Milford chronicle., 1938-04-15

in Lewes, and now this new one
here, successor to two smaller ones
that have previously existed and
done splendid work. None of them
have been built with public money
but wholly. unless l am mistaken,
by gifts of private funds, for the
most part, from many individuals.
So l come back again to a re-state-
ment of the view that the finest
thing about the hospital is some
thing that neither you nor l can see.
The hospital itself we see, but the
spirit that inspired its conception
and completion is invisible. 1t abides
in the hearts and the souls Of the
men and women who made the hos
pital possible.
Taxation is about the most I'M
popular thing known to the human
race. Taxation, without having some
thing to say about it. is one of the
things for which our fOrefathers
fought the Revolutionary War. When
the people of a community voluntar-
lily and freely tax themselves, not
for their own benefit alone, but for
the general benefit of humanity in
the community and for the unborn
generations to come after them, they
but prove anew the spiritual pro-
gress Of the human race.
1T has been said that man is a
being in whom three elements are
joined-body, mind, and spirit. No
one of these may be subtraeted from
the whole. Nothing that attempts
this division can be called human
ism
The philosophy Of Kark Marx,
upon which the new societies of a
large part of continental Europe
have been recently established, shat
ters the unity and universally Of
human nature by injecting the
'cIass-conscious point of view, by
arraying certain supposed classes OF
human beings against certain other
supposed classes. There is no such
thing as class truth or class false
hood. Truth and falsehood are the
same for all mankind; they know no
classes.
"The modern totalitarian states of
Europe control and organize the
whole of human life-not merely its
political and economic phases but
also the spiritual and intellectual
life of the people. They try to sub
iect the entire human personality to
the state itself. to exercise author
Ity over the souls of men. They de-
mand that their subjects confess the
particular world-philOsophy which
he state recognizes as the only true
Dne. Hence they deny freedom of
and come into conflict
with Christian beliefs and the be-
iefs of every other religion except
he one they set up as a part of the
state itself. !
I'VE in this country, since the
of Independence and the
adoption of our Constitution, have
that man has a value above
he state, above the nation, above
,oicety, that only God Himself is
higher than man. Therefore, the so
,ial question that disturbs our
country today is also a spiritual
question and men Of the spiritual
ife cannot avoid taking sides in the
,attle. For them only one choice is
The spiritually-minded of
,ur day must fight on the side of
liberty and justice and mercy. not
N the side of RECOMMENDATION and
do you suppose that in a totali-
arian state, a government Of COM
,letely centralized authority that
lad been in existence for any length ,
Il time, you could have achieved the :
piritual victory this hospital repre- /;
ents? Certainly not. Above the more ,
.bundant life, whatever that might ,
'e, the state had provided for you, (
Ou would not have had the oppOr-
unity by thrift to save and acquire
unds above your needs to contri-
ute to the building of this hospital. !
-ou might have had hospital. The /
tate might have built il for you. but l
on would have gained no spiritual {
ictory by that.
III you are content TO be mere {
egetables, cabbages. carrots, or [
l have no message for
on, but if you desire that you and
our children shall continue to be I
bic to gain spiritual victories, then (
say to you: look to the preseTya-
on of your liberty. :
"Mussolin says, We have tramp |
on the putrescent corpse Of the {
oddess of Liberty and we shall do I
} again
"The Declaration of Independence I
sserts as self-evident three propo-
tions: ~ that there are natural {
ghts, (2) that In the enjoyment of !
lese rights all men are equal, and {
D that the three fundamental 4
ghts are life. liberty, and the pur- 9
Iit of happiness. 7
What does liberty mean in our
resent society? 9
"a complete answer to this ques- '
on is perhaps beyond the speak
Is ability and certainly beyond the n
respective Of this occasion. h
Certainly physical liberty Is the {