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Show Jacob Trapp advancing spiritual force in the world. We share their faith, rooted, as was democracy, in the finest heritage of [udaeo Christian morality and in the Greek and Renaissance ideal of the universal under the man, gUiding who cultivated his powers to the utmost control of reason. And we revere the of those illustrious men, and courageous soldiers of life, who won for heroism those unknown us our birthright of freedom. Though for all we cannot look. back upon them as having once we can look to them for counsel, the battle, won courage, and were inspiration. We can be stronger because they strong. Would we enjoy the freedom we enjoy today had it not been for them? struggled, to gain or to regain what they won for us in terms our service? Would not a Would we struggle, that freedom? Do of our character, they justify growth, as we our tenth of their courage, and a tithe of their devotion, accomplish ten times more in our time than we accomplish? Can we be hopeless in our time about the issue of freedom when against which tions of they struggle? we look back upon the odds took up spiritual arms through genera When we become discouraged, let us remember them. When the burden of working for the liberal giving for the liberal cause, seems so heavy that we may have to give up one little luxury for it, let's remember those who gave their lives. It seemed crucially important to them. It still is, although now its frontiers of opportunity are wide beyond their imagining. Dr. [Ernest] Caldecott said to me last week, during the cause, and of a conversation, that if he were totalitarian dictator of the United States the first group he would put on the blacklist would be the Unitarian ministers. That might be a course intelligent decision in an attempt to regiment our people speedily and completely as possible. But we are not under very as 263 |
