New Britain herald., 1922-05-29
Rev. j. Leo Sullivan Delivers
Patriotic Address Before
G. A. r. and Other War
Veterans-Hits at X. X.
X.

Members of the Grand Army, vet.
Grams OF the Spanish American and
World War and their affiliated or.
ganizations, as well as other inter-
ested citizens. gathered at st, Joseph IS
church last evening at the annual
Memorial exercises. Rev. j. REQ
Sullivan was the speaker and in pay
Ing tribute to the defenders OF this
nation said, discussing respect for
authority, The Panacea for the Ills
Of Our Age"
Memorable Days.
Venerable men of the Grand
Army, you have come down to us from
former generation. Heaven has
oounteously heightened out your lives
that you might see these memora Bile
days. And memorable days they are
We live in Days fraught with ire
nendous possibilities and unheard
happenings.
THE mighty war that shook the
Christian world like an earthquake,
carrying down in its mad career, the
proud and ancient thrones of Europe.
ruins Of the Titanic catastrophe
phoenix-like, the nations of the old
world are rising up with that inn
mortal, undying spirit which the
Creator endows people. as well as
individuals, Poland, Ireland. Egypt,
czecho Slovakia are again resuming
their places among the nations of the
world.
The autocracies OF Germany, Aus
nia, Russia and Turkey having fallen
the governments of these countries
ire functioning under more demo-
cratic regime, The far-7ung British
empire, held together for centuries.
with a circle of forts and bavonets, is
slowly but surely disintegrating as
democracy marching at the head of
world events beckons the nations to
tall in line
Disarmament Conference
only a short time ago Washing
ten welcomed the ambassadors of the
great powers in that historic gather
ing, the disarmament conference, to
bring about lasting peace amongst
the nations. Today the great powers
still bent toward the mighty quest of
reconstructing war-worn and war
torn world and are trying to stabilize
Its economic and industrial life, that
nations may trod the path to normal
cy And yet the process is alarm
lngly slow; the days of world con-
valescence are dragging along with
discouraging pace. The worlds spe-
cialists at Genoa. Washington and
Versailles are at sea, in their efforts to
diagnose the disease and prescribe
the proper remedies for a world sick
unto death
"On every side the spectre of rest
lessness is raising its hideous head ;
the spirit of INSTRUMENTATION; disre-
spect for lawfully constituted author
ty; contempt for Gods ten command
ments; the young and the old vyng
with one another in an orgy of crime
until we wonder if that dreadful dis
Ease which slew Russia, has not broken
through its barriers and run riot
through the Christian world where is
that respect for law and order for
the voice of authority which is ever
characteristic of Christian nations?
Effect OF War.
perhaps the most interesting
phenomenon of the war days was the
remarkable degree to which the minds
and hearts and conscience of the peo-
pie were attuned, when the COM
mands of the emperors and kings and
presidents and prime ministers rang
out above the dint of the battle forts.
Possibly the obedience to the COM
mands of those in authority was
stretched to such a tension that the
breaking point was soon reached and
poor human nature swung back the
opposite extreme suffice to say we
have seen the strange paradox of a
war-world following its leaders with
an almost fanatical obedience, while
today respect for authority, self-re-
straint, discipline is relegated prac-
tically to the region Of the unknown
and unknoWable.
IF our age is afflicted with the
fever of restlessness, il murder and
suicide, if lust and race suicide, if di
vorce and low places, If dishonesty in
high and low places is rampant, it is
because men and women have thrown
overheard in their tempestuous voy-
age through this vale of tears the
compass of Christianity; it is because
they have steadfastly ignored the ten
great rights which the Creator has
set up to warn US of the rocks and
shoals upon which so many poor
humans have suffered eternal ship
wreck. We decry the bolshevistic
tendencies of Russia, or the anarchis-
tic and socialistic propensities of other
sections of Europe.
Essentials of Government
I'VE hold that politically govern
ment Is a nonstrosity which has no
head to direct, no laws to guide. no
powers and sanctions to protect it's
subjects in their unaienable rights to
life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
'sAnd yet in the higher and far
more important domain of religion
which trains men for their eternal
citizenship in the kingdom of God,
and by virtue of the same training
makes them the ideal citizens of the
state, many adopt the attitude of boil
shevists, anarchists and rationalists;
at the same time trying to convince
themselves that this is the only course
open to the free, independent, intelli-
gent, progressive, dignifed citizen of
the goth century.
LAS American citizens, we are not
of government and shout loudly that
q monarchial communistic state is
preferable to ours! Before the sover-