My God and My Country

 We must adhere to those who cultivate peace, not to those who merely pretend to do so.
The Sunday SermonExcerpts from the Writings of ClementEdited by R.P. Woitowitz Sr.
Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness, and not to those who hypocritically profess to desire it. For [the Scripture] saith in a certain place, “This people honoureth Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.”  (Isaiah 29:13 xxix. 13;Ezekiel  33:31; Matthew 15:8-9; Mark 7:6-7;)   And again: “They bless with their mouth, but curse with their heart.”(Psalm 12:4; Psalm 73:8-9;) They loved Him with their mouth, and lie to Him with their tongue;  their heart is not right with Him, neither are they faithful in His covenant. and the boastful tongue of those who have said, Let us magnify our tongue; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?
For Christ is of those who are humble-minded, and not of those who exalt themselves over His flock. Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Sceptre of the majesty of God, did not come in the pomp of pride or arrogance, although He might have done so, but in a lowly condition, as the Holy Spirit had declared regarding Him. For He says, “Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? We have declared our message in His presence: He is, as it were, a child, and like a root in thirsty ground; He has no form nor glory, yea, we saw Him, and He had no form nor comeliness; but His form was without eminence, yea, deficient in comparison with the ordinary form of men. He is a man exposed to stripes and suffering, and acquainted with the endurance of grief: for His countenance was turned away; He was despised, and not esteemed. He bears our iniquities, and is in sorrow for our sakes; yet we supposed that on His own account He was exposed to labour, and stripes, and affliction. But He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we were healed. All we, like sheep, have gone astray; every man has wandered in his own way; and the Lord has delivered Him up for our sins, while He in the midst of His sufferings openeth not His mouth. He was brought as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before her shearer is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. In His humiliation His judgment was taken away; who shall declare His generation? for His life is taken from the earth. For the transgressions of my people was He brought down to death. 
Ye see, beloved, what is the example which has been given us; for if the Lord thus humbled Himself, what shall we do who have through Him come under the yoke of His grace?
Scripture as used above
Isaiah 29:13; Ezekiel 33:31; Matthew 15:8-9; Mark 7:6-7; Psalm 12:4; Psalm 73:8-9;