Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-05-14

/ stated that he mas done more for the
| navy than any man in its history. AS
/ Georgians and members of the church
/ that has sent over two hundred thou
sand of its sons to support our flag. you
/ should take great pleasure N hearing
the Honorable Josephus Daniels
When the applause had subsidized, Sec
| rotary Daniels began his address ty the
| statement that. since he was speaking
| from 4 p1lpit, ne would take text and
that text would be the words of the
Apostle Paul, Thank God and take
/ drove home throughout his speech, that
/ IL is time for America, for Methodists,
| for us all. TO thank God and take cour-
/ age" in the crisis we face.
There are in the army and navy to-
/ day nearly two million men, and these
/ will be increases to four million Or FIVE
/ million or SIX million or as many as
we need" he said. and they applauded
him wildly.
The yare calling upon me to name
1 destroyers more than once a day, we
are building them so fast" he declared.
/ At tmhis the cheers resounded louder
than ever.
He told of the last destroyer he had
named. one of the latest model types.
1t was named, he said. after young
man from Alabama, an ordinary sailor
/ lad. a gunner's mate, second-class. He
told the story of how this boy gave his
own life in saving his comrades from
destruction by submarine.
And So he said, I'VE named that
destroyer the 1ngraham,' after that
young man from Alabama"
| There was conmotion out in the audi
ence. man rose. He shouted to the
secretary:
And he was the son of an Alabama
Methodist preacher"
Once again the audience stormed Its
applause.
| Secretary Daniels emphasized the
lcementing of the nation and the stamp
/ ing out of sectionalism which this war
has brought about.
Nation Unified
The lighting men of America have been
| trained alike in Camp Grant and Camp
| Lee, Camp Sheridan and Camp stone
wall Jackson. Camp Sherman and Camp
| Gordon, said the secretary, and thus
| has the whole republic been born again
| in a common cause against the enemy
| of freedom and civilization
In beginning his address, Secretary
Daniels recalled that il was in Allan
/ IA that the patriotic Mckinley, Meth
odist warmed all patriotic hearts by
| proposing that on May 3Oth, of every
year the graves of the men who
fought under Lee and under Grant
should be cared for by the United
States government and decorated alike
in recognition of their common heroism
and their equal devotion to the right
as God gave them to see the right.
Secretary Daniels recalled that this ut
terance of the martyred Mckinley was
of a mart with the counsel of that other
president General Grant, when he
said "let us have peace"
Recently" said Secretary Daniels,
in selecting names for the new de-
stroyers. 1 came to Georgia for an il
lustrious name for this best weapon
against the submarine menace, and it
will be christened Tattnall, after the
brave Georgia naval officer who made
famous. by his assistance to our Brit
ish cousins, the declaration that blood
is thicker than water The Tattnall
will fight alongside the Farragut, an
other evidence that the war of brothers
has left behind il nothing but common
conservation to a reunited country, mu-
tuaI appreciation of courage, e. which
demonstrated Americas ability to fight
without hate and without barbarism,
and to forget the differences which no
longer divide those sections once in
conflict"
One Methodist Church
Secretary Daniels urged upon the
two million Methodists of the south
that the time had come when all
! branches of American Methodism
should be merged into one mighty army
of militant Methodists. I'm this SUI
prem ehour, when partisanship has
bourgeoned into patriotism, when sec
tionalism has blossomed into national
unity. and love of the republic has
broadened to make possible freedom
and democracy for all nations, great
and small the supreme duty of Metho-
dists north and south, is to make any
and all sacrifices that may be neces-
sarv 10 mobilize Methodists into one
mighty church. We have lost much by
the divisions and seen much wasted eff
fort There is no excuse for a north
err Methodist church in Atlanta or
southern Methodist church in Seattle.
| II politicians and business men have
| forgotten there was a Mason and
Dixon's line. the Methodist churches
/ cannot wisely longer march in sepa-
rate columns under separate organiza-
| tiOns Efficient maneuvering against
| the forces of evil call for a solidarity
/ of movement for the overthrow Of evil
/ This demands the uniting under one
/ organization of all who p:oud:y follow
where Wesley blazed the way. Why
I delay? Once let Methodists of all
+ branches see that their high duty is to
/ unite, and the obstacles will be made
/ to melt away and during the world-war
| We snail see a compensation in a
/ Methodism that is one in faith, one in
/ zeal. and one in resolve to measure up
! to the high responsibilities which large
/ membership impose upon IL united in
! one organized force. With the largest
number of communicates Of any Pro.
I testant church in America (seven mill
/ lion communicants), the opportunity of
/ service and responsibility for rendering
/ the highest service is a call to Metho-
dists to re-adopt the shibboleth of
1 Wesley the world is NJ parish and
| 90 forth to carrying the Old gospel to
| men in arms and in carrying cheer as
| well into the homes from which these
! young men have gone TO win the vic
| tory for all we all hold dear.
One Supreme Command
a recent occurrence across the
waters give a new reason, and a con-
| vincing one. for one organization of
Methodists." continued Secretary Dan
iels. FOR more than three years the
| allied countries, each under ITS own
military commanders have waged war
against one centralized military power
They have fought we'll and braveiy,
their leaders have not been wanting in
ability and courage, but there lacked
the unified direction which rs essential
for successful warfare America, from
its earliest entrance into war, favored
I one suprer,e command of All the allied