Excerpt from Uncle Sam's Church: His Creed, Bible, and Hymn-Book This Republic is on the eve of stirring events. The New Patriotism that is in the air is but a Divine instinct of preparation for them. Our White Navy is something more than a harmless symbol of National power and pride. It is not a flock of doves. It means Peace only when that is consistent with Justice and Honor. It would be ignoble to avoid the path of our manifest destiny in the Western World. We shall soon be confronted with pressing questions of Annexation which cannot be shirked without discredit to our Mission. Socialists, with deceptive olive branches, and Anarchists, with real daggers, torches, and bombs, are menacing the institutions that are our heri tage, bought by the Fathers with so great a price of blood and treasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.