A LITTLE MIXED by A. Smith

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 17, 1879

A LITTLE MIXED.

By A. Smith

The following paragraph I transcribe from an address by Rev. Thos. Street, New York, at the fiftieth anniversary of the American Sunday School Union, May 30, 1865. It is, I think, a pertinent illustration of the growing union of the church with the world:— “It is almost impossible to hold a religious meeting now without turning it into a patriotic one. We can hardly talk about anything without referring to our flag, and bringing the patriotism in. A little Sunday-school boy was called up on the platform at an anniversary to repeat a verse of Scripture. When asked if he was ready, he replied, ‘Yes,’ and gave it thus: ‘If any man haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.’ [Applause.] It will not be strange, then, if on this occasion, when celebrating the anniversary of an institution bearing the name Union,—a word so precious at this time,—we should get the flag and the church a little mixed together.” A. SMITH.