TUB SOR ANTON TIUKUNE WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER a'J, 18!7. 11 SONS OF NEW ENGLAND ICoiitluded wero they moved by tlio wild spirit of adventure, for thov came with their wives iind their1 children TIioiikIi smati Ing wltli it sense of Injustice. It viii not In anger Hint they lett tliu land of tin lr birth A liolv foal Inspired tin in ntnl an Omnipotent Toner dire etui tin m It Is no tnsh nssctllon to say tint nevn be foie In history bntl such a bol of men controlled by such high and worthy mo tlvcs, voluntarily celled themselves In a vv lldornoss. icinu and pdopld. With the assembling of the new pn lliimcnt ami the llmil Joining of the Is sue between king ami people In old Dnglund. the mlgintlou tu Ann ilea ceased, lint by that time four tluaisiinl men wen holm; tho fntinihitlons of N w Dngluiid it liltlful handful as numbers no bin a might host wlnn tin n lam ing Is muili nf purpose, Inti UIri nee and devotion, and the stor.v of tin lr achieve mint Is the stoiy of tin progtcs of political Mt as and principles It wn for tliesi that thov had snotllleed tin li i.irlv homed and faced unknown hiudshlps and dingois and It was to thise tint tin v gavt the full vigor of tin It sph ndld man hood it In not within in province to trace the stioce sslvje stngos of tin growth of popular government and f i instliu tlonH In the western world but i-lniplv to Indicate the place of the Puilt.in In tho furtherance of thin right) cms tnusc. Of all the colonists he alone tepri smiled and Incnrnatcd supreme! tin mill It of cltUonshlp, and because if this he ho. camo the dominant Intlttenee In shaping the life that was to Issue at last In the strength and gloiy of a gnat tuition. Illllstliitlng befoie till tho woilil a "gov ernment of the people and by tin- people, and fur tin people " Hut I have not t Inilicnti d sulllrlentlv win tin Puritan giiiind this controlling Inlbienoi It was In canst the whole man went Into the woik of const ivlng and stiihllshlng huniiiu lights, riisl of nil In loved tlie cause It represented his supremo affection. Hint for which he was it nl to bit down his life If to us ho sums lucking In direction towaiil wife anil chlltliin we must not foi get his dtvotlon to in Idea. All the "- ntlment In had set mod to wrap itself about n gov t rnmontnl ldtal. lie clothed It with biititv and adornotl It with flower lie bt cairn lis knight. Its bold champion, Its chivalrous deftiidit To those who lic it lit tlie popular conctptlon of the Puri tan as grim vlsagod mid stein such a pn title may stem InoonKi limit,, but no muse eei et trlumphid that was not t nshrlned In the human htart Ideallztd and wot dilppid Out liumiiult Is-oion-fitltlltetl tint no life ttr ot bteiine sub limely hemic without the insplritlon of some ptofound and abiding sentiment, and I am convinced that we do not un derstand the l'tiiltnn iiml cannot ieoount foi his Influence until we recognize the KnlRlitllntss of his tlmotion to a pi In. clplc of government the presence be in atb tint haul cxtnlor of a sentiment bi.mtlfnl and strong, uplifting and en nobling lint this Is not all Not onlv 'lid the Purlt m give his heait lo the canst of political tights but ho rave It his Intellott also He thought nix! stud ' I bo planned and dlscussi d llu mind m.iv net h,te bun piollllt In bit is but such bb.tsns It pioductd wele lust and pi at thai Thov had the fibre i.r ciin vicHor and tho iiott ncj of huge nsults Miii thov lucked In tinpicnl luxutliiuco 'bey gnlin d In hardiness Pt'IHTN MIND Tli I'uiltati brain wan novel oal'itlatod to astonish mid captivate but It watt pe tull.i'K llttttl to convince and to compel spict Nothing Is mole evltltnt In the onlv hltor of New Hngland Hi in the vignrms thought that was upnliii! to ii.isiions of government. The town mtet n, was a place of debae win re mind nut mind and mgiimoiit clashetl with urgiinenl Matters of public pollen w.ic 1 'outlined not bv the miichasc ol votes a the will of n dlcttitoi. but b the enn i, in st nf oplnliin. the ast nt of lutein . tit fuemiii The Ilt ratine of tint per ind w.i.s pre-cmluonllv political Tli lust H 'Ui-'bi of the best minds tin best "to ight ol nil minds was given to civil HthiH and duties, privileges and nspnu--in llllles But btvontl this the Puiltnn conn lence was enlistid. Tliat eonsiience wlilth has bcin the Jest of tin thoughtless and an offence to tho iunsii-iitchbs was tint nitghtiisl foite that went to thr making i' Aim rlca With -til its narrowness and bigotiv it was still the moiul sense v lileh fill Its wa thiough all questions i' ti elay to t-om. etiinil prluelpli be iniih It was the moial em lev that biushed uwa the sophistries of exp. di- in und laid luo.id and ibcp the founda tions of lightiousness The Puritan's ccnsili nee-' Thank God foi it Without It his love of libel ty would have In en a moikei. his t booties ol government u delusion It is not In the povvti of mind in heart oi both alone to build oiului Inglv The tint of tontclenee Is the ti iKliptoiio of iimIU, and It Is the death-b-s gloiy ot the l'tiiltnn, the sioitt of his Hiipume contlol over the di stlnb s ct this lejiublle that he brought mine) a 'id In an and conscience to the work of creating a state Tin- whole man e xpmssed lte If In his cltle-nshlp That, as nothing else, tills win lie h is been dominant foi Ameilm, gentium n is tltdleated to eitl7onshlp ""lint defines In a wotel Its hlstui and it. mission It stands before the wmld a- the highest n presoiilntie of a pnliil tal svstem that gives each Individual an tiiutil shaic of authority and lespon slblllt in govcinmoiit lis vve.iltb anil ls Inii lllgento arc but agencies to eon- rv.i tho rights, the privileges the os. smiltil dlgnltv of mm iis man apuii fiom nil other considerations This, at least Is the American Ideal This the ptlii'lple that voices Itself In our con Htltuiluii uuii speaks In till tho strug gles of the past. Hut the Idea is it unieulized in all Uh fulniss, the prlnel 1 b vindicated by experience gloillled liv sat mice is not ct established as linn. 1 in practlco as It Is In belief With all out theories of human rights eivdt net of Injustice and oppression slill confiouts us It Is doubtless liiivltable that It should ho so. for in all civil and suclil i volution practice never measures up to theorv and It Is Just btc.iuse of this I tmt tho work of intrlots is mvu lln lelnil l-'ach suicisslvo stage of piogu s brings iimv problems calling for now tb. voilon TIIKOUY OK CMTJZnKSniP Moieovei. whcievci thtit Is life there Is growth. A vital principle Is an expand, lng prltKlple that is tho proof of Us vltnlltv The tlnory or citlzi nshlp is linger toilaj than vesterdav. 15eglunlni; with a di titration of lights It has duvel. eiptd into u ib ehir.ttlon of obll(,titlon. l-'iom Hit principle of linli iondeiict It has itdMinteil to tho ptlnclple of eo-op'-rotlon Tho Inalienable right of the Individual, tho lift Illicit and tin pursuit of hap pluess. has been merged Into tlie no less Inalienable duty of the Individual to sham bib life, liberty and hapirfnoss This is tho now ami larger meaning of citizen ship, coming to expression in tho social struggles of tho present, and it Is no less an advance upon the former con teptlon than that was an advance upon tho conception of Toiy England hefoio th das of tho commonwealth. If America Is still to stantl for the principle of citizenship, if this laiger Ideal Is to find here Its vluldltatlon and Its Increasing realization, if the higher llfo tu which it Invites and the i ichor blessing which It promises repiesent tho yet more glorious tistlmoii of this ie public then the bplrlt of tliu Puritan must be tovlved, and we. the living must lepeut Ills devotion until with a holy enthusiasm begotten by llvlnst faith in a loving ratbei, wo bring lie art and mind and conclonce to the work of mak ing Amerlcu moio manifestly, moro com pletely a nation of frcomun u nutloii of brothers, whero Justice) Is tivun-naudiitl, and netd, a calm, and love, tho tulllllliig of the law. Tho Hobor Hentlnmnt of tho Puiltun ,tnd his political Ideal und sentiment fnoin Pane S I tin levpiileti in i)v. naymond's ppcpcli jUuck a populai' chut d ninoni; hia iiittllttiis sinil they applauded hlin with loivor Ills thoughtful pulrlotlc cf futt made n lasting Impression, The second tonsi tesptmsi wns by Or. Iltuilson, provost of the t'nlvcislty "f rpiinsylvnnla, on "The' lr. of 1'." Ho wns Iwtimluced by Picsldent Wnr lcn In this wise: This Is an age of criticism, an are of doubt, hlstoilc not le-ss than thiologlcil Homebody has wittily said the hlght st outcome nf modi rn classltal Investiga tion has been tho doubtful dloovoiy that the Illlad v. as not written by Homer, but b auotbtr tun n of the saim iiiinie. This Is certalnl a startling pioposltlnn, but tvcti niotc startling Is the tlalui, supported now b.v whob volumis of folio, that our IhiKlNh nncestots eer clsesl such vast Inlluence In slnplng the ditlliibs und chiiitteiti of our Instltu tlons. Hut In tiutli tbev had pn clous llt tli to do with i bin i. Time Is. howivir, one landmark not to be lost sight of and It Is an Impinliint thing that tin utmost attention of the pllgilms and tin It nutt ings was to fnsti r the cause of eOucallon In Its broadest md loftlist sonso. No men. In nil the iie, bavi moie Intelli gent! v and linpllcltly followed the In Junotloti of Solomon "Take fnut hold of Instt action, let In I not go keep her, for she Is thy life-." So we have ulmndnnt warrant lor the Intliisloti in our list of this sentiment, the I'nlverslty of l'enu Bilvanla. In response to the toast. Dr. Haul son snld lientbmeir I rise with a glial dial of pb isiiu to the to tst. The t'lilvtislt ol Peiinslaiihi ', bill, upon sueh an oe cas. Ion as this to ti foi toaiiv iiniversltv and not to refer tu Ntw England uiuveisltlos, would Indeed be most uugelicious When we lelleet that lln landing of the Pl'gilnis was onlv slslmi vears and that tho Hi st house tu Huston was only sl yonis li'fnie the foundation of liaiv.tid college w is I ild. mil lespicl and jilmlratloii .iio tiiMd to the iitmosl In tin wonts of PioKssoi Pbrn Sitirnlv hud the I'll Mini lAithns subdued a lew spots In the w llili I in ss w In n tin v 1 ltd Jie Inundation ol the Ilarvald of todiiv, HAItVAHD'S l.N'KM'GNK. The Inlluiiue of llnrvanl eollcge round id Yulo In lTiU. fur till the llrst lnisin.sof Yale wcie gt initiates of llaivard al thougli suspicion as to t-.io orlliodosv of llnrvanl was tin linnieillate cause of the fotindiillon of the m vv Institution ll Is tun tint tho training of mlnlstns of the (lospel heiiiuw New Ihiglnntt was lalR' lv a tin orotic stati was the Hist pin post oi Harvard und of Yah but It was not long befoie this purpose was gieally biimilined Little did tin men think who brought bit llfi ilaivard William and .Mai and Yale, that tttcy Win eilucit. lng mm und moulding opinion which made the e nation of -i m v liaileu. possi ble Little did thov think that then ef forts almost snlfl; woiilu t rente lb it forte which tissmiblid In Phllatlel,ihla 'n 1TTH and tint lln vvi ie liucoiisciousl.v bo gbiiilng the flaming of ihe coli.tltutton iiiider which vv live toiliv It is :iuo t'nt in lib i Washington nor .liffer.ton wns n unlveisltj man but llnue weio none who saw m ie ibtnl tin need of i stabllshbig Aineiltan iiuiverslili s, or who gave tnoie of thep Ihotght und means to this patilolle ptuposi. Hut most oi ihe ablest mi n In tne ei unclls ol the nillon at this .time we ie univcisitv men -the majoilt of t nurse btint, Irnm Har vard nnd Yile-tiutl all of the New Hug land eb mi lit In Ihese councils wns one that hud absoibed tin liii'MillImr lulltl enee of these Institutions Sm was this New nnglnntl 1 HI ondeialiee n' brlel con lluuaneo. As late as KM. Horace Husli ui 11 said that John ' I'lllnnin bad told a fotinectleut le-jirescniatlve upon the lloor of e oii(,ress ibat the native s ol e'on mitlcllt together with the giadiiatis ot Yale college. VN.inted only live of being a ma lot it of the whose boil' Anothei toplt In which 1 would liki lo dVMll if time peimltted would be the .n llllenre of sonu ol the eul Ne V Hltg 1 mil giaibiati upon ihe wiiob svsiem nJ i luintlon In tin 1 nlied Ptati s Penult me to pav a brief tiihute to tin nienioiv ol one of them Mitll.isseh c'llllei Wits btun In Connecticut In ITU gtaduatitl nt Sale In I'li, Master of Aits of Ilarvald In l"n lie became one of the jieat In llueutis on eeluiiilliiu v lib h this cmjniiv has had It was ho who unluteil congress In 1T lo out Into the nnllutnie for tho sale il public lands tin us iv ttinn ot eee llon slMton foi i dm at loll lie oi unitized the Ohio purchase and th it itn went there' himself and saw to tho uitiiests oj etliicntioti in the new teiritorv. 'Ihe im mense lesults ol the plans lo vvlibdjhn iimseciated his life have tailed renewed tittentiun tn thelr'iiulhor, and ihough tor n time almost forgotten his Is one of tho names which fiom 1 encofoith will live in our national nlstoiv IMC.NXSYUVANM II1STOIIY. Thcle ale some Incidents In the histoi v of Pennsylvania to wlibh in like uiun ncr art to New Hnglitnl we luav look with ginttlul li'eolleclion William Penn in a letter to his wife u ill ex hi regard u their chlldit ii "l"oi their learning, bo llbetal; spare no cost fin bv such par simony all lh lost thut is saved ' The llrst iihool establish, mI in Phllade Ipnla wis (hnrteiecl bv Utlll'im Penn In J"nl, tho dati of the tountlmi of Yale. It Is still iiiider tho ehtnge of the Hocieiy of Pilen-ls iintl Is itlll known as "The William Penn cum ur School.' William I't tin assigned his rinsons for ginutlng the i bailor to be llinl "tho pinspciltv and welfure of any people do. in nded In (.rent mi asurc upon the good fdiuatiou of outll nnd til. I r Mlllv in sunt Hon In the iiilneiples of true reltil m anil virtue wherub llu might be ihe liultej qiiablb el tti si I e Hull inunti and themselves ' Nor wns this i N.tmple loi gotiin by his hells Win n tin i'.ilbe ot Plilltulelphl i was fuiinilcil the chui r full giauttil llbetal charlns. and troiu tlint lo time ever material aid to that whlih aftervvanb dovoloped In'o the lnl vusltv of Penuslvnnlu. A Ne vv Ihigland mm fiiundeel the college autl wntchlully caiYtl lor Its Intel ests until and alter ll developed Into the unlviisliy. Heiijtinhi 1 i.iiiklln had initio Until i counii wli.ip 1 life was haul, to Hie fattt r lauds ol Penn sylvania As hi walked up the m.uk. t pi ice upon his landing, lie iniiiid Hi tt In had cmie t-i a great vvnc'l prodtii Ini cniintrv. lor the loaves which were h..nd. od to lilin for his tliiee pi nn were so 'n Mess of vvhil he bntl epeetetl, that, us lie said: "1 was stirpitsi d at the iUau llly. but tool; tt and having no room tn my pocket vvnlked olf with a toll under eueli arm, anil eating the other," in i'-lu ho Issued his "Piuposals To wards tin- IMiuntlon of the Vouth In ' 'U'linsvlvanla ' and the same ear In Vvli llu "College and Acudeiny of 11 II ailwrdii ' wer. einpnvven.il to giant ib grei s, as tne seioiid ste-p icsultlng from ihisc "1'iopusuls" inumel, l.i I'M), lien Jiniiii INiinUlIn rtculved fiom Yale cor lege Its heinnraiy degree l'lllST SIX STUDKNTS. The Illst six stlldeills to teceivo the lie. gleu of Haclli loi nf Alts vtli togethei a iiin.irkable gioup John Htithe. lector of Chi 1st cltureh ami St. pctui s am chiin lain hi Hie cniitlutintitl eouKress, I'raucis Ilopklnson. the famous wli of the ltevo lutlon, slMicr oi thu Uoclainlinn of Hide, ptildeiue James Lutla mndiiaui of the genenil nsosmbl of the PiOiOiytonnn thurth In Aiiieileu, Samueil Magnv, vice provost ot thi untvuislt, John .MorKa.i, I hKlihiu.in-clili'l tn the Ameilcan ami nnd roundel nf Hie flist medical school in the I 'nlted fj'atos name) that ul thv) I'nlverslt of I'ennsvlvanln, ami Ilujh Williamson niembei or the eulitluelitiil congiuss anil ol the conwiitullmiiil con vention of 17c Those six mm received thilr Haehedors Dcgieo nt thu hands of William Smith, tin llrst provost of the uuivurslty, unci himself an eminent pa triot, und I hold In m hand tho coni meiiccmnt cNeuclse Is full upon that mttmoifthle occasion the Illst commence, munt or the university, the urooucillngs having lwm -printed by Btjnjumln rrnuk- lln. Hut there Is one fact most crcdltnblo to the state of Pennsylvania, In Hi it hoic, for tho llrst tlmo In American hlstor, higher education wits nuiilo ti part of tin fundamental law. The earliest written iniistttutlnu of Pennsylvania was adopt ed In 177G It provided: "A school oi schools shall bo established In each conn tv b the Icglslatuic, for tho convenient Instruction of joulh. with such salaries to the master, paid uy the public, as intiv enable them to Inslrutt youth tit low pi Ices, nnd nil u-cftil learning shnll bo dulv encouraged and promoted In olio oi more unlversltloii ' The iiniversltv treited under this clause of the constitution Is In mil View of all nf us totlav, after Its history of lfO cars. It ma not bo becoming In me to speak nt length loncernlrg It, and 1 wilt not do so Hasy or access, occuplng tho great est heritage In In lid In the heart ol ti gnat cltv of any tinlversit . with a popu latlon or moie than st von and one-half millions of pi'oplt vvlflilu a nnllus ol nun li und red miles of It Its chnnie to become line or tin great seats of lenrlmr In tho Vnlted Slates If not he great scat of learning In the Putted States Is untitles lloiuil. The eonllltts between tho tin. kees of Connecticut ami the Pt iiinanltt s, Hi tt lur a pet lod st'ilnccl this very ii-glmi ill emiul Serauton with 111" blond uf Its llrst settle! s on the one side or Ihe othci lire over now Tonight we meet on the once disputed soli to tender lnartfolt tiibuto to .Massachusetts and Coiitttlctit and their Institutions while hcnrtllv lo.vitl to our own state and hers While New Hng lanib rs bv descent, ou me Pennsvl Minimis b adoption and birth utnl I euniftl ask e.ith one of vou to m.iko the Pniversltv ol Pennsylvania ti tiart of his life i:auly foundations. Tluro Is nolhlng which his to do with life the life of each one heie upon this planet to which It may not be made to minister .Ionover the foundation of all the eirllor unlvc isltles was dlstlnctlv te llglous and almost all unlveisltlos eon tlnue in iet oo tbeli support from I'nrls liitti men and women Tin votk of our nnlveisltv should bo made tn include ov iiv ili-p.il t tin tit nf know bilge ami to open even iivinue of welfare to the whole slate and nation. The invitation goes to mill one of oti, but with it the warn ing that as each iiniversltv s workt Is mi unilllsi one, so iilnitMl nil work con not ted with It Involves soir-sacrilli o. 'Ihe struggles and self-s,tcrlllces of the New' Kngl.indi rs of U.K., when there were but IIiihiO people ill all the settlements of tin' colon : the striiFgles of those who sought to fnnnd Wlllluni und Mai and Yale, nboiil IHiv vtai.s litei, whan there who pmhihlv JOOOtio Inhabitants In thcs.0 old colonies won no gie.itei, ami bole no ll.ndti upon those men, than those will h now fall iiuiin tho men who ire seeking to pionuiti the Inlluenio and growth of on- inn i isltb . (bntl. nnn If I sh til have sin cccib d 'it eall'lif, our utteiitlon to the unl'.'c isl'.v -ntlrs lis We'l its llllm bv these tew vsiods I shall lliuiik vou Indeed fir htv In t Invited mo this evening And mil lew ml must come l mm too kuewleilce that we have iltaoln d o.n . si-lvis to an Impci Isluiht. Instltu. Ion-'or out lib- of he cliurch (under the v.iil'.g en ode in whl"h the lelUlous Ins'li t ot ru nklnd hi" found cpicssoni no tnstl tut.nr. bus et been devised bv in in with the Impel lshnhlo eh.iracler of uidveisl ties ( nnxi Im slv or uncunscloul, we . II liv- i.i'dei Hull piolectlon mil I bobevo C'ai i ae h one or the gteil t'ltiv Isltles, line1 tin se vet to be csialillsh" I will Ive it bins ns tho nation Hsts, nun niev bo intiilo tt be lh'1 ft eat factors in tin- pro ii ii a1 on oT our tuition's life, is Hie men w'.o co out f'om iiiilve isltles loi 1 moie und in re tn t titles or citizen) p Ml I:, vi i his ice ii'v slid that, "ol all .bo ins) luiloits in Ameilt.i unlvers'ibt nto ti' ibl-iinoni nt making the swift st mog toss mid have the brightest promise lor the future, and that the are suppllng eac liv those things which t titles hive hitherto found bicklng in Ameilea. lot Hie me eontilbiitlng to her political as well .is to her contemplative life, ele m t ts of Inestimable woith " TI al is a worth inteiest to us. de rail ll Is a perpetual Interest, that Is i n in'o , waul bittitisi we sei vv re mU'rt I Jbi weall hope that fiiini that quiet nl iniisplien of ttmh seeking iiutl simpllcllv nt lite wlilth unlveisitles mate tin i o mnv go. In 1 irgoi numbers evei.v ear. Into the gi eater UN of the nation, men who will be as Mr. Pioude has said. "Those m whom the coll to duty will sound touch r than tile iu'1 to pleasute, und who will henl the demntvb or lustlee lather than those of material ixptd lencv Dr Haiil.son's elfoit, which In Its feiiwnidliiK of the I'nlveislty nf I'enn sylvnnln did not neglect the othei eaily constituted unlveisitles of the coun tiy, wns locolved with no less pleas uie than that of the pieceding spcukor tils nddiess caused no little pilde to swell In the thoughts of tlitvi' pilvl leged to call themselves Puiltanlcal Ponnsylv.inlans. Ml!. nVAIITS INTUODPCCn Mr. Hviirts was happily Ititiotlueed by President AYaticn as an 'SI clnss mnte uf the lattei and J Hen Dlm inlek at Yule Ml. Hvaits lespondotl to the toast The Futute New IJng lamlei " He deploied his Inti otitic tlon thuiugh the ne v.spnpers as only 'the son of Senntoi ljvnits," In view of the I'nct that It w.vi, a condition in which he had im pait and that he was only nno of si chlldi en In a humorous way ho commented upon the recent Platt-loini politics in New Yoi k city und enteti'd a discussion of the futuio New i:iiglniitlei. .something lip hoped to see In rcallt. The piesent political clIscouiaKPinent suggested by un.safe lenders, lie thought, was onl tin a time und declared that the ctlsls of the futute would be ginsped and ovetenme as had been those of tlie past. Intellectual honesty of the pilgrim futbeis and the otu .-.stoiCi of el.., .,u I out generation, lie hoped, would not be Isolated In fitoups in tlie present day, gioups hiinllar In composition to his audience Inst night Hettei that till of the piesent gcneiatlon should have tho inoi.il couinge and the hetltage of their foiefatlieis and oxptess It In lite, pre cept anil deeds us well as In opinions. One of the greatest incidents of the futuiu would be the controlling of the futuio Influx of those who came to this count! y tiom foreign shoies and chose to ndopt Anuilca, the United States, as their ndouteil land. It should be the ptayet of pan lots to he dell vei oil from sttange tongues and from those who chose tn change the course of l'tiiltnn learning tiom what pattlots would choose to teach their sons and (laiightet.s. "The New nnglnnd Dot tot" wns the toast topic of Homy S. Durnnd, M. D nf Hoehestei, unother classninto nt Yale of Piesldtnt Wniren lie felt, ho mild, tho "spotlllc" giuvity of his posi tion nnd he eiuated fieoly, medicinally nnd In a way tliat could not be liter ally understood, but which was none tho less appretlated. In support of his position. Ills descent from the French, but of the Ilugenots was nono the less wittily i elated. IN sniuop.s vntN. Seilously. ho temntked that among thu physicians, of New nngland thoro could bo found moie men who laboied fot mankind Hither than for tho good of their own pockets mum thnn from any other section of the country. The lovely fiateinlty existing between the New r.iiRlnnd doc tor and the life In surance ugent ho icmnrked upon In the same liumomus stiatn that had fea tured his eaillui effort. He told ll In thyme and with tucli wit and Innuendo iih to thnroughl cuptuie thu Interest and laughter of his huuiois. Mr. Sanderson, who is not only an "Jinn." by title hut by occupation as a leniwaittatlvu in the present Muss acliiiBottH loglslntuie, was Intioducetl ti leypoml to tho toast "Tlio New niiBland YnnkcH! at Home." After glvltiR Pro vost Harrison a body blow on the Ben jamin Franklin In the declaration Hint Franklin wilt to Philadelphia because, he colli lr.'t print well enough for Uos ton, Mr. Sanderson said: Mr Toastmaster, Ocntlemeii of the New l.uglnnd Society and Men or Slnctim 1 lot lew. For this most cordial and hourly gin Hug which ou as Now nnglntul nvm have given mo tonight, I return to ott tho full mensuio or thnnks or a New Lng lanil Yankee from home, nnd however much I ma ippeur to nii ns a stranger pcrvinnll. I um keeping will in mind Hint I nm among the people who owe ul leglmci to nnd claim tholt hlith In tlint grand old section whose memories nnd tiadltlons we honni this everlnc:. It Is a distinct sotuce or plenum t to mo to hud 111 this bustling and Hitlving city and vlctult Hint Mill hive remind un organ ization rot the puiposo ot keeping allvo the Yankee spirit uf New Ihigland pa triotism and the innnor of tin scenes of of othei iI.ijm nnd It needs but n gliiuco around this festive board to loiivluce tne Hint I am unit ng a lepiese illative body or Amerlcnns or the NVw Hnglniul tjpe And we are a petullai people, too, mid made up n llttl tllffi lent fiom the other tribes of Isiat I Old Paron Conk, ot ancient Sab m renllred this lor 1r. loiintl proof of It In the (lood Honk oil will lemetubei that one Satutdav night he in vl J tl his Sundav school cl iss to visit him nnd bt an uii'fintiled moment tula tho bos where Ills text was to bo Itiken lor the net tbi's si rtron Tie mischievous bovs tbereupo.i got the lllblo mid pasted together two of the leaves wnete tho tet occurred Whin the good man read the text the neNt dav. he began: "And when Noah wis out) bundled nnd twenty vears old he took unto hliutell a wlfo (hero he turned the page mid contlnue-ili. 1SJ cubits long and 3i dibits wide, all of gophct wood and writ covered with pitch within nnd without.' Conslilcnblv us tonlshid, he turned btrk mil tend tho tet a si i mid time and Uien said: "I do not lemember of ever si olng that tct ol Sirlptute bnrore lint it is tin to m.d I must In Hove It to be true and I take It as further evidence that we ale tiulfully and wonderfully made ' IT.CULIAIJI.Y MADH. And ttul we tire peceittailv made und among such piople I tun gleatlv plcasi d to be tonight, to loin with ou In Ibis ttunil leunjon and to help jou pass an evening nt good clieel and good lellovv shlp. Niilur.illv I und mvself a little nt loss to speak to vou rnr I hive- lieeti e ni tloiud that matte is political must not im bmiichoel Tor I suppose that Niw Ihig land men are bound to turn r on niliioi matte is wherovei dispersed Hut otter the stilfe am! the tin moll or lite cam paign Is past and the conflict Is over wo tan come together and agree that alter till outs Is one common eouutiv and wo tlo not mean as nun h ns we inrai times sav. It leminds nn or the good old Meth udlst liruthi r at hotni, who wits noted lor his tremendous leivui when ho appealed tn the thlotn ol gl ice Ills pi.tveis w T" lrng and mighty .tun Hio nnuojeil uelhli bois often thio.itened to move. Hut lust ittross the stiiet vis a coiie.epondlnlv piorane bi otbi l, who would blaspheiiii' be otid nil einluiaiice and tho stioak ot proranltv which i.ime fiom his lips wis sltnplv appalling. Pin illy the good uioth er went neioss one morning and plead with his bad biothei to stop "You are a ten Ibl profane man Hi other S. said he. "and 1 wish vou ml?hl be induced to stop' "Will ' said the piofane nelgin bin, "I know tint I swear outrageoit tly nnd ought lo stop hut von know. Ilrother (1 tint vou ptav tu,st us baill and von ought to stop but after all we don't elthei of us n e.tn vol much b It This Is mv tli -st visit tn Seinnton, nnd tt is ccrlntulv a livila.ion to me tn Und such n bustling tin Iv lng and glow lng ill, and I in ike no doatit but what vou leel as did ihe Ilosttm worn in who died ami went to the i calms above. Atter .1 lapse of time she was able to communi cate with lur sorrowing spouse lett bo low, nnswoitd bis Iniiuiiies concerning her new li iliitut b.v saving tint tho snoots uf gold the gates of pearl, lilt? walls of taspor the entlte surroundings were all verv nice, "but then." she added, "It Is not Hostoii ' And 1 ma sum that vou reel that theie can be but one Sciau-ton Old Philip Abbott bulldnl Ixttel than ho knew when ho rorsouk the fertllo plains ot Coin ncticut. lame neioss lots and built Ids mill on Ito.tilug Hiook. thus establishing the llrst Industtv In this New Ihigland made ellv How much he look his lire In his hands we do not know how much he risked to break the stubborn wilderness we e inuol loll, but ceitnln it was he was possessed of tin true New lhiglnnd Yankee suit It mid his toungo and skill an rhi iniini stones upon wlili ! i ou Invi- built. And tmm this small beginning vnur gmwili has lietn nothing short or rdicnnim ml A moie speck upon the m ip nt tin- nuttimak ot tin- great rebellion vou have In the shoit spite or thirlv veins arrived at the tlig ultv of the thlnl municipality In this vast and magullleent Kevstone state mul ot who knows the possibilities and extent or a Ornate t Soi, niton'' With Cod's boiri tbs lull nt Mill feet ou call wed say with the peilmlst that tlio oauh Is outs and the fulness thereof and that juu look to the hills ft om whence intuitu onr ncMp. And ts it un wnuilit thu I, as a strangei stop und marvel when I ton sldi t that vou tne sending uwiiy uuuually .V nm hoi tons or coal to iimi and v.aim n suffeilng wot Id" It makes mo positive that outside tin associations ot birth Sei niton still holds a wntm spot in evtiy Ni v, Hugl tin! household and luaiiv a night when the iliittiiii; snows ami thlll lug winds ot our northern homo encom pass us about the rod lights Hash trom tho black diamonds ol Snanton. bidding us be or guod cheet Were I to tl 10 name the vvnudeifiillv illvelsiltnl IiuIusj tilts which am 0ui tov 1 1 or st length. I should in tup inori' ihau my allotted time, but I am inite'ctl safe in saving ill it Si ittuton in ed not go bevotul hoi h ir. tb rs tor iinv thing which human Ingenuity tan ibvlsi ot nuK 'Win innlilst ill othei things the till me that nu go to extreme b making the best musing bot tle and the most alti.ietlvo colIln that vnur macaroni out mat minks Itnl.v. lint vnui Hour Is whiter ami our vlnegai sinner, that our lace puts Nottingham lo shame, that our silk reudeis Luns a foigotteii tit, and so on fiom a nail to a locomotive vou arc proline lng inylhlug and en 1 thing And ou nie a ctlv it schools und churches No New Hntlaiul hamlet Is without n temple or leunlnj; und Hie temple of (loci und following 'n the fnutsttps of ihe antestois ou nave mi hundied ot' tin so stitu tines to ,lui l)iestlge and thmnitei All these things might Insplle with wonder the pnssei-by but as 1 look mountl this grtut romp tnv uf New Unslaiul men I um made easily awaro of the secret ol jour success. PILOIUM ANNlVnnSAHY. Hut we are heie tonight to commemo inte the nnntveisnr or thu day when time landed upon the sum nnd lock liutind coast of New Hngl.tiid that httlo band ot brave ht.iits autl tnuiageous souls, who lleelng fiom the oppression nnd tytauii of the Old World sought u place where the rnlgnt enjoy a lull measure nf civil and icliiilous llbert And there, in the fun st piiiiiowil. cncoiii passed ubnut by dangers seen and un si en. won led by rumble, decimated I)' disease and In the Hue or almost insur mountable alll.cultlcs the 1 td tlie corner stone or liberty, bringing tut tli the blocks the used from the nuariv of iitlllitlun, siuaring them by the square ot virtue and b veiling them bj tut plane of pa tilotlsm Cemented by furllliide and e outage the foundiillon still stands und upon It there has Usui not onlj the com monwealth of Ma-snchuhclts mid tho New Ihigland ot u New Wotld, but those I'nlted Stutis ot America. The dajH of the t'atheis nnvvvver, hiiv long since passed bj. Win ro was the plantation Is now the thriving cit . whom was the deseit and wlldernosn now blooms the ruse, wane marched brave Miles blandish to mtel the sav age Massasolt now llo the tolling acre, ol tin fann.-r, where love 1 Prlscllhi Mullens sat and spun at her wheel while John Allien pie id for his captain, thoro now hum thu mill ions of modern spindles; whom Hrailford looked nut riom Plymouth hill to tatch a glimpse of tho sail which should tell of thu return of tho Mayflower, thuro now puss to mid fro the fleets of nutlons. Thu plough of the farmer still tutus up tho axe and arrow-point of the rctl-man; tho ancient homes of the fathers nro slowly tumbling down nnd soon thetu will be lit tle but the blackening stones In the grave Muds on the hills to point to the recur Is or the past Hut a moment mmoved I rum tho rush and rour or tho busy stieets of Hostou there rest In tho silent hulls or death tho Hraclfords and Dudley, the Wlnthrops nnd lhullcotles ot tho Old Col cmv, but their memory lives and will llvo In the lunrts or their descendants until time shall bo no more. During the shirting scenes or cars wlilth have followed, however the New Ihigland spirit has lost none of Its force mul when the clouds of war have hov eled over us It has been the mutual sc iiueiice that New lhiglniid men huvo been the Hist to stand fot Uod and home mid native land. Who was It but the men ot Hostou who prepared the llrst utternoon tm In the en use of llbeit7 the harbor for n cup, pouting the grains fiom a Hril Ish canister and steeping it all with the fire of patriotism. Wren Major Pltcairn. on that mist morning in Apill, stlucd his punch with his finger In the ulci Mon me tavern at Lexington, and vowed thut litfoie night lie d stlrr tho ankee blood In like niannei, he little thought that the country Yankees, nv! among them my own ancestial inundfathcr would before dusk TIIH FATHFI'ti DAY. 'fllve Hum ball loi ball Prom In hind each fence and inrm-yaid wall mid eh ise his red coats down tho lane, that "H.v tin- rude bridge which arched tho Hood,' the cinh titled farmers of Concoid would un Hint fateful da tire the shot heard round the wotld. It was tlie New Hug land Yankee spiill which Inspired Kthtn Allen to st mil ns a rock for his loved On en Mont ibis and to shout In the ear or the tilphtinid Deliplacc his deruin 1 tm lnstnut sill lender It spoke thlollgh br.ivi Jnhii Sink at Hcnulngton whin ho dot hired th t befoie night lie would have the lcd-coits oi Molly would bo a widow, It came Hem Pieseott at Htinkei Hill, wlnn be told Ills mill tn kt op their tlio until tl'i could si e the whites ot Hio inemles' ojis. It was in the iein.uk of the pattloH old Quaker .Stephen Hop kins of Piovldeuci wlnn he tnmblllig 1 xit'licd tlie Immortal Declination ol In ilepentieiire njlng as Joint Adams olfcreil to sign his ir mi lot him. "No, sir, 1 will not have another hutig tor signing tor mo John Hull will llml that If my hand tremolos mv heatt Is (Inn." Han cock and Adams and Otis thundered tor tt I'litnnu umldlovti und Lincoln rough' fm It Wooster. Worn u nnd Thomas tiled for It It was In tho lcart or Lawreii"o when lie sailed out f I ostmi on the Cbet -npu the to met tin Munition ami elvlng to dem mil of bis n ru "not to give U the ship ' W lion the great uprising In the north c inn In the pet lions tlajs of til, when gland o'd Ooveinot Andrew, ol Massa fnitsitts tailed Tot nun who was It nut tin- hojH ol l.vnn and Lowell, and Itcael lng and Sloueham my own ll lends .nut iulf,hbofs who lesnoiuled on the Instant and fotmetl the bnunus SIMIi Missaelill etts which pushed Its vvaj thiough Hul timoie ti"d shed the Hist blood In that mcmoi.ihli c onlest' And fiom it thou sand hlll-tjps or dear old New Ihigland. where the 111 st rajs or the rising sun giett tin m In the moiuing mul when tho last llugirius beams cast their ii,tilos at night tliet lest the thousands nt blttVo bovs v.ho went out. not to le.ison wbv, but slmpl) to do and die A' und Inter, wlnn a en iico llu nation was tliio.it i nod with tin dangii or untried mi.niiies nnd unsound schemes nnd the cuuiiliy seemed In Imminent pel 11 Hum the lot i -its und stieams or Maine rtom the iock rlbbi el hills or New llnmpshiic, lrom the gimid old Oroin Moui.tulns ot the north, lrom where the encircling sands ol Ihe capo leach out to meet the sllecr sea. to the lofty plcnaolos of our own He'ik shlie, from the bordeis of llllje Ithodj to VNhtie the majestic fatlier ot wateis of New Hngland sweeps through the plains or Connecticut them went up mi answer or 3v00t) for national honor lute-gilt) and sound mom Ni:W nXGLAND SPIltlT. Hut although sweet pence hath settled down upon our bcllvnl cotintiy wo still have need of the sumo New Ihigland splilt whh h 1ms brought us down a na tion or ptosperlty and happiness 'lh.it eternal vigilante which Is the price nf sucee's tendinis us that Hun links with in out midst the dangerous venom wlil'h unless checked, will I le.tt nie much, pi I mi ate ivory vein or our below cl eolin 11 True tteotfei n lend nsjlum roi tho oppressed tlio down-trodden and the bom st Immliriunt who sicks out shoies tn Income a man among us, but tin lime has come and is past when the flood tide Kites of Immlgiatlon should In closed For je.trs the outcast, tin paupei, tho nimliiil and the .inaichlst have been pom lng in upon us until we have como tu our senses and begun to lenllo tliat self-pieservatlou Is the first law of na ture In the last eongiess It wns n New Hugland buv the giaticlson or .lefleison s htcietarj of the nav, oiu Junior I lilted States si tntor, the girted brilliant Htnr Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, who ounigi cnislj pushed thiuiii-h his tamoiis Immlgiatlon hill, onlj- to see it meet tho vito cl him who bus eb palled sited not tt teal Hut Hue to his Ne.v Ihigland spirit he his again pltned ll upon the c ib nd. it and It will again un et with the npptoval ot tin lepnsi utultvcs of thu people ami Intel will lecilve the slgin ture ut the cltuen the soldlci. the pa ti lot. the tjpletl Ann He in William .Me Klnh v and with the In Ip oi join dis tinguished townsman the commissioner nf Imnilsiatiuu let us hope that onco moie Ameilea will In for AnieiUans Some time .120 a will known p.tpei with much patiiotisiu tn spate s tld tint lifter nil the Amerhi'ii llaj was' hut a few pieces of li Mile fabilt united and sewn togethei. Av ' textile fabric mv fib nils, tl inav be file but evciv bllllllclit stripe und ili..7llng coin! ot mi tolds, und eviiv glutei lng st 11 on vim hick ground nf pin est blue lepriseni the ilevn t.on and Intcgrltv nf a li.tllon Sewn to gethei' Yes by the (outage and suil lltes of Its piople. I'nlted ' es, b the patilntlsm or an bundled veals And ns It waves on high It Is our inspliatlon and our 1 cHutc und nui stmiigtb, our oildti nnd our honoi mid rur It wo will siniid und die tor it if (lod wills Against the rising tide or disoidir we plate the Vmerlcati people Ai,uinsl the led flaf ot ttuaiehy wy place the Sims und Stripes And now 1 htvi done The Now Ihig land Y'Hikee at homo Is tho smut as of old. "honest an slickly mid not to know In', ' mil win 11 1 nee mole If the count I Is In danger and peril und m "d. the people will w ikon and listen to hm tho burn ing hoofs Units or a stcul unit tut mid night message or tinotner Paul UiVele. And tiiiull) let us sing wlih Now i'ng l.md's loved Dr Holme's: "New niiBland, we ?". e Hue. 110 Hino 1 nn erase Prom the hearts or thy chlldicu the smile of tlo face. You have left the dear laud ol the lako and the hill. Hut Its winds mid Its wateis will talk with jou still. Tho bamiunfs gay splendois uio gleam ing ainuuil, Hut join bents have down back over tile waves of tho sound. There nie roofs j'ou rcniemhei-thclr glory has lied; Them mo mounds In tho chuichyaid 0110 sigh for the dead Fnough! There are gentlemen waiting to talk. Whose woids ate to mliio as the (lower to the stnlk Stand bv I'tr old mother whatever be- rail: Uod bless nil bet c llllilt f 11. Oood night to 0ii all." Hev. Hoccih Isiaol was Intiodticed by Piesldcnt AVa'ren us n "Usher of men" at d who was known as such out side as well as In his church (St. L11I e's) In Kcrpnton. That the presi dent s opinion was tdinred bv the pntb- eilng was showed by the long continued applause which greened Mr. Isrool fnun the tepiofientatlves of the many bect ptosent. Major Wnueu In Inttnduclng him related a stoiy.of the Individual Ishlng expeditions of an Hpiscopal, a Prchbytetlan and a Haptlst t'letvrymati who left Hcranton one tiny to fish for trout. When they compared notes In tho evening It appeared that the F.pls copal rector hnd a liapkct full of plnk belllcd beauties while the divines ot tho other faiths hnd been compatatlvoly unsuccessful. When eiuestloned ns tu his luck the Uplscoiiallnii remarked that Jt was not strange us he lit addi tion to being 11 minister of the gospel, was a piactlcal nsheiinan, a descend ant of the fishers of men St. Luke's rector, if he nevci befoie knew ho hnd that reputation, knew it list night. The mot of Piesldcnt War ren was a mire lilt and happily Intto luecd Mr. Israel who. according to inst custom, was piesent as the tecto. or pastor of the president of the socictj. He said. Mr. President, members of the New Hnglantl society and fellow guests. It seems somewhat strange to me to Rtnnd hem, In the midst of a New llngluud compaii having partaken of the hosplt allty or a New Hngbiud society, nnd en Joyed the delightful batuiuot, which hns been so elaborately and chnrmlngly set before inc. to stand here to address a Now Hngl.nid audience. Myself, a de scendant or those soithrs who llrst peo pled the rich forests and (low cry mead ows or that ralr land, so bonutlful In Its rich vcrdue that to Its discovert'! no name seemed uppropihtte. but that which Identlllcd It forever with the chaste epicon who snt upon the throne of Hnglnnd adorning It with her virgin loveliness. A descendant of the Ylrglan settlers, a native of Maryland, an ndoptetl son of Petinsj'lvanla. I say It scorns strange to mo to bo piesent mul to nddrcss so dis tinctively a New Hngland liodj. Hut It appears to me now not so Incongruous as It did ut tlrst thought Three rea sons have appeared for this Invitation which I consldei a mark, both of honor nnd esteem Piist, the custom of this socle t, which penults its piesldcnt or tin- enr to invite hU pastor whoever he mnv be 'or Pom whatevet source des eindtd tn p.trtlelpito In till the privi leges und enjo mints und but tlons or this emmlntntt enjojable Tnst That tills wns one reason 1 piesume Trom the iccognltlon or the pastoral re lation In the note containing my invita tion to speak. This note rend, as usual, for the most pint but at the llrst op poittmit whom respect and considera tion would allow camo Hie ominous unit significant little word "shoit." This word most nnturull assumes the pastoral re lation the lnltv hold, iui know, over the elcig Since Pastor Robinson wns chos en and ot claim d to pte.ich and minister to them by the little congregation at Scrooliv You ptfsldont bis had sad experience with tils pastor I fear, and dreads to see the tortj- pages of notes in his hand which he knows will liuvlt itbly devilopc Into 11I111 tj-llve p iges of mutter. The second mtson I believe to be the Hie t that In the association or the oilglnal thlitoeii stntes, woven out or the seittoied colonies by men who consid er! d Hie and wealth and happiness but or little weight In comparison with Justice und honot then existed and yet exists a bond of svmp.ith and loving attach ment dee pi r than tentlnient. stronger than woids and as lasting ns the tocky rlbbs and siml-heapoil shoies of our com mon Atlantic mast The thlnl mason as I conceive It. lbs In that pilnclple, dem onstiated In the blood of thousands of mnitvis In tin lite terrible civil vvai, the principle of unity and nitlonnllt, which rtcogr es neither North, South, Fast or Wes. in this great land or ours, the United States or Ameilea COMMON SYMPATHY r have denominated you New Ihiglnnd ers. I hive called mjseir tt Marylander. I would this evening recognize the Tact that these two names cannot place a bar between us, for we nie todiiv one in thought, one In interest, one In endeavoi, roiever associated as citizens or this great re public und bound rnst together by that generic and noble name Americans Now I have made much, as It desetved, of my Invitation to be present with you this evening. It was not for the per sonul element contained therein but as an Illustration of mv subject. I consid er It emlmrtlv vvorthv to lepieseiit one, the Hist Holts or the settlement or New Ihigland The same Mndlj spirit manltestlng lti If among you the de scendants or those biave settlers, which led Di Hossleres seemtarj or the Dutch colon nt Manhattan, to write "The tribes in tholi neighborhood (Plj mouth), have all the same customs as ours only thej tiro better conducted than ouis, be cause the Fngllsh give them the, exumple or bitter ordinances nnd 11 better lire" The same spirit that made the Indians Tlstiuantuin and Hobomok, their Inti mate and devoted fi lends, and the gmat Massasolt thilr life long all. Hut 1 icallze 1 must be "short" And while 1 have not that excellent girt vvhlrh brings smiles upon the race, usslsts di gestlon and smooths the rough-lined path ul IHe with merriment, jet I must pause a moment Just hem to s iv that ir the balance or my speech could be but pre sent! d to ou In the manner or the fol lowing Incident. I am verj sine It would lie more cntlitulile to ine und moi( 111 Jojable to ou What I am about to till J on Is ttue I know It must be Hue In -cause It was 1 elated to me bv 11 minister ol the tiospc 1. un adheient of c.ilviu. and a clc see nd nit or the Pilgrim Futheis, hlm s.lf nppio idling the 1 ml ot his c.irthlv pllgi image, vvi ll-strloken hi jiar, honot id and itspictid b all tin communlt. He sides this l have inysi ir seui one or the paitlclp.iuts alive nnd upon relating the stotj befom (oii sec it Is tin old stoiy like the Pilgrim Patheis) one or those piesent asseited that he had seen the othei dead or alive be did not sa So you cannot help seeing that what I shall say must be true IN ARKANSAS 111 tlio great state or Aikansns them am toads and i.ittli snakes One species or these toads Is especially tender and Juicy mid a tavorlte nrtlch of diet with tho iiittlesnakis This toad Is called the horned toad Not In cause of horns upon Its head but Horn the (act that It pos sesses a kind of tollni sei rated with hoiny materia! In npponiante somewhat like .1 elrcitlni saw After tais of sad expel leiice this toad has learned upon the approach of a i.tttlesunke to gather Itself together Into ns sm ill a compas as pos sible und lo permit the smike to swal low It with as little Inconvenience as pos sible As soon ns In Is allow od to to rnnln (pilot In the body of the snake the toad sllentlv lalses the points of his homy collar and bi simply turning his head rrom side to side, stws the snake In two and hops roith none rho worse roi his c xpeilonce Could the balance or mv sueech but thus saw Itself out nppenilng befoie you entlie nnd complete without further loss of time 1 um sum ou would enjoy It mom. and 1 would be greatly relieve el Alas It cannot be und I must suffer nnd you must forbear during tho con tinuance of the operation Men who could Write that they thanked Hod for all his iiieicbs but (speclullv for 'swieplng away great multitudes ot tho uitlvcs b the small pox, n little before, we went thither tlint he might make room ror us there " And also for "subduing those enoiieous opinions can led ovei rrom hence bj some or the parse ngers which roi a time In rested 0111 chinches' peine, but (through the goodness of Ood) by conference pi inching by a genual assembl of loirued men, magistrates timelv care, and, lastly, by Ood's own hand from heaven. In most lemnikable stiokes upon some of the chief fomonteis of them the matter came to sueh an lmppy conclusion that most or the seduced cume humbly and confessed their eirois in om public usBimblles und abide to this constant In the truth " Men who could so write must be uc know lodged to hnve put religion among the Hist fiults to be gathered upon . e rocky coast of New Ihigland. TIIH HIKHNNINO Driven fiom Oalnsborough und Sciooby by oppression and persecution. Fxlles In Los dun vkelug o it a haul mid Hit Un ex istence) among strangers, these nun had como to the new woild to secure safety and spiritual freedom to mishlp Uod In their own way. And IT that way smacked more of lliii law than of the (lospel more of the old. than or tho New Fesiament who dnro rise up nnd lilamo them who dared suoli perils ns they, and gavo up life Kselt lo preserve pure and iinttnmnuled their personnl and Individual right to servo Ood according to their lights. Whllo we may deplore the narrow spirit which caused them to act In the very manner which they despised In others, nnd from the Inlluence of which they lied, all men must honor nnd revere their sincerity and Intenscness or devotion to Uod. which Is so poorly reflected In the spirit or this tiny. Well wrote quaint George Herbert, or the old Kngllsh land In the davs pre e ceding the Pilgrim set tlement, thut "Religion stands on tlptoo In our land, ready to pass to the Ameri can strand." 1 think the old sow dlstnuce lends en chantment to Hie view Is nearly ttlwnys true Many whom we accept hs saints today would have made hut poor rrlends to live with. These men whom we gnth ci rrom rnr and near to honor tonight were not greater in the mass than their descendants. It Is absurd ror us to bo supinely wishing we might bo like our forefathers when what Is nt tiled Is not abllltv or oppotttinltv but onlv well and Incentive The Hi volution und the civil vvai brought out Just such characteristic s or seir-socilllce devotion to a cause, and will to prosecute that cause through on r w helming suffering and distress to ti .1110 cessful Issue. Then fore among the first fruits of New Hngland life. 1 must not omit that sweet nnd universally hum m falling of love Much of tin hlstoiy of the limes wn celebrate tonight Is supplied by the lot tors nr affectionate lomenibtnnrc, wilt ten to devoted wives lelt behind In Ihe old country. The Justly celebriitod court ship of Miles StHndlsh occurlng but a short time after the dnth of his first beloved wife opens up to our vle.w oven upon that desolate coast unci iiinld those savage wilds the human side or the stnl wait, stern-hearted Puiltaus And whin moie sweetly human than that punt flame portriiMd by tiudition and poesj which ov ft coming all v.otuanly reserve und restraint, bloke forth upon the ears of the astonished John Allien, from the lips or the ib mure Pilscllla. In the woids "Why don't ou speak lor yourself. John''' The learned and knlghtl Wln thiop so deeply Imbued with the serious ness of life as to exclude nil levity or mi 1 1 Inn nt ft om ixlstince railed not. when UH ut the eurlv ago or tvventv elght a second lime widowed, to tnkn unto himself n sweet, Puritan maiden to add to the sol Ions and self-s.icrllli -lng nature of his lire a conki:di:p.ati:'s HLrNDi:n Hut I am Veiv sum tlie Pilgrim Fath ers, In their mart) lng -nil giving In marriage, novel committed tlio blunder which ll is related Clem ml Dwell, of tho Confederate Ami, contluunllj made af ter his marriage The general was an old li.ieheloi. of long standing finally. Into In lire, he surrendered and gave up his swoid to a widow a Mrs. Hrown The gcneinl vv.it so great a stranger to tho marriage state that he could not liilte convince himself tlint IT Mrs Hrown worn really Mrs. Hrown. that Mis Hrown ever became .Mrs Dwell. As a lesult nf this confusion. 011 Introduc ing his wife to anvone, he alwas pre sented her as "this Is tnv wife, Mis. Hrown" So In religion and mornlltv. us In love and war, our ancestors weio men. stiong In the Integrity of their purpose It Is true Ood-ftnrlng nnd brave hem ted, but men whoso like we may si n again, and whose sterling worth Is not f too perfect to be Imitated bj their de scendants You see, gentlemen how strong the ruling habit Is when the clergyman cannot forbear preaching even nmid theso surroundings, where onl the laltv are supposed to have this privilege, and I forbear lest ou tn.i not ngiee with mo that I can well voice the weirds of Pas tor Koblnson, who once wrote a friend nspectlng long sermons his custom was always to close after speaking u couple of hours "I have many times drawn so cliy that 1 could not well speak anv longer foi want of mnttcr. but I could ever speak as short as 1 would" P. P. J I! No 1ID. It was no poetic exaggeiatlon which Inspired the words itspectlng the PIv iiiouth settlors that "God had sifted three Kingdoms to tlnd the wheat oi this plant ing. Then sifted the wheat as the liv ing seed of .1 nation" (Longfellow) In less than twenty years after th landing of the Pilgrims fiom the Maj tlower notwithstanding the absolutely uncultivated churaotet of the counti. the hardships encountered In cllmute anel In close contact of savage animals, and et mom b.ivage men, In spite of cold, famine death all united In an apparent endeavor to desttoy them, lu less than twenty years we Hnd these onergetlo men have rounded a school of learning, A Pl'HITAN LP.TTUU One of them in wilting to Knglnnd In 1U0 glvis his friends the follow lng Inform ation: "After Ood had carried us sare to New Dnglnud and we had bullded our houses, piovldtd necessaries ror our live lihood, reined convenb lit places ror God's worship and settled the civil government, olio or the next things we longed ror nnd looketl after was to advance learn ing and to ptipetuate ll to posterln . di ending tn leuve an Illiterate mlnb'try to the thitrchc's, when 0111 present mili ums sh ill lie In the dust.' To this end the general eouit or Mas sachusetts Ilav voted 400 lu I!!- and in 1(j!s John Halyards' will devoted one-hull1 ur his estate amounting to about 4'Vi, to the establishment or 11 college for 1 mining mid educating the minds of jouug men From this wise foieslght and humbl" beginning has giown. In tvv.i ceutuiiis n ml 11 half that marnlllcent in stitution healing tin nume ur Its (list humble donor or which this wholo gnat, niunlij is pmud and whoso name Is lo nil Hie win Id the svnonym or the most udvniieid learning und highest culturi llinvaid unlviislty ll.nl our forefutli ois been p issi ssi d of that splilt we hear so often expressed tndnj In the wotds lei 1 vely gene latlon take cute of Itselt, learn ing would httvi seal co iturcd lit t myitlo crowned hind among us, and I could not point tonight to Harvard and Yale and Fnlon as llrst Hulls or New Fuglaml life Gentlemen 1 have finished. Not "fiom want or matte 1," like our ancestor. John Robinson, but that, like him, "I could ulwujs speak as shoit as 1 would." Ml. Isiuel's .was the last address of the evening It was a thoughtful and llttlng close with an udequato icligloiis sentiment to an evening which had not ovei burdened with such tender thought. The dlniiei coin lu led with Piesltlent. eVauen'B announcement that nil was I'nlshetl and onlv "g-ood nights" n tiialneel to he said. It wns U'.HO o'clock when the gath ilng was dismissed. IM'CKVlLI.i:. The enijilojcs of tho Forest Coal conipan wero paid jesterduy. Calvin F. Peck, who has boeu seti ously ill, Is much imptoved. and h friends entertain hopes of his tecov et y. Thomas Coates. of Yatesvlllo, wns a callei In town e.steiday. Mr nnd Mrs. John Slmpklns mid smi Howatd, of Haw Icy. are visiting, nt the home of his hi other, Itev. and Mm. S. C. Slmpklns Juines Williams was tho lucky one who diew the dooi ptUe, No 105, tit tho Wilson Flm eonipiHiy'H fair last Monday evening Mr. and Mrs. Fled. Peck, of Gieon Illdge. are In attendance at tho bed sldo of the formers father, Calvin F. Peck. Otlental Star lodife, Free and Ac cepted Masons, elected the following oflleeis lust evening for the otisitlng Mu.sc.nic lent. Wuishlpful muster. Asa M. Scon;, senior warden. William .1. Suedlcot; Junlot warden, John II Klnb.ick; secretin)', IMwIn II, Hitter treasurer. John I). Peck; representa tive to Grand lodge, Genigo A. HeJI. trusteos. Juines V. Smith. Joseph Ui Hell, Windsor Fostci.
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