Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-03
LET LOYALTY TO GOD
Be YOUR WATCHWORD.
Said Chaplain Evans In The
Baccalaureate Sermon To
Midshipmen.
|SECTY. DANIELS PRESENT
Large Congregation Of Relatives
And Friends Of Midshipmen
Fills Naval Academy
Chapel.

SIldpcl.
With Secretary of the Navy
Josephus Danials distinguished
worshipper in the congregation that
filled the Chapel at the Naval Acad-
emy TO Overfowing yesterday morn
ing. the Chaplain, Rev. Sydney Key
Evans. u. S. ~, preached the bac-
calaureate sermon to the graduating
class OF Midshipmen who, on Thurs
day morning. will receive at his hands
their diplomas
The chancel and altar were elabor-
lately decorated with ferns and roses.
The music was a special feature OF
the service, the organ being supple
mented by the Naval Academy Orches-
ira under Prof TorOvsky. In the TIE
Deum, the solists were Midshipmen
W. b. Broadhurst and A. S. Adams.
In the anthem, The King of Love My
Shepherd Is" solos were sung by
Midshipmen w. c. Vose and c. r. Klo-
man. The hymns, The Son of God
Goes Forth to War" was first sung
and God of Our Fathers" with in
production by trumpeters in the gal
lery, was very effective After the
Benediction Eternal Father Strong to
Save" was feelingly sung. and God
Be With You Till We Meet Again" In
this the First Glass quartet, composed
of Midshipmen d. H. Clark, A. S.
Adams, w. C. Vose and f. Z. Herr
man, sang parts with great effect
from the gallery.
The Chaplain preached in his usual
earnest style from the text Psalm 144,
First Verse: Blessed be the Lord my
strength, who teacheth my hands to
war, and my fingers to fight" His
theme was Loyalty to God; The
Foundation of All Other Loyalties, -
and What Our Flag Signifies To Us
In Our Country, We Are Pledged To
Have The Flags OF Our Allies Signify
To Them In Their Countries.
Preaching without notes, as usual,
the Chaplain spoke, in part, as fol-
lows:
Those are the words of a great
fighter, but of one whose greatest
victories were those won over himself.
I'm the Psalms, the hymn book of
the Church, we find a special appeal
because, so wide is their range, so
profound their revelations of the hu-
man heart, that wherever we are, and
whatever our condition of soul, we
are able in them to find a revelation of
ourselves.
Nor are they merely individual in
application. | have made the Psalm
lists words our text today, not only be-
cause you and believe in God, in God
Who has a direct and vital and per-
sonal relation TO every individual on
the face of this earth. but because we
believe He is a God of History and
now is using France. Italy, England
and the United States to work His will
just as plainly as ever He used Egypt
Persia, Greece and Rome in the days
of old.
The devout student of history sees
in il the Finger of God. and we be-
| lieve that the God Who so loved the
world that He gave His only-begotten
Son to die for it, has called our be-
loved country to the ever increasing
rshare which she is to have in this
world war for the sake of mankind,
as we'll as for her own. Centuries
thence the student of history as he
reads of the wrongs of Belgium, Ser
| via. Roumania and Armenia, will be
liable to find in large letters Gods YER
Idict upon the Assassin Nations and
International Lepers, the Central
powers and their atrociously unspeak-
able Ally.
/ THE world catastrophe is a tragedy
l'and crime beyond all language, and
after all these centuries of civilization
and progress so called! Civilization
measured in terms of material crea-
ture- comforts. Progress with God
ithe Inspirer of all time progress very
foften forgotten. The awakening was
| a cruel one. But our eyes are oper
| as a people and as individuals, open
wide And we count il a glorious priv
ilege which God has given 10 oul
| country and 10 each one Of US
whether in the Army or Navy, at ths
front or elsewhere, or as civilians, q
part no less real and necessary, il
/ preventing the total eclipse of the SUI
OF Righteousness Who came TO be tht
healing OF the natiOnsby the utter de
| struetiOn az the hands Of the Huns o
an the Savior come 10 bring and tC
1 establish.
Almost within a year our natioT
/. has been reborn. No longer is there
4 a North. a South, an East or a West
| Sectisnalism has disappeared and will
i il has gone the hyphen- The sickly
uninteIligent and unchristian pacific
| ism which was so ready to seize upon
every advantage of American citizen
ship and equally eager to dodge ever!
responsibility has found it impossible
TO retain even a semblance of re
spectability. The truth of the E
| nluribus unum upon our coins is ns
longer open to question. The eagles
kness of vision IS at last truly
symbolic of the mental perspective o