South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-11-22
HATRED LINGERS IN
AMERICAN HEARTS
DAVIS
Would Kindle Dozen Wars.
Pastor Says in Even
ing Sermon.

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live in ease. He was not an adven-
turer. lie came 20 establish a
home. He came TO build a com
muulty. He came TO make a land
where God would be honored and
men left free 20 worship Him"
Now what does America owe TO
the Pilgrim spirit? Let Us notice
It's discovery Some historians
think that America was discovered
about 1000 A. d. by Eric the Red.
But they also tell us that he and
MS sturdy NOrsemen made no set
tement. Then it is Of little con-
Germ whether or not Eric the Red
discovered America: the significant
thing is that the affairs Of the gods
OF Walhalla did not find a place in
the new world. In 1892 Columbus
landed on the shores of a new land
and ne christened the place on
which he landed San Salvador.
Land OF the Saviour Thus did
America pass under the Christian
name.
Played Part i'm Republic.
First came the men who settled
IN Virginia. The first building
built in that colony was canvas
church. y little later came the Pill
srlm5 on the Mayflower. Soon came
the Puritans, who settled around
Boston. Then too were men Of
God, men OF the Bible, men of con-
vlctlons, men Of prayer. Then
came the men of religious Holland.
ON the mast head of their ship
there was the motto For God and
the Church. Then came the Huge
nOts, driven from France because
OF their faith. Men of the open
bible, lovers of the Psalms. Then
came the Scotch COvenenters and
the Quakers. men who were strong
IN the fundamentals Of faith and i'm
the obliga u)ns of conscience. These
were the founders Of America. In
every ease II was Christian men
who laid the foundations Of our
civic institutions and in those
foundations the Bible and Christian
faith We're prominent.
The spirit of the Pilgrim played
large part in creating the spirit
OF the republic. The spirit OF the
Pilgrim was a spirit of religious de-
VOtlon. They put God above earth
ly rulers and took God into all the
affairs Of their daily lives.
The spirit Of the Pilgrim was n
EFFORT 20 establish the divine order
i'm the world. 1t was a recognition
OF the truth that religious liberty is
the generating principle of civil lib
erty and that civil liberty is the
necessary condition of religious lib
erty.
America is prosperous America
has plenty to eat Yet America was
never rfnonrfafw IL
act so surely nor believe so posi-
lively as our fathers did. The war
~ over but the old hatreds engen-
dered by war remain. There are
enough hatreds in the world TO kin
die dozen wars. We need today
the gospel OF love preached with
such appeal that will turn men
from hatred. Nothing but the Cos
pei of love can do this We need
a fresh consciousness of God. This
was the controlling spirit Of the
Pilgrim. Far more important than
attaining wealth or fame or influ-
ence is 10 know God with whom we
have 10 do. We need a deeper
sense of righteousness. The Pill
grim put the emphasis on goodness.
Nothing but goodness satisfied. Cor
rupuon was the one thing TO be
hdteu ana gotten ria OF. How this
sense OF Righteousness would make
men honest. would make men sober
and law abiding. II would clean M
our cities. We need today a pas
sion for goodness and an erthusi-
asm for the right and the right az
God sees it, This is the Pilgrim
spirit Il believes that every man
IS sent from God; that he has a d.
vine MESA sc 10 declare. a divine
charge 10 keep, a divine purpose 10
tulnI. Such a sense gives one a
conception of the divine value OF
his own personality. redeems him
from the trivialities OF life and sets
his heart on the eternal things
above"