culmi-
nate tomorrow evening, that America
is providential; that God is not dead;
that the eternal spirit challenges US
not slono in the sacred lives and writ
ings of thousand years ago, but IN
these. her prophets Of to-day. and espe-
cially in the life of Abraham Lincoln.
the prophet of the new Republic
A special patriotic service for to-
morrow and for use by the Christian
Church on all patriotic occasions that
are American public holy days has been
compiled by DR.. Guthrie. The historic
and religious appeals of our statesmen
and poets have been used for the anti
phonal responses and prayers IN the
service. There is a stronger martial
favor to the professional hymn, "God
Of Our Fathers, Whose Almighty Hand"
which is Immediately followed by Shell
'ey's prophetic musical prelude, The
Old World to the New"
A strong national spirit breathes all
through the antiphonal readings Sc
lected from Lowell's columbus and
Liberty" Freedom and knowledge
and Emerson's "The American Doctrine
Of the Individual" The first of Script
ural readings are the tributes Of JEFF
ferson and Lowell 10 Washington. The
conversational response is Whitman's
"The Prayer Of Columbus" The sec
ond reading from the Scriptures is
taken from the tributes to Lincoln
written by "The London Punch" Lin
coins prcmonitory dream and LowelPs
memorial poem.
Prayers a Feature
The most beautiful and apt patriotic
elections are the prayers. Phillips
Rrooks furnishes the call TO prayer.
The. follows a group Of collects for the
reople taken from Patrick Henry,
Thomas Jefferson. Samuel Adams, Dan
,el Webster and George Washington.
"Do not suffer our beloved America
n lose its soul and Cod" is the ap.
neal made by the Rev. Or. Karl Reiiand
recently in speaking on spiritual pa
triotism. "Go to your churches. live
YOUR religion. think of the spiritual
Conventions and personal dedicstions.
both of utterance and deed. which are
our heritage from Washington. Jeffer-
son. Webster and Lincoln. and from
many besides them, and live yourselves
for a spiritual patriotism in America
which will reach. like the life-giving
river OF Ezekiel, to the infinite ocean
and the brotherhood OF man"