Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1845-03-14

race, and within herself will find resources equal 10
any enierprlse-to any result.
The Pilgrim spirit has no, fled. II still survlves.-
II anlinates the children. i, will live through grner.
atoms yet to come. 1t is the genius which prcsides
over the dcsiincs Of the land. One OF the living ue-
scendants Of the fathers thus writes No otner
form of religion was known, IN tins land OF me fI-
griis, unil the gfcai principles of The American .sys-
TEN were developed and established here by onr Puii'
tan forefaihers. The truth is, they lived for no ordI'
narv purpose. They were tho most remarkable men
which the world has ever produced. They lived Tor
a nobler end. for a higher destiny than any that have
ever lived. These are the men 10 whom New Eng
land owes her religion, with all the blessings, social,
civil and literary, that follow in lis train. These are
the venerable men whose blood siUl howsln our VEINS
and into whose inheritance we have entered. Peace
to their silent shades Fragrant rs the breath OF
morning be their memory! The winds OF tive cen
turtles have swept over Their graves.
The cifncing hand Of time la well nigh worn away
the p~erishahle Monuments which may have market
the spot where sleeps their honorcd dust. But INC
still livc. They live in the immortal principles which
they iaight-in the enduring institutions which they
established. They live in the remembrance of n giate'
fnl pcsteriv and they will live on through all time,
in the gratitude OF unborn generations, who, IN long
succession. shall rise up and cal. them blessed. Ana
shall we, " who keep the graves, and bear the names
and boast the blood, of those men, disown then
Church. or cast ont ms evil and rcvile their religion Z!
No--by the memory Of those noble men, by Their hol,
lives, by then heavenly principles, their snc'ed lnstl
tutIbns-hv tie s1 tanning strength winch thry them
serves ARE SIN giving 10 or own fVtlpnli hliu W tut
great cause Of civil aud religious liberty II rouchoul
the earth let US never give M. the religion OF ou'
foreinIhers. No-ncver, never"
Such are the lofty principles and sentiments which
possess the bosoms of The descendants OF the Pilgrims
In these we have at once the promise aud the rlcdg'
of American greatness aud enterprl' e. America Il
now strong in moral power. and so long as sh'
hroa'kcs the spirit of the religion of The Pilgrims, w
hone well, not only for the United States, but TO
Chris'cndom and the word. In the great coniiic
which is now opening on The Church Of God, she vii
take Il @ from, of the battle. In the effort to compass
aud snblnrntc the world to the Gross. she will pres
into every field of action. Her eagle stands with IN
folded pinions, ready io take her hinht 10 the ends q
the earth, and in their upward, onward passage, Il
scatter blessings richer aud more precious than drop
fom the wings of the morning. MAY those plnion
never be folded ill the whole world, renovated an'
purified, shall repose beneath the shadow of etcrna
love, waiting for the glorious liberty of the children q
Grd!
We havr finished this imperfect sketch of the Phi
grim Fathers. Oar hearts exu't in the fact that ,hes
honpred aud now saintcd men, the Pilgrim Father:
nre still represented on the earth. May their spirit I
s"ven-fpld energy descend aud rest ON the who
Church, and nj no distant day may the Church EN-
brace the universal family of man!