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Show PATRIOTISM IS LAUDED IfTPULPITS Pastors of City Deliver Ser-. Ser-. mons Appropriate to Natal Day. SHORT SAYS NATION'S ' LEADERS RJELIGIOUS Foote ThinKs Independence Day of WorKing Han . Still In Future.- Pastort of the Frotaataint churches of Salt Lako preached Nrnuni jmUc-day jmUc-day bearing on the Fourth of July. 4e-cordlng 4e-cordlng to their riewt the .great nUio-al nUio-al holiday sbooid bo ctiebntod Bioro np-proprUtoly np-proprUtoly by injecting something of n religious spirit into the exercises attending at-tending the day's festivities. JU1 made pleaifor a ' ' aaf efsjuie " ' Fourth. Iiatnigslons of national questions of im-portsuico im-portsuico entered into some of the discourses dis-courses heard at the various churches. At the First Methodist Episcopal church the Bev, Francis Burgette Short presrhed a sermon of patriotism on the subject,' "National Exaltation. " lie dwelt upon the greatness of America and on the extent of its domain, advising advis-ing bia congregation) that the element of liberty and freedom must be always is mind if this nation is to come to itfl full use fnl news and glorv. ' highteoufiness is the fundamental and dominating note in our national life today," said Dr. Short. 4 4 Those that rule over ua in high po aitiona and those that interpret ottr laws are men that revere God, and therefore that seek that righteousness ehalJ obtain. This nation would not tolerate an irreligious ruler, nor would it tolerate an act thst seemed to disregard dis-regard out- acknowledgment of God. Christianity is not, nor would it become oppressive, but it serves notice to all nations and to all peoples that it believes be-lieves in tbe ten commandments and tbe sermon on the mount, and Jt hat by the tacbings of these two document a ber eonrae is being directed, her character char-acter ia being formed and her security is being secured." President Taft and William Jennings Bryan were referred to as among the righteous ritieen of this country who carry their ideas into public life, wtmericft Not So Free. Tbe Rev. Orer Alvin Foote- of the Westminster Presbyterian 'church confined con-fined his remarks In his Sunday morning sermon to a dlfK-ussInn of the tyranny of unjust business combinations as they op-poae op-poae and oppress labor. He divided buei-neaa buei-neaa Into two classes and Scored heavilv the business combines that throttle and hinder competition and stifle the rights of labor. He took tbe atand that the Fourth of July tf celebrated In this day with little thought of Its true significance. He said; "There ar two reaaons for thla. but tha one which I wish particularly to discuss dis-cuss is that we ate gradually waking up to the fact that w are not so free aa we once thought we were. Hear old mother England no longer tyrsnntsea ovar us, but another tyrant haa moved Into the houae of liberty which our forefathers fore-fathers built at so great a cost. That tyrant, I might aa well tell you at once, has for Its miniatera and e ecu t loners the men who call themselves 'big business' men. And now let no man or woman go out of this church and say that J would destroy business, for there la sea-wide difference, my friends, between business, which is an honorable and uee-ful uee-ful vocation, and the tyranny of the money power. Keep tha dlaUnctlon In mind. "This bus! neas y ra n t oppresses t he worklngman by depriving him of a just wage for hla labor, and by denying him tha self-respecting and Independent place In society to which every man who Is a man la entitled. Some will say that the laboring man restricts hie own liberty by hla policy of the strike and closed shop, but the worklngman will tell you that this restriction of liberty, like the restrictions which are placed on men In tlmea of martial law, are for a good purpose, or to obtain tha larger freedom for which they are contending. In the last analyala. too, these restrictions msy all b laid at the door of capital. WDtt It Tm Yitiiottsm?- Th Rv. J. Challon Smith, orrupytnc t h pul ptt of t h Fl rtt t t'onrrsmt (ona 1 church In th abano- of th Rev. Klmer I. oahn, took for hla aubjert "H.yhr patrlotlam." In aupport of thla aubjwt he rlalntaMl the nation of the earth are cornlnn to a htsher conception of patriot pa-triot lam and devotion and that thla la not ao much a national aentlment aa It la a humanity -td aentlment apreadinn out, taJctnr In human kind. Love of country muat mean tov of humanity to have the true rlnc of pattioilara, according; to tha apeak er. Referring- to th approachina; national haltday. the Rv. Ward Winter Ree. paator of Ht. Paul'a Kplaropnl church, held that alf aAcrlrlclna; patiiottam la the only true patiiotiam. lie drew hla aib)ect from a paaaafre of acripture taken from chronicle In which the etorr of tlia thre at-iMlera of Kirur Davtd who braved the line of the enemy to aecure a tup of water for their king. Patriot la Unselfish. Th men," aaid th Rev. Mr. Reeae, "dared for a aentlmfnt In which aelftah-neaa aelftah-neaa playd no part. Any man who alvea up hla horn and ftrhta for hta country la dolnc Uod'a purpoae. He ia working, not fdr aelf. but for hla neta-hbora. "The hlatory of our country a how a that the men who did the flahtlna were from the middle claaa. with lve of home and country neareat their hearta. Tha aria-tocracv aria-tocracv In the revolutionary time wera tha Tories, ajenerally apeakinc, whw- laved at home to it row wealthy over the mlafortunea of their country- "It la a noteworthy fact that th riae of the treat famlllee of that period waa not from th a"ldlerly claaa, but fmm the rlaea of atay at homea. The names of Franklin. Ruah. Morria and Rlttenhouae almoat ar forgotten, while the namea of Rtddlea. Wlatara. I-Texela and adwallad-era. adwallad-era. the arlatccrattc claaa still live and are known far and wide. The (.rat named i were the patriot a. the taet named those t who did little- Avhttna In the rauae of liberty lib-erty and who dim-f barn a Ins oa the auf - I ferina country in the name of bust neas." I |