Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1917 — TONIGHT [ARTICLE]

TONIGHT

PROGRAM OF PATRIOTIC MEETING AT M. E. CHURCH Short program by Rensselaer Band from 7:30 to 8. Song by Audience, led by Dr. W. L. Myer. (All join in the singing of these Patriotic song*.) “AMERICA.”

1. My country! ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died! Land of the Pilgrim’s pride! From ev’ry mountain side, let freedom ring. 2. My native country, thee —Land of the noble free—Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, thy woods and templed hills! My heart with rapture thrills like that above.

3. Let music swell the breeze, and ring from all the trees, sweet freedom’s song; let mortal tongues awake; let all that breathe partake; let rocks their silence break, the sound prolong. 4. Our father’s God! to thee, author of liberty, to thee we sing; long may our land be bright with freedom’s holy light; protect us by thy might, Great God our King.

Invocation. Song, “Indiana,” by Hanley.' D. H. Yeoman’s Quartette. Solo, “Your Flag and My Flag” . ...Miss Esther Padgitt Music for this solo was composed by Mrs. Loren Sage of our city. Patriotic Addre** < Dr. Grose of DePauw University. Song by audience, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

1. Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming, whose stripes and bright stars, thro’ 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 thro’ the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that starspangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

2. On the shore dimly seen, thro’ the mists of the deep, where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, what is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, as it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, in full glory reflected, now shines on the stream: ’Tis the star-spangled banner; oh long may it wave, o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

4. Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand between their loved home and wild war’s desolation; blest with vict’ry and peace, may the heav’nrescued land praise the pow’r that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, and this be our motto: “In God is our trust!” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.