South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-05-27
VETERANS HEAR
REV. HI. DAVIS
Pastor of First NJ. {. Speaks
on "True Patriotism" at
Morning Service.

a great audience filled the large
auditorium at the First Methodist
church yesterday TO honor the sol
diers of the civil war. the woman's
Relief corps and the Spanish Amer
lean Veterans.
The pastor. Rev. Henry L. Davis.
spoke upon the subject Of True
Patriotism. based upon Matthew
Zz-2, which refers TO the paying Of
tribute unto Caesar.
The first division of the discourse
had 10 do with patriotism or one
love Cor country. The second dis
cusseG the measure of patriotism.
Dr. Davis address was IN part as
follows:
Patriotism is virtue. Many re-
cent writer's have insisted that it is
vice Patriotism is only vicious
when il is exclusive. When il op-
crates under the spirit of the ancient
clan wherein love for ones own
clan meant hatred for every other
clan, but true patriotism while low
Ing ones own country seeks 10 re-
spect and honor the rights of every
other country Ii is the patriotism
of Jesus Christ. while loving the
land OF his birth and weeping over
the great city of Jerusalem. yet his
love extended To the whole earth.
The Most Miserable Man.
The most miserable man i'm all
the world is the man who either
does not love his country or has no
country 20 love As Walter Scott
said. Living ne shall forfeit fair
renown and double dying shall 20
down 20 the vile dust from whence
he sprung, unwept and unhonored
and unsung'
But what is the measure of pa
triotism? What tribute shall a man
render unto his government? The
soldier OF 1861 has answered for
us this question: He must he ready
to give all The soldier from 81
TO o. gave up the years of prepare
ton for life. left home and hreside.
and gave up his property, endured
untold sufferings and gave. many Of
them. their lives.
"And what did they gain by this
suffering They preserved the ma
tional union, they bridged all the
chasms of difference. and they have
handed down 10 posterity a seam
less Flag, which remains today the
most potent emblem OF human free
dom OF all the world.
Their greatest contribution TO
their country was in the fact that
settled forever the theory of ma
tional sovereignty as over against
that OF state rights. In making reg
nant this idea of national sovereign
IN they marched two million strong,
lost by death five per cent of their
numbers. the o-her enduring untold
hardships and suffering, and their
sacrifice today must be our supreme
basis of appeal in our attempt to
answer the false claims that have
been set up during this present
world war by those who are denied
The sovereign right of the president
and congress TO command every
thing that the American citizen pos
sesses. whether of property or of
life
Tribute to G.. \. r
I'm the second place the lesson Of
national sovereignty taught by the
veterans of the Civil war is a suffi-
cient answer 10 the outrageous doc
triue of the I. W. w. who sought
TO answer the governments appeal
Of conscription by strikes. sabotage
and murder. And further in its
white heat consumes their impas-
stoned attempt 10 array the west
against the east, and strike our sol
diers i'm the back while they face
the enemy on the continent Of Eu-
rope For union soldiers have dc
clared that there is no north. no
south. no east and no west.
There is only one way by which
we may repay the soldier of 81 for
his sacrifice and that is by handine
down TO our posteritv united
country. an unsullied Flag and by
the sacrifice. if need be. of our
property. our life and sacred honor
in order that the government OF the
people. and by the people and for
the people shall not perish from the
earth"