May 11,1917. 
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MANCHESTER Baptist CHURCH FLINGS 
Onup GLORY TO THE BREEZES ON 
SuNDAY AFTERNOON. 
Over 200 people attended the pat- 
riotic vesper service in the auditor- 
ium of the Manchester Baptist church 
last Sunday afternoon. After a pro- 
gram of music by the Trinity Girls 
guartet of Gloucester, George Blanch- 
ard, tenor, of Gloucester, Archibald 
Cool, bass, of Manchester and George 
Allyn Brown, organist, of Gloucester, 
the flag was drawn across the front 
of the organ loft and unfurled while 
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the audience sang “Star Spangled 
Banner.” All gave the flag salute. 
The address in connection with the 
flag raising was given by Rev. A. G. 
Warner, who spoke on “The Sacred 
Meaning of Our Flag.” 
“The flag is not as a rule displayed 
in the interior of a church,” said Mr. 
Warner; “except as an occasional 
decoration on account of its beauty. 
It is commonly associated ‘with a 
regiment of soldiers, with the mast- 
head of a warship, or with a flag pole 
on a public building, as a military or 
national symbol, a reminder of 
loyalty. But in such a time as this, 
the flag of our nation has come to 
have a new and sacred meaning. 
“We need to remember that the 
flag is not designed to attract boys 
and young men by the glamour of 
army life and adventure. It is not 
a symbol of glory or national pride, 
though it is lauded as ‘Old Glory,’ but 
only as a symbol of our independence 
as a nation. 
“It is not even a symbol of war, 
but of peace and prosperity; it is not 
a symbol of conquest, or mere power 
and dominion. It never floated in ihe 
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van of ‘a conquering and oppressive 
host; it is not a symbol of vengenance, 
but of deliverance; not flaunting the 
sinister effigy of a two-headed mon- 
strosity, but displaying the field of a 
starry sky and the colors of a brilliant 
sunrise. 
“Tt is not the symbol of selfish 
greed, but of equal opportunity for 
all. In the war for the preservation 
of the union, the Stars and Stripes 
symbolized the union of this whole 
country in opposition to secession, 
and freedom for people of every race 
and color in opposition to the exten- 
sion of negro slavery. The flag was 
the symbol of a sacred cause. It was 
the starry symbol of hope and peace. 
“Today we unfurl it in the hotse 
of God, there to abide as a symbol of 
Christian civilization. Its true signi- 
ficance for us is its sign of our com- 
plete identification with the cause for 
freedom for mankind and with the 
highest and holiest ideals of humanity. 
Wherever it floats let it bear to the 
nations the message of a new inter- 
national law of righteousness, honor, 
love and peace; the evangel of demo- 
cracy in Opposition to autocracy, of 
government by the people, in place of 
the rule of castes and dynasties. 
Never did the flag of our country 
mean so much as it it does today. 
Never did its beauty so appeal to 
every impulse of unselfish devotion to 
the universal kingdom of love. 
““Wisdom of age and strength of 
youth 
Gird we now for defense of truth. 
The stricken lands and the smitten 
seas 
Challenge our pleasure, our gain, our 
ease. 
If justice and freedom be 
thrown, 
How dare we call this flag our own? 
In the light of its glory let us pray 
Lord how may we serve that flag 
today.” 
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