Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-06-03
LET LOYALTY TO GOD
Be YOUR WATCHWORD.

our people. In God we trust. Yes
we do, and so vital is our faith that
we no longer content with passive
sympathy ana empty prayers for
| peace, but intend at least TO try TO he
equal to what God has a right TO ex-
pect from us, and to back up our
prayers to Him TO do for us what we
ought TO be doing for Him. but by
bending our every energy TO help
bring about lasting peace-not only
for ourselves but for the worldly a
victory so thorough and convincing
that it will be possible, as never be-
fore, for all men everywhere, regard
less of race or country, TO live their
lives as God intended We must win
this war in the name and with the
blessing of God victory will be ours.
Then, when Right and Honor are no
longer prevented by brute force may
even those who are at present our
enemies, once set free from the yoke
of the soulless and blasphemous Pots
dam Parasites who have blinded their
eyes and held them in serfdom,
recover their birthright. Later on.
after a thorough repentance, proved
by deeds as well as words, they may
once more be fit TO be called mem
bers of the human family, as being
once more possessed of the God-given
buried under the iron heel of Prus-
sianism.
True patriotism is not national, but
international. A greater word than in
dependence is inter-dependence. Sell
fishness, national or individual. can
end only in self-destruction- code
for nations and for individuals is one
and the same
80 nothing can shake our high re-
solve. From now on every effort and
energy and resource we have, devoted
under God, to do His will and as His
instrument until this war shall end
in peace through victory over the
incarnations of hate and evil with
which we engaged for a fight to their
finish
Jesus died to save the world To-
day, literally, hosts of young men,
many of them known to us, are fol-
lowing in His steps. Leaving all they
go forth with their lives in their
hands. Comfort, career, and even ex-
istence they are sacrificing volun-
tarily to fight the battle for God. In
the spirit of their Master they, too, are
dying to save the world.
The people that do know their God
shall be strong and do exploits, wrote
the prophet Daniel Blessed be the
Lord my strength Who teacheth my
hand to war and my fingers to fight.
Sometimes we feel ashamed as we
read such sentences in our Bibles
Living long before Jesus walked this
earth, ages before the events of
Bethlehem, Calvary and Pentecost
with none of the countless experiences
of others or ourselves which bear wit
ness for us, with a revelation of God
so small compared with our own and
yet, so often, how much greater is
their faith than our own!
God has given us a task, and we
are co-workers with Him. The one
great treachery to Him and to our
flag is to doubt or despair of our ulti-
mate success. In this Chapel, in a
sense the Mother Church of our Navy
there rest the remains of the first
great Admiral of the American Navy,
who gave to it it's earliest traditions of
valor and victory who from sinking
ship with a logged perseverance and
courage magnificent, has sent down
through the years that ringing spur
to renewed effort, Surrender? 1 have
not yet begun to fight and wrestling
a splendid victory from what seemed
like defeat We are his heirs in the
service, and as we think of our flag
today in France, saluted affectionately
there and elsewhere by our brothers in
arms, we remember, too, with pride
that it was the same ancestor in the
service who first threw old Glory to
the breeze from the mast of an Amer
lean man-of-war and obtained in
French waters its first salute from a
foreign power And our latest great
Admiral (but not, please God, our
lasO George Dewey. He it was who
laid the cornerstone of this Chapel.
He. to whose burial only the other
day as of in benediction those colors
above our altar were carried by the
regiment who went by his own re-
quest as his personal friends. He it
was who after the battle of Manila
Bay declared, Gentlemen, higher
power than ours has won the battle
today.
And as the very top of another
beautiful window which will grace
this house of God, the Farragut Win
dow, will shine forth the life-motto
of that glorious soul, The Lord is my
Leader.
The Present is but bridge from
Past to Future. The things We light
ly take for granted or selfishly call
our own are ours only in trust. Our
land itself. our homes, our liberty and
citizenship, our schools and our re-
ligion have come down to us preci-
Gus heritage, always by the labors and
struggles, and often through the life
blood of those who have gone before
And you and l in the Navy are doubly
pledged to hand them on intact to
those who shall come after.
Our flag to us means that and
more. AS now it waves upon that
terrific battle front in Europe, it not
only symbolizes to us the lofty aims
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