Show STUDENT LIFE 186 would spring1 up all over your land There would be no end to the atrocities of mob violence and labor strikes Destroy your navies and pirate robbers will invest the earth lurk in the recesses of every harbor and drive your defenceless commerce from the seas But there are stronger reasons than even these why the Anglo Saxon should not d From the destroy his beginning civilization and Christianity have advanced only under the protection of the sword Successively through the ages Christ’s Doctrine has gone to the homes of the barbarians only after the army or its influence has gone first It safe-guar- took centuries of bloodshed for man to be allowed to worship his Creator according to the dictates of his conscience The largest portion of the greatest benefits and principles of our democratic institutions have been wrenched from tyranny by the strife and struggle of the sword When the old English Barons forced King John to concede the Great Magna Charta it was only because they held the power to crush that king Our own declaration of Independence was won by the spending of patriot blood for eight years We saw the passing of human slavery only after a four years’ civil war Spain drew her tyranneous hand from the throat of the liberty loving and suffering people of America only because the sword appeared in defense of those people Finally after centuries of struggling the Anglo Saxon holds the scepter of the highest forms of civilization and advances full high the most brilliant light of the Gospel of Christ While he thus stands in commission of this sacred trust he is surmounted forces and by that would tear it powers down Shall he throw down the fortress that guards this trust ? Let him who loves his liberty and his God who is not a coward and who seeks not to avoid the responsibilities of his generation answer this question |