The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-07-13
lions GREAT ANNUAL PICNIC
independence Day Celebrated by Many Patriotic Features
&C. B. W.

physicians and surgeons of America, that about
80 1-3 per cent of mothers attended by doctors
in the city of Chicago die in childbirth This
statement was quoted in The Chicago Tribune
and other papers.
In Zion, the mothers and attending maternity
deaconesses trust God for deliverance in this
trying hour. Everything that the most careful
sanitation and common sense would dictate IS
done but no drugs nor instruments are ever
used, and no doctors are ever in attendance.
The results present wonderful record and
prove the truth of Gods Word, that women pro-
Tossing goodness shall be saved in childbearing
if they continue in faith and charity and holiness
with sobriety.' Ct Timothy 2:15)
Deaconess Lloyd worked under a trained ma
ternity nurse in England before learning of
Zion. Afterwards, upon receiving DR.. Dowle's
little message, "Do You Know Gods Way of
Healing" and launching out upon Gods mercy
for deliverance, she was healed when near
deaths door with consumption and other grave
ailments.
Since that time she has spent about thirteen
years in the work as maternity deaconess i'll
Zion, and has been called far and near, at all
times of the day and night and in all kinds Of
weather, to attend mothers. These mothers are
unanimous in their testimony to Deaconess
fidence in God.
Some Of the mothers and children composing
this wonderful picture had come from various
cities in Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and other
places, one mother having come from Oklahoma
largely to be included in it.
One child in the large company, on May 80 of
last year, was accorded silver cup given as
first prize at baby show by the Oakland Bust
ness Mems Association of Chicago. The mother
upon receiving the prize, told the judges that her
child was Zion baby and that the reason it was
so perfect in health and form was because it had
never tasted medicine and had been born without
doctor in attendance
READING OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENTS
At 2:3O p. M, company of people assembled
around the stand for exercises which were open
ed by the singing of America by all present
This was followed by the reading Of the Thr-
teenth Chapter of Romans by Apostle Darms,
after which he led the assembly in prayer
After some preliminary remarks, the Declare
ton of independence was read by Mayor
Clendinen
This was followed by an address by Deacon
Theodore Forby, city attorney for the City of
Zion, extracts from which are here given:
SYNOPSIS OF ADDRESS BY CITY ATTORNEY FoRBY
''You have just listened to the reading of one
of the most remarkable documents in history.
While today we are not arrayed against the same
tyrannical prince whose acts of oppression pro-
voked this declaration, if the Emperor of Ger
many were substituted for that prince this docu-
ment would be right up-to-date.
ct is indeed remarkable fact that our great
nation, which for 142 years has stood aloof from
all foreign powers should today stand hand in
hand, shoulder to shoulder with the British peo-
pie in unfolding the very principles OF liberty and
righteous government for which our forefathers
declared their independence, on July a, 1916.
"No people who have ever graced this earth
have higher ideals than the people of the United
States of America Is it then to be wondered at
that the peoples of the earth are looking toward
us for solution of the grave and menacing prob
lens which confront all Christendom?
eve cannot see far into the future, but, basng
our Judgment and hopes upon our high ideals,
we cannot help but believe they will go far toward
settling the problems which agitate the nations
| today.
Government is of Divine origin. We must
needs have government because the people, in
their complex relations, require that rules of ac
ton be established to give direction to their polt
| ical and economical environments. Until God
sees fit to usher in the Millenniun1-the universal
reign of Christ, the Prince of Peace - there can
be no higher form of government than the rule
| of the people over the land.
eve believe that the objects of government
are for the betterment of society, and that man
can live for himself alone We must live unto
| Cod and in living unto God we must live for one
another. This principle is true as to Our ndivid-
ual relationships, and also as to relationships
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