Homiletic Review Psalm 137:5-6 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.… By keeping in remembrance the virtues and principles of the noble and patriotic men who laid the foundations of this republic. While the memory of the immortal Washington and his co-patriots is green, and the principles of his "Farewell Address" are cherished by us, we are safe. 2. By honouring with suitable memorial services those who have sacrificed ease and fortune and life itself at their country's call, in behalf of liberty, principle, the right. 3. By the enactment of wise and equitable laws, and a faithful and impartial execution of them. Never was the necessity of this greater or more imperative than now. 4. By elevating patriotism into a Christian virtue. Patriotism without piety; patriotism divorced from Christianity and the institutions of religion; the State, civil society, politics, given over to infidelity, to ungodliness, to the tyranny of human passions and selfish seeking, cannot be long maintained. And here is our greatest danger to-day. (Homiletic Review.) Parallel Verses KJV: If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.WEB: If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill. |
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