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very loftiest words, implying the loftiest ideas, have 

 often been used as cloaks for the commission of 

 dreadful deeds of iniquity. No more hideous 

 crimes have ever been committed by men than those 

 that have been committed in the name of liberty, 

 of order, of brotherhood, of religion. People have 

 butchered one another under circumstances of dread- 

 ful atrocity, claiming all the time to be serving the 

 object of the brotherhood of man or of the father- 

 hood of God. We must in our lives, in our efforts, 

 endeavor to further the cause of brotherhood in 

 the human family ; and we must do it in such a way 

 that the men anxious to find subject for complaint 

 or derision in the churches of the United States, in 

 our church, may not be able to find it by pointing 

 out any contrast between our professions and our 

 lives. 



This church is consecrated to-day to duty and 

 to service, to the worship of the Creator, and to 

 an earnest effort on our part so to shape our lives 

 among ourselves and in relation to the outside world 

 that we may feel that we have done our part in 

 bringing a little nearer the day when there shall 

 be on this earth a genuine brotherhood of man. 



AT THE SAENGERFEST, BALTIMORE, MD., 

 JUNE 15, 1903 



My Fellow-Citizens: 



Let me in the first place congratulate the city 

 of Baltimore upon what she has done and upon the 

 way she has done it; and then let me welcome the 

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