{"id":1388,"date":"2023-05-30T13:43:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T17:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/?page_id=1388"},"modified":"2023-05-30T13:43:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T17:43:39","slug":"a-sermon-on-patriotism-and-the-spirit-of-76-april-15-1917","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/a-sermon-on-patriotism-and-the-spirit-of-76-april-15-1917\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sermon on Patriotism and The Spirit of &#8217;76, April 15, 1917"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States declared war and entered World War I on Friday April 6, 1917 (Good Friday as it happens). A week later ministers were asked to preach patriotic sermons on Sunday April 15, 1917. Among the manuscripts left by Earl Davis are two attempts to develop a patriotic sermon, &#8220;A Sermon on Patriotism&#8221; and &#8220;The Spirit of &#8217;76,&#8221; Both are below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither of these sermons feels complete. Both end abruptly and both are relatively short. Each emphasizes the importance of democracy. In Davis&#8217; opinion the principles of democracy are worth fighting for. The are different, however. &#8220;The Spirit of &#8217;76,&#8221; as its title suggests speaks of the initial fight for democracy in the American Revolution. &#8220;A Sermon on Patriotism&#8221; approaches democracy from a more contemporary level of principle. I have no way of knowing which sermon&#8211;if either&#8211;was actually given on Sunday April 15, 1917. <\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2023\/05\/17SermonASermonOnPatriotism15Apr1917.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">17SermonASermonOnPatriotism15Apr1917<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2023\/05\/17SermonASermonOnPatriotism15Apr1917Transcribed.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">17SermonASermonOnPatriotism15Apr1917Transcribed<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2023\/05\/17SermonTheSpiritOf761917.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">17SermonTheSpiritOf761917<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/701\/2023\/05\/17SermonTheSpiritOf761917Transcribed.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">17SermonTheSpiritOf761917Transcribed<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States declared war and entered World War I on Friday April 6, 1917 (Good Friday as it happens). A week later ministers were asked to preach patriotic sermons on Sunday April 15, 1917. Among the manuscripts left by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/a-sermon-on-patriotism-and-the-spirit-of-76-april-15-1917\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":54,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1388","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/dbaird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}