New Britain herald., 1918-07-15

Inn ". Rose Breaches
 astile Day Sermon
 h Wallace Rose, pastor
 list church, delivered a
 Sin honor of French
 1ast nights services,
 Lafayette,- here we
 Rose spoke as fol-
 M day in the year 1917,
 Fer will be forgotten in
 bee, General Pershing,
 Bates of Anne erica with
 MkN5lis men, stood at the
 &A14uiS de Lafayette in
 &Iis and spoke a few
 &aSd wreath upon that
 never be foregotten
 people.
 khere ewe. are. he said.
 Atte2 His name was
 renowned either in
 Erica. Not far away in
 the setting sun was
 kaen glow through the
 Windows of the Chapel
 Des Inva1ids in which
 fcophagus containing the
 po1eon, the greatest mili-
 suf the ages. Why then
 #pArson has two selves, the
 Nthe real self underneath.
 Ation has two selves, the self ey seem to be to the world at 8nd the self that they are in
 Napoleon is the France the whas known. Lafayette is the of the France that is!
 eashe people of America owe noth- at all to Napoleon nor to what Fer spirit of Napoleon may still live h France. But we owe all to Lafay- stte and the spirit of Lafayette and .of the France of today which is the France of Lafayette. It was to the spirit of Lafayette, Lafayette who though born of royal family, believed n the right of the people to govern themselves, and whose spirit so guides modern France, that General Persh- ng saluted with the immortal words, Lafayette here we are.
 ''In 1775 in the western hemisphere democracy, the right of people to govern themselves, was born to the modern world.
 By the rude bridge that arched the flood
 Their flag to ApriPs breeze unfurled Here once the embattled farmers And fired the shot heard round the world.
 Across the vast Atlantic rolled its echoes. Across a tracllicss sea, across the lands of France up through the great white ways of Paris it resound- ed It knocked against the palace doors of the King of France. On the flippant gibe, the careless laugh, tho carousing of royal court, ii reached and touched the spirit of La fayette, a Marquis of France.
 What was the strange tale that came to him? Was it the story ot liberty triumphant and cOnquering a story of wild success, a tale that would touch the imagination of the soldier through the glory of win ming cause? Far from 1t.
 Washington in Dire Straits. After the first brief temporary success in Massachusetts the cause o1 the new bora republic T<,med upor the brink Of failure. So desperate was the cause that Washington wrote to Franklin then at the court o1 France: We must have money or we must have peace. The American army was disorganized, dispirited ant defeated. Our greotest general Washington, was leading a ragged handful of men in full retrea through New Jersey, whose Novembc. snows were tracked with the blood o bare, bleeding feet,
 "It was at this hopeless stage O the conflict that Lafayette crossed tht Atlantic to take up the cause of th' thirteen little Republics, Benjamil Franklin, one of America's first rep resentatives in France, honest Be1 Franklin, went to Lafayette when h. learned of the latter's determination to join the revolutiontsts and endeav ored honorably to dissuade him iron his journey. Ben Franklin Wantet Lafayette in America, but knowing conditions thought the young man zeal was outreaching his appreciation of the hardships over the seas Franklin told Lafayette there was n' winning cause to lure him, only a lit tie disorganized and weak, struggling poorly clad poverty stricken dispirit ed democracy.
 And Lafayette replied: Now i precisely the moment to serve you cause; the more people arc discour aged the greater utility will resul from my departure; if you canno supply me with a vessel I will charte one at my own expense and conVe, your dispatches and my person to tn shores of America.
 DO you wonder that after on