The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-04
DR. HENDRIX HENDRIX TALKS TALKS
 ON PATRIOTISM

Before large congregation at Highlands Methodist church yester- day morning, pr. ". R. Hendrix, the pastor. preached forceful and in- teresting sermon, taking as his theme. Patriotism" in honor of the celebration of the one hundred and forty-fifth anniversary of the Deeia- ration of Independence, today.
 Dr. Hendrix said in part:
 Tomorrow our people will be en- gagged in celebrating the one hundred and forty fifth anniversary of our National birthday. Because the emergence of our nation was so em- phatically the resultant of religious forces, it becomes highly proper to make this the subject of our devout meditation on this holy Sabbath morning.
 "The men who fashioned the be- ginnings of our national policies, were 'God-conquered mem deeply conscious of His sovereign authority over human affairs. and their own desire and purpose to obey Him iIn- plicitly in their solemn undertaking to establish for themselves and their children a separate government. Inis separate national existence they de- cIared they were entitled to by the laws of nature and of natures God.
 Tt is an eminentiy fitting thing that occasionally We should concen- trate our attention upon the tuhoa' mental principles of free govern
 e. F. II. and wrought them into the lire or the infant Republic to which they dedicated their fortunes, their honor and their lives.
 ..In the first place it was gov ernment founded on moral prlnci- ples. All domestic and foreign QueS- tions that might arise were to pc ad- indicated through the moral sense. securing justice to all partles' all" special favors to none.
 .We. as individuals, could not pc true citizens of our country II we claimed the right to do an ln9ustice to some one in the interest or othe, .. IIa ia traitor and a heretic who holds that we must sometimes uo evil that good may come. Righteous ends can never be realiIeu, righteous means.
 After a century and half, more than 1oo.00o,000 inhabitants have come to claim citizenship in this new republic. Wealth has never had sucn an opportunity in all the ages as IL has found here. Labor has come out of the chrysalis, where it suffered as another commodity to be bought and sold. and the laborer has estap- lished firmly his state as human being endowed with human rights. Human rights have been so success fully guaranteed that neither capital nor labor need much special or class legislation.
 Abroad, the governments of the world are undergoing radical altera- tions, and the essential principles Of Americanism are taking a ruling place in many of the new govern ments. When we see what others think of national ideals; when we See the results among our own peo- pie, we are constrained to saturate our minds again with those doctrines which dominated the founders of our national institutions.
 "Our own people must be won to greater measures of effort at self improvement and self-control; we must think our way into those great creative truths upon which our civil ization is based We must make room in our hearts for those master pas sions for truth and freedom which made our fathers triumphant over every opposing foe.''