The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-11-28
Service Flag Address.

U8 rev. ~. Is h6dhnCEALdAD pcSpCA -
Emanuel Lutheran church, Man
chester, at the unfdrling OF a ser
vice flag: N
'Have this mind i'm you which was
@Aso i'm Christ Jesus" Motive il the
inner, driving, moving power. It is
Hdur moral motor. And it operates
In your life to make you useful and
MeIpful to your fellOW-man whether
Me b. of your class or country or
M@t, for this is the mind Of Jesus.
I'VE are in reality what we are
In critical circumstance" To have
opportunity, occasion, power, to do
~F be something less than the Mas
tar Motive directs and yet rise above
lfttleness to higher and better
things is to have a Master motive.
10 Be- in the place to capture, crush,
and scatter, your foe or enemy and
vet rise to the higher level and
SNARE like David did when he had
Eins Saul in his power, is to prove
ones self Christian OF the Master
type.
ITO be soldiers and win gloriously
amd spoil abundant about you ana
mumain clean and honest is to prove
that you are soldiers under the Great
R1antain OF our salvation. Lit is as
Paul i'm another place WrlteS'
4%either count / my life dear as IN
tn myself. This explains the Chris
kian man and the Christian soldier,
fearless and humble, "unfraid, I'M
41aunted, with tremendous opposition
aMalnst him, he never noted personal
dangers or felt impelled to turn
aside from a God given pathway
He went on.
"+In the exercise of a great Master
Motive, daring, hazard, 1nfllcted
auffarings are not the only cause for
DEVELOPMENT. The fine fiber OF
character is made while waiting the
areat test yet doing the unseen, OF
TEN mental, Iaborious, toll of defense
nreparation This discipline makes
tine man of power. It is this waiting
like the iron giant on the steel
rails; coaled, fired, blowing steam,
verify painting to pull the great load
that indicates the character of red
blooded American sOldiery who Serv-
ed in the colossal world war.
'fYou and every other American
saw service. 1t may have been mr.
ing line. reserve camp over seas,
training camp in U. S. A., on the
brifged Atlantic. or in seeding and
harvesting the crops that fed the
world; in lonely, desolate. homes
where sweethearts, wives, Or moth
ers, waited and worked and wept
and prayed for you; or fathers IN
office, shop, field or roadside who
tugged at invisible darts in the heart
and dragged their weary feet along
because literally worn out and IA
igued over the extra labors they
undertook This was the test Amer1-
cans met because the undergirdlng
power was of the Master.
Twelve months ago ringing bells and
throbbing throats took UP the song
of Peace and Immediately began to
look for your return and to listen
fer your Voice And you are here.
We thank God for your safe return.
We praise Him for healing your
wounds. We pray for those who
offered as you did but who will re-
main manned for life. We cherish
the memory of those whose bodies
elumber in France or Flanders. We
kept your memory fresh with the
service flags and we frlrl them today
Instead we point you to the Christian
Flag and ask you to be as true to
that as you were to the Stars and
Stripes. What you did do, you can
do. Become world servants now in
hearing the Good News to all man
kind
Don't let sin slip i'm between you
and your Master. 1t will be like
sand in the Cylinder-ruining and
destroying Your Master showed the
Way Of Truth-never be found in the
way of falsehood. He was ever in
the way of holiness-don't follow
the bend of sin. He found honesty
the best policy'-don' stoop to dis
honesty, or theft, not OF money or its
equivalent, but of character and
that your own.
do not think, as some have stat
ed, that your service, or your wounds,
or your denials; nor your recital Of
creed or formal reception into
Church or an extra liberal gift in
dollars, don't think this meritoriOus.
We are saved by Faith and not by
works. Works become the eX-
ponents of Faith.
You stood on one side against
the other with nearly 60 million men
with casualties numbering in wound
ed, death, missinf, prisoner, nearly
33 million. You barred your breast to
gas and saber, bullet and shrapnel,
liquid fire and bomb and God only
knows what else. Hunger and thirst
not only Of the body but exposure TO
the moral faint Of an immature and
distorted view morality and CONT
nence. We greet you today-strong-
CT men. May God keep you strong
er still.
"You helped silence and made pos
Sible the silencing of the demon of
war. VIII you fully enlist in the
great offer to help silence the demon
Of sin? The call is great The Mas
ter Motive impels you to enlist
You served at $100 per day and
Keeps and you had little to keep till
Won met emergencies. Some others
aliens and hybrid citizens served
in other capacities at $500 per day
these expressed patriotism in fine
sayings and floating flags, often tat
tered and faded, and the size of their
checks for domestic or home service.
They made dollars and will carry
certain inner reasonable pang to
their last breath. While you learn
ed abstinence, developed disciplinary
mastery, deepened your trust and
fastened the home ties tighter and
have coma home wanted, welcomed