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Show Loyalty Is First Duty of Every Citizen of United States Today ! By JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS n1 ;V A , J 'I In the present emergency it behooves every American Amer-ican citizen to do his duty and to uphold the hands of the president and the legislative department in the solemn obligations that confront us. The primary duty of a citizen is loyalty to country. coun-try. This loyalty is manifested more by acts than by words ; by solemn service rather than by empty declamation. dec-lamation. It is exhibited by an absolute and unreserved unre-served obedience to his country's call. Both houses of congress, with the executive, are charged and sworn to frame those laws that are demanded by the present crisis. Whatever, therefore, congress may decide should be unequivocally complied with by every patriotic citizen. The members of both houses of congress are the instruments of God in guid-ing guid-ing us in our civic duties. It behooves all of us, therefore, to pray that the Lord of Hosts may inspire our national legislature and executive to frame such laws in the present crisis as will redound to the glory of our country, to righteousness of conduct, and to the future permanent peace j of the nations of the world. |