Show PATRIOTIC TALK BY REV CARVER i iThe I iI The patriotic In the tho FIrst Presbyterian church were typical of religious nail norl patriotic trend trond of citi cill The church was as with large flags and a profusIon o of blue billo nIl and l white hells bells and roses roseR post Relief Reller corps and ond Lincoln cIrcle well ell represented ted The praise In which Miss Mrs C H Stevens and ill Mr 1 Sunders Saunders took lending parts was of ofa a high standard Rc Rev Carver said In part I It was some somo one hundred anti and t en years CaIS ago that the struggle for forn forIt n It ne now nation of national Once enco was really inaugurated in our land an l and which by declaration and bloodshed vas a little Inter com completed c im leaving our young voting state like a alin lin tiny child facing a future of vapidly augmenting power and usefulness for I In all but Ideals It was small Indeed t From Its few four million souls Bouls It has hils grown to about nInety millions today from the boundary of the tho MIssissippi It h has gradually extended to the Pa Pacific Isles In the west and Porto Rico I DO now marks marIes the eastern harder border What was then the borne of the hunter and trapper or wandering IndIan If l no now I Ithe 4 the teem teeming In borne bome of vast farming In I cities have hao arisen as by magic Mountain ranges thou thon deemed are now known to he be the tho homo hottie of most all of the valued ores are changed to orchards and arid valleys s Into InLo visions of plenty Then there here was lIttle trade hut but to toda today I da day the product o of mine and forge forst forest and Held is valued at I a year Jear and is eagerly sought Bought for In all the markets o of the world the hankers of Amsterdam re rc fuse to lend three hundred dollars on the best securities one of our colo cob nIts could offer hut sInce Alexander Hamilton created a financIal policy polley our cre credIt lt has grown with oti wealth and today the controller of the cur currency rency says The Tue people of these United States are arc the tho rIchest In the world Then fleet eft her men mer oi 01 marine was unknown this too loo has hns changed But why this progress and great our inventions manufactures and produce is 5 IL that wo mn may haughtily swagger and boast and bras brag about all this great riches and power That as many an Amer AmerIcan Amerlean lean Ican does doe w we may ho be guilty of vulgar gun gar and ostentatious display or of wealth No the God of na lions ions has hns some other purpose In view Do wo we not believe and does docs not our best moments and truly great men and conquests show that hat It is that we ma may ameliorate the needy conditions of toil and pain to ChrIs in all thal great word means to losen ORen the bonds of captIvity and point the tho souls of men to lo the tho eternal and abidIng orIs Many a nation naHon has trIfled with pow power powel er el and light The best nations of the tho past sought to lo make their own ad advantages vantages rebound to theIr own ease and aul vanity hut but In so doing loIn they smothered their true trite life In their own vanity The glory glor of Greece tIm tho ma jesty esty j of Rome the sluggish power or of II Egypt the splendor o of Spain the storIed s wonders tile tie city of the far east cast In turn alike the worlds great grent leader soon became but storied ruins when was extolled and service forgotten Tell ma may we 0 make mako the poem our prayer God of Our fathers known of old l Lord rd of our battle line Beneath whose awful hand hanl we hold Dominion over oer palm and pine Lord God o of Hosts be with us vet el Lest we forget lest we forset If IC drunk with sIght or of power we loose Wild tongues that have hao not thee In Inae awe ae Such as the GentIles use 01 lessor creeds without the la laLord law Lord God of hosts be wIth us yet yel Lost we forget lest we I From heathen heart that puts his trust trustIn In reeking tube and Iron shard All valiant lust dusl that builds on dust And guarding calls on thee to lo guard Suard From frantIc boast and anel foolIsh word Thy mercy on thy people Lord There was a period in our national me life when whon we needed the tho soldier and men of unsurpassed bravery and skill were glen given There Thele was a latter time when because of great development and commercIal progress the need was for men who could produce and compete In the markets of the world we are in that period as a na nation tion Is shown by the large rewards s whIch are glen given to those ot of industrial leadership And yet there thore Is a change chango In th the method The Tho great enterprises are not indivIdual nor are arc they ther financed by individual men The They are conducted b ly Community of capItal and the savings o of the people The small savings In the tho Insurance and saving funds are arc turned Into great en Now ow this makes an im need for men of character In business life for the lives of o so man many savings arc handled as one Mon or of Integrity men nien whom we can ean trust not only with their own hut the money moner ata aro needed for the great enterprises of today ate ao flung over oer such great groat reaches that Inspection Is Impossible The great call cali toda today then Js Is for the stump sLump or of honest that de defies ies an any corruptIon or taint of dishonesty Are Arc wo meeting thIs demand I ask ak vou ou If lie 01 old 1 and trite standard o of the moral law Is not to lo bend In popular opinion to the thc standard o of Th The great demand is for divi The religion of dohl what pa pays H is 18 mono common than doing what Is right The Tho man who h by sharp cor corners ners and questionable methods can produce Is the one who to lo day receives fi great praise lie He Is the tho great financIer Now ow here bere Is 18 a lem which the mother and anel home life Ideals which Ii If she fosters can do nuch to solve Let our home borne Ideals be for character than for wealth and let our AmerIcan women tike luke no standard o of luxury and riches n as theil aim Cot 01 II If tho women o of our land place lb h praise upon noble purposes high Ideals true and honest character In short upon pure man hood In all that It means menns In tho most lofty sense then they will do much gIving to lo tho thio a type of oC citizenship worth of the highest trust hut but If the they turn towards foolIsh and lavish expenditure of wealth and it If It it in not the man finn hilt butt that which h he can of post lion ion null and ready money that lint WE forth their then they tho must ns al sume tho r for creating a superficial and lowering standard of wo worth rt h The founders of OUr real that thal the lito hand o of Go God was vas In in their work the delegates from the colon colonies were gath led to Lo frame framo tim constitution Franklin stood lip up In con gross and recalled to Lo the members minds the tho spirit of o prayer which was pr throughout the land during tho soven Boven years war nar HI He said RaId Tue Tho longer J I live the more proofs I see o of this Coil Goil governs In the affairs o of men and If Ifa Ifa a sparrow cannot fa fall II to lo the without his notice Is it that an can an rise wIthout his aid We have been ceu assured In the sacred writings that except the Lord build the house the they labor In vaIn who bo j build It I firmly believe thIs and I nIso that without t his concur concurring ring aid we shall succeed in this po I building no better than the I builders or of Babel our will the tho confounded and ourselves become a reproach and a rd down to future That was the I spirit of oC the colonists that was the sentiment of the signers or of the tho Declaration of Independence that I was the thought or of the o of our constitutIon and that must bo be our I hope and stay If we continue in the I great grent the they so grandly I rated The standard of life which the lie lieI I BIble and God proclaims the I o of reverence which and I steadIed our fathers must niale fot fOl the lIfting of IndivIdual worth above i It money value t In this and amI spirit cannot wo we nil all breathe the tho pra prayer cr contained In our closing hymn God bless our native land Firm may OlaV stand Through storm and night When hen the wild Ild rn rave YO Ruler o of wind and Do thou our country save savo Dr By th thy great For lieu hel our prayers shall hall rise To God above the skies On him wo se walt waIt Thou who are ever nigh Guarding with watchful eye eyo To thee aloud wo we er cry God save the state stat Roosevelt said Better bo bc faithful than famous FactS Fac the facts as YOU find them strive steadIly for the I best If we do truly face the call for forthe forthe the highest typo of citizenship We will find that In being faithful we 0 will wIn fame that will ill abide |