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the Republic so noble and renowned? 
Is it because your swords flashed so_val- 
iently in the sun? Is it because multi- 
tudes fell before your terrible fire? Is it 
because you soaked the soil of the south- 
ern states in human blood? God _for- 
bid! It is because you believe! in the 
righteousness of your cause and fought 
from the highest sense of a holy duty. 
The old patriotism says, ironclads and 
gunboats exalteth-a nation, territory ex- 
alteth a nation, diplomatic prestige ex- 
alteth a nation, commercial supremacy 
exalteth a nation, wealth and resources 
and material display to compel the 
world’s attention exalteth a nation, but 
God’s word says “‘ righteousness exalteth 
anation.’’ ‘This is the .shibboleth, the 
war cry of the new patriotism, righteous- 
ness! 
For centuries a few in every nation 
have been inspired by this patriotism and 
have suffered and died toestablish a high- 
er social and political ideal. “The new 
patriotism is beginning to burn in more 
breasts than ever before in the world’s 
history, and its influence and power 
erows. ‘The old flag shall yet lead the 
hosts of the new patriotism, its sacred 
folds cleansed in the vicarious blood of 
the noble men and women who have 
fought for this, who never marched to 
the beat of the drum. 
And women are leading in this con- 
flict inspired by the new patriotism. 
They outnumber the men seven to one. 
They are fighting for nation, for home, 
for humanity in the ranks of the church. 
For forty years you men have thought 
you were saving the country over there 
in the Town hall and all-the time the 
country was going to the devil. But 
women, a handful with a few faithful 
men, were saving the country in the work 
of the church, and if the integrity and 
glory of the nation is ever established and 
endures it will be through the church and 
through nothing else. 
But where were you men? [am not 
preaching tothe Allen Post now, but to 
all the men here this morning. Where 
were you men on Sunday morning when 
women were fighting for righteousness? 
Several have come to me during the 
past week asking: ‘‘ Well, are you all 
ready for Sunday? Have you got it all 
fixedup nice? There will be men to 
church next Sunday morning who go _ to 
church only once a year, men who nev- 
er heard you preach.’’ I want to say 
in all sincerity, I don’t care whether you 
ever hear me preach, but I d care that 
you should ‘* come up to the help of the 
Lord against the mighty ’’ and ally your- 
selves to the cause of righteousness. 
Do you men think you can send your 
old grey haired mothers, your devoted 
wives, and your daughters out against 
the black flag of hell and then at last go 
into eternal glory under the folds of her 
mighty triumph? I tell you, no! Wake 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
up, men! If you don’t there will be 
seven women crowned in Heaven to one 
man! 
I have read of wars to the death in 
which the flower of the nation perished 
first. Then the professional class, the 
artists and students continued to fight and 
they too perished. Then the old men 
and the boys jumped into the bloody 
breech only to share the same fate. At 
last the women tore the weapons from 
the stiffening fingers of the men and 
fought the final battles. And there ts a 
moral conflict going on today in valient 
and boasted America, for the moral in- 
teprity of the nation in which women 
must bear the brunt of the battle not be- 
cause the men are slain but because the 
men are the stragglers in the rear. And 
as she in her weakness, with white face 
and praying lips towards heaven, stands 
bravely before the entrenched evils and 
corruptions of every community we 
sometimes mock her pathetic struggle; 
and God alone knows how deep is the 
thrust she carries in the white shield of 
her sacred breast. 
Men, buckle onthe armor of righteous- 
ness for God and nation! Some of the 
*“Grand Army of the Republic ’’ are 
enlisted in the Grander Army of Right- 
eousness and they were never so honor- 
able or heroic as they are now. 
We are not afraid. Victories are being 
won for God and humanity, but the real 
fighting has only just begun. You fought 
bravely to preserve your country; fight as 
bravely to preserve its manhood. It has 
long been thought that a nation’s hope was 
in her men of martial strength, but we are 
beginning to find out that a nation’s hope 
is her men of moralstrength. We have 
thought her destiny was with those whose 
feet keep time to the beat of the drum, 
but we are beginning to find out that a na- 
tion’s destiny is with those whose hearts 
keep time to the beat of the heart of the 
Eternal. 
Our last conflict struck this note of 
the New Patriotism again, louder, grand- 
er than before for the Old Flag this time 
had but one name ‘‘Humanity.”’ 
Henceforth let us rally only in defense 
of the weak, the fallen in body and soul, 
whether to fling the folds of the flag over 
a suffering sister nation or people or to 
rally in defense of character debased and 
manhood defaced. 
The wreath that you lay on the graves of 
the soldiers of the Spanish-American war 
on Memorial Day isa floral link in the 
growing chain that shall at last unite the 
righteous throughout the earth, the 
Lord’s hosts terrible in battle. It is a 
link made up of fragile flowers twined in 
the love of a united people, north and 
south, east and west, for they fought as 
one man and they were baptised with 
the spirit of the new patriotism and in- 
spired by the wrath of righteousness. A 
child’s fingers could tear the fragile link 
21 
apart, but something, God knows, is 
twined in with the flowers, so true, so 
strong, so divine, that no power on earth 
or in hell can pull it apart. And when 
this new patriotism for right and right- 
eousness at last shall burn in the hearts 
of all Americans it will be like the bleak 
fields of winter waking up until our na- 
tional life shall be as full of divine bene- 
diction as the fields this morning. 
Memorial Sunday at Manchester. 
Union memorial services were held at 
the Congregational church, Manchester, 
last Sunday morning. Members of 
Post 67, G. A.R., were present, march- 
ing from their headquarters under escort 
of Col. H. P. Woodbury camp, 149, S. 
of V. Allen Relief Corps also attended 
in a body. 
The sermon was by Rev. L. H. 
Ruge, pastor, whose subject was ** Pat- 
riotism: The Old and the New.’”’ 
His sermon will be found on another 
page. Rev. E. Hersey Brewster as- 
sisted at the services. “The church was 
tastily decorated for the occasion with 
flowers, and the American flag was 
draped over the pulpit. 
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