The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-07-08
LOYALTY TO
NATION Is PLEA
OF LOCAL PASTOR
DR.. J. j. Dickey Attacks Bolshevlsm
and Socialism Il Sunday
Sermon.

SermOns
At the Little Brick Church. on
Sunday evening, July 3rd, DR.. J. ].
Dickey, the pastor, delivered a strong
appeal for loyalty to the nation and to
the fundamentals Of Christianity. In
part the pastor said:
blessed is the nation whose God is
the Lord. Psalm 1912.
We are approaching the 145th an
niversary of our nations birth. 1t
should he an occasion Of thanksgiving
to Almighty God who has so signally
blessed us by raising us from such a
feeble beginning to be the richest and
mightiest nation on the earth.
believe God had as much to do
with the making Of this nation as he
did the Jews. Our beginnings were
similar. Both sprang from handful
Of God-fearing, oppressed people, and
through struggles attained to great
ness. Each was raised up for a dis
tinct purpose. The Jews to reveal God
to the world, and our nation to teach
the world liberty.
Through the Jews God gave to the
world the Bible; through our Nation
He has given to the world the declara-
ton of Independence and the Consti-
tuition of the United States. BY the
Bible we learn how to be saved, by our
charters of liberty we learn how to
be free.
As the Jewish nation has given to
the world through the Bible, a knowl-
edge of God and His dealings with
men and with the nations, so the world
Through our free institutions has been
taught that the boon of self-govern-
ment is possible to all nations, and as
| result every nation on the globe has
flor its goal free government, or as Mr.
Lincoln expressed it "A government
of the people, for the people and by
1.-THE people," The revolutions of Eu-
rope, today, are the result of our ex-
ample, our teaching, our success
Those nations are in their A B C's
Some of them have crude notions Of
|liberty, but liberty is their aim or OBJ
ject They are feeling their way like
| a man in the dark, but all are search
ing for the same object and that is lib
erty, freedom, self-determiantion. Goo
has taught us through the Jews how
to celebrate nations birth. When
God had made the decree that the
Jews should be released from Egypt
| ian bondage and become a great ma
ton through which the whole worlt
should be blessed, he gave explicit IN
structions how their liberation should
be celebrated and commanded tina
there should be an annual celebration
| It was to be a religious affair.
>, You will note that the directions h
gave were clearly intended to empha
size the fact that God raises up ma
lions and therefore they owe thei
very existence to Him. The passove
was to be memorial of their deliver
ance from Egyptian oppression. Whel
- the children should ask the meaning
of this memorial they should say: Ou
= fathers were slaves in Egypt and Go
delivered them from the oppression Q
Pharaoh and made Of you a nation
Mind you, God had done this, no
Moses. II God had not given thes
specific directions doubtless the
would have celebrated their nationa
birthday by pronouncing eulogies o
Moses and Aaron, caleb and Joshua
lust as we have always done at gu
celebrations. On these occasions W
have made slight use of the name
God and His part in making the ma
ition.
Gods wisdom Is manifest In tn
method he prescribed for the memoria
of the birth Of the Jewish nation. Ma
is prone to take all the honor for VIVA
is accomplished through him. He
a self-centered, vain creature an
needs all the checks possible to re
strain his vanity. He is prone to FOL
get God. He is slow to recognize tn
hand of God in the affairs Of men.
Our Fourth of July celebration
should be shot through with refer
ences to God and His dominion owe
world affairs. The Bible tells US, thu
the nation that forgets God shall pc
ish. The history of nations proves tn
to be true. The nation that fails to IN
I'D to the light 1t has shall pass ava
We have some heather nations th'
are old. China for, example, but tn'
have lived up to the light they hav
1.-The wicked shall be turned into he
and all the nations that forget God
That is the Bible statement. The Jev
lost their place among the nations
their failure to recognize and OBJ
God. They had more light than al
other nation, but failed to live up
II. Our nation is now in peril for tn
,.nArr nanaa Wa ara fnrpettinp Go