The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-15
WAR NOTE OF GUNS
In BASTILE SERVICES
Statutes From Ships Send Doves
Fluttering About
Cathedral.

The booming of guns on battleships IN
the North River disturbed a hock OF
doves high in the vaulted arches OF the
Cathedral of st. John the Divine during
the Bastile Day exercises. They new
startled from their nesting place. and
fiuttered out over the congregation and
about the tricolor fags of America and
France
A lighting chaplain. the Rev. Canon
Cabanel of the Blue Devils, spoke In the
little French Church OF st. Vincent de
Paul in West Twenty third street. before
a distinguished gathering OF American
and French officers. Detachments OF
marines and sailors from French battle
ehips now In port sat behind their Of
ficers. Chaplain Cabanel spoke In
French. He said in part:
"In those days of the Bastile, as In the
beginning Of this war. It seemed as II
humanity had gone mad. But out OF
travail there arose a purified. loftter
France, q France that for nearly four
years Of terribly tragedy has not let the
savage hordes pass the thin blue line
that holds them in check.
"On France to-day rests the response
bility Of holding fast to the ideals and
principles that for more than century
she has embodied in her national life
which she still lives. and which. please
God. she will never givo up. To-day In
the horrors of trench warfare. In the I'M
speakable bitterness Of the battle line,
the men. fighting and dying. are uphold
ing the best traditions OF people al
ways faithful to right. Justice. brother
hood and the fear and worship OF the
living Coo. .
The Rev. DR.. William H. Pott. arch
deacon of the Episcopal diocese of New
York. preached in the Cathedral OF st.
John the Divine to large congregation.
which included 400 Y. NJ. c. A. secre-
taries soon to go to France.
America commentaries the fall Of
the Bastile to-day" he said. mot merely
as an incident in French history. pictur-
esque and appealing to man. but as an
episode in the progress Of humanity
toward its goal. an effort put forth by
a sister nation awakening the soul of
man.
The pages Of history show that hu-
manity Is striving precisely toward one
goal. Every war has developed some
by-product. The one great by-product
of this war Is the awakening Of the
war believe the foundation of the unity
of the world will be found"
A congregation that included repre-
sentatives OF New York's most promi-
nent French families attended the SER
vices in the Church of Notre Dame, at
Morningsde Drive and 114th street
Father A. N. Arclbal spoke briefly, after
an elaborate musical programme.
The Right Rev. DR.. John Newton Nc
Cormick, Bishop of western Michigan
speaking at Trinity Church, said that
Germany's defeat in the war will be due
to its failure to realize that this is a war
of the world, as Louis XVI failed to in
terpret the spirit Of the French revolu-
ton.
DR.. Cortland Myers. pastor Of Ire
mont Temple, Boston. preached at the
Madison Avenue Baptist Church. with
special reference to Bastile day. Dr.
r. Salllens. a French clergyman from
Paris. assisted.
II want the Kaiser to have his pun
ishment here and in the next world as
WELL" said DR.. Myers Let them send
him to ST. Helena or Siberia, but hope
he and the Crown Prince will be made
hod carriers. whose duty 1t will be to
carry mortar and brick to rebuild the
homes and churches of France which
they have destroyed"