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SUNDAY SERVICES ON JULY FOURTH 

Extempore Remarks

 6	    The great theme so deeply and solemnly expounded
  	by the preacher, has been exemplified in all ages, but
  	chiefly in the great crises of nations or of the human race. 
 9	It is then that supreme devotion to Principle has espe-
  	cially been called for and manifested. It is then that we
  	learn a little more of the nothingness of evil, and more
12	of the divine energies of good, and strive valiantly for the
  	liberty of the sons of God. 
  	    The day we celebrate reminds us of the heroes and
15	heroines who counted not their own lives dear to them,
  	when they sought the New England shores, not as the
  	flying nor as conquerors, but, steadfast in faith and love,
18	to build upon the rock of Christ, the true idea of God — 
  	the supremacy of Spirit and the nothingness of matter. 
  	When first the Pilgrims planted their feet on Plymouth
21	Rock, frozen ritual and creed should forever have melted
  	away in the fire of love which came down from heaven. 
  	The Pilgrims came to establish a nation in true freedom,
24	in the rights of conscience. 
  	    But what of ourselves, and our times and obligations? 
  	Are we duly aware of our own great opportunities and
27	responsibilities? Are we prepared to meet and improve
  	them, to act up to the acme of divine energy wherewith
  	we are armored? 
 
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  Miscellaneous Writings --- Sermons. Extempore Remarks – July 4th  

 1	    Never was there a more solemn and imperious call
  	than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent de-
 3	votion and an absolute consecration to the greatest and
  	holiest of all causes. The hour is come. The great
  	battle of Armageddon is upon us. The powers of evil
 6	are leagued together in secret conspiracy against the
  	Lord and against His Christ, as expressed and opera-
  	tive in Christian Science. Large numbers, in desperate
 9	malice, are engaged day and night in organizing action
  	against us. Their feeling and purpose are deadly, and
  	they have sworn enmity against the lives of our standard-
12	bearers. 
  	    What will you do about it? Will you be equally in
  	earnest for the truth? Will you doff your lavender-kid
15	zeal, and become real and consecrated warriors? Will
  	you give yourselves wholly and irrevocably to the great
  	work of establishing the truth, the gospel, and the Science
18	which are necessary to the salvation of the world from
  	error, sin, disease, and death? Answer at once and practi-
  	cally, and answer aright! 
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