Equality

We hold these truths to be self-evident:

That all men are created equal;

That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights;
That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriv-
ing their just powers from the consent of the governed. Thomas Jefferson

Bumanity

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.

Service

Abraham Lincoln

God hath made of one blood all nations of men, and we are his children, brothers and sisters all.

We are citizens of these United States, and we believe our Flag stands for selfsacrifice for the good of all the people. We want, therefore, to be true citizens of our great country, and will show our love for her by our works.

Our country does not ask us to die for her welfare; she asks us to live for her, and so to live and so to act that her government may be pure, her officers honest, and every corner of her territory shall be a place fit to grow the best men and women, who shall rule over her. Mary McDowell

Education and Americanization

The Flag means universal education - light for every mind, knowledge for every child. We must have but one flag. We must also have but one language. This must be the language of the Declaration of Independence Woodrow Wilson Righteousness

I have lived a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth,

THAT GOD GOVERNS IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN.

And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it possible that an empire can rise without his aid?

We have been assured in the sacred writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the builders of Babel. Benjamin Franklin

World Brotberbood

But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. Woodrow Wilson

THE AMERICAN FLAG AND AMERICAN IDEALS

America, the Shouts of War Shall Cease

Apostrophe to the Flag (All uniting)

All hail to our glorious ensign!

Courage to the heart, and strength to the hand, to which, in all time, it shall be entrusted. On whatsoever spot it is planted, there may freedom have a foothold, humanity a brave champion, and religion an altar. Edward Everett

In the name of God we lift up our banner, and dedicate it to peace, union, and liberty now and forevermore. Henry Ward Beecher

I am what you make me, nothing more.

I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color.

A symbol of yourself.

A pictured suggestion of that big thing which makes this nation.

My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.

They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith, because

you have made them so out of your hearts.

WE ARE ALL MAKING THE FLAG. Franklin K. Lane

Salute to the Flag

National Anthem

Prayer

I pledge allegiance to my flag

And to the republic for which it stands;
One nation, indivisible,

With liberty and justice for all.

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that Star-Spangled Banner still wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

(All seated)

O God of purity and peace, God of light and freedom, God of comfort and joy, we thank thee for our country, this great land of hope, whose wide doors thou hast opened to so many millions that struggle with hardship and with hunger in the crowded Old World.

We give thanks to the power that has made and preserved us a nation, that has carried our ship of state through storm and darkness and has given us a place of honor and power that we might bear aloft the standard of impartial liberty and impartial law.

May our altars and our schools ever stand as pillars of welfare; may the broad land be filled with homes of intelligent and contented industry, that through the long generations our land may be a happy land and our country a power of good will among the nations. Amen. Charles Gordon Ames

LEADER: The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved:

He uttered his voice, the earth melted.

ASSEMBLY: The Lord of Hosts is with us,

The God of Jacob is our refuge.

LEADER: They that trust in the Lord

Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth forever.

ASSEMBLY: As the mountains are round about Jerusalem,

So the Lord is round about his people
From this time forth and for evermore.

bymn God the All-Merciful (Third stanza only)

Responsive Reading

LEADER: Come, behold the works of the Lord,

What desolations he hath made in the earth.

ASSEMBLY: He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth,
He breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder;

He burneth the chariots in the fire.

LEADER: Be still, and know that I am God:
I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth.

bymn God the All-Merciful (Fourth stanza only)

Prayer

Responsive Reading

(Seated)

LEADER: Of the increase of his government there shall be no end, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice forever.

ASSEMBLY: Nations shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

LEADER: I will make thy officers peace and thy rulers righteousness. Violence and destruction shall no more be heard in the land. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. ASSEMBLY: For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

LEADER: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will make a new covenant with you. I will put my law within you and write it in your hearts. My people shall all be righteous; they shall inherit the earth forever. I, the Lord, will bring it to pass in mine own time. ASSEMBLY: Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth! bymn (Tune ‘America ')

God, grant us now thy peace,

Bid all dissensions cease,

God, send us peace.
Peace in true liberty,
Peace in equality,
Peace and fraternity,
God, send us peace.

LEADER: Peace should be made with all mankind. It should be our care not only to make peace, but to maintain it. But this will never be until we are persuaded that quiet is better than disturbance, justice than injustice, the care of our own than grasping at what belongs to others.

(Oration on Peace-Isocrates 400 B. C.)