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Show : CHAPLAIN PRAYS FOR A UNITED AMERICA ANXAPOLIS. Md., March 25 When the 183 members of the first class of midshipmen at the naval academy as sembled for their last chapel service today preparatory to graduation next Thursdav, Thaplain Sidnev Evans brayed that war might be averted, but - I that "if war comes, God may make us , i united country, defend us from our t i nemles and preserve our rights and i liberties." In the baccalaureate sermon to the midshipmen, Chaplain Fvans said. , Patriotism and religion can be scg-'ted scg-'ted only in theory. Patriotism la religion in term of country. True patriotism pa-triotism is not the noisy, empty thing which expresses itself in cheering the riag as it passes, while inner character belles the words they express. The lives of such have little in them of the jai rifice and fidelity of the fathers and founders of the republic. Hypocrisy in patriotism passes current more readily ihan does hypocrisv in religion be- "Jf cause more common and less noticed. nn |