Show Five Tive ve G Gospels of Americanism Which All of Us Should Know I Albert J. J Beveridge statesman and historian once wrote People ask me What is Americanism Americanism Ameri Amen I say Read its five gospels gospels gospels gos gos- the briefest gospels ever penned These are the five gospels The Mayflower Compact the Declaration Declaration Declaration Declara Declara- tion of Independence the Constitution Constitution tion lion of the United States the farewell farewell fare fare- well address of George Washington and Lincoln's second inaugural You can read them all every everyone one of them in less than hall half an hour and any man or woman or any boy boyar or girl who will read them understandingly understandingly un un- will have the foundation tion the climax the beginning and the end the heart the limbs and the brain of true Americanism And I lik like to feel that all these people who are living here here for for our country is the only thing after all all- that every time they think of anything anything anything any any- thing public every time they think of this nation for all aU of them are glad to go out and die if need I be that be-that that in that thought there sound the strains of the fife and drum of Bunker Hill that in their victory glorious and beautiful never shall shall fail the I heroism of Valley Forge and all that is sacred all aU that is I I I dear to our hearts through our traditions tra- tra traI I of the great men and noble women who have lived and sacrificed and died for this republic an and its flag shall shaH still continue In our hearts and In our brains iI I I i 1 i. i i c |