The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-23
LANDING OF THE Pill oRIMS.

last evening.
rhs proceedings were opened BY . volua' on the
organ, executed by Mr.. w. A KING. Then followed the
anthem, sung In sphadd style
30 Lord our governor, how excellent thy name in Al
the world 20
Prayer was then said by Rev Dr. CuxKvss after which
the fello wing anthem sung:
Jehovah's praise In high immortal strains
Rssound 70 heavens, IN all your blssful plains;
His glorious pc yer, o radiant sun dis play
Far "a thy vital beams oiffuse the day.
Thou, silver moon, array q in softer light
Recount his wonders to the iiss'ning bisht;
Let AL thy ghttering train attendant wait.
And every star his Makers repeat
re glorious angels, tune the Iaptured lay
Through the fair mansloas OF eternal day.
BIS prAife let all the shining ranks proclaim,
And teach tie dis tant worlds your Makers name,
Bright with the spleuoor Of mia dazzling rays,
Exalted realms OF Joy rsEect mis- praise.
The Rsv. Dr. MAKK HorKrs the orator Of the evening
then intro suced Aad proceeded to deliver his era
lion. Hs said
Tho celebrations and anusensnts Of people indicate
their character popuaos whose feelings actuatsd
BY monarchy and superstition require to be amused
They have nothing TO DO but their holy days
into hotdsys-to Be amused and anaged like grown up
children On the sthsr hAAd, self Cover people i'll
create an atmosphere sitting to all pagsanry and
merry Their 0ays viii be consscrated progress Of
the peaceful are, to the OF the Pilgrim
Fathers. What associations gsrnered up In
those words, Pilgrim Fathers ! Like Abrahsm
they went out in simple faith, not knowing whsrs
their chief object God h made evident It was only
through long internal struggles that they, like the
early Christians, were ietui TO forake their church
Bota placed socisly under ban regarded IS
the hlth OF the earth and this off securing of all things
Paul could saw ~ know in rhola | bsIisveiH-JsSn
Henry could say II saw truth more clss. and
undouotsd than th. Tor which stand and could add
would ndee. yet live With you to help you to
The yoke" Ant if the ,oste had had wife ana child
ran, he could hardy have comSi,ted them with
faith TO the promises ana trust taan did John Hs,ry
such their pit. Persons OF all condslo and all
sges thus sustained Nor they than the
early Christians, sour bgoted psrsscut
Ing Our fathers had no mad rage against nodsnsivs
ooservances-a as Hume says-mcre than Paul had When
asre.t principle is in question matters little what
brings the conte We thans God have been
men who rather than ray sixpsnny tax would set
continent on Ore Both parties Understood we'll what
they conien6ing for and the Pilgrims had submit
ted 10 sarpices and tppets this continent would har
had different history If We consider these feeble bs
world has seen nothing like 1t. Il accept miracles,
what seal has Gcd et for the early Christian which he
has sithhelo from Pilgrim Fathers? some of them
teen, the best personalities Of the Apostles Our
athers in coming 10 this country pilgrims OF the
Abrsh' m was, because iheJ sousat city which haa
foundation The Pilgrims Also fathers. Far beyond
the founders Of any other States Goes this title
Father, AID founders of mishty empire upon
the earth Their immediate gift 10 the world
New England rhe general type Of character which
they established, scc.pt and acknowledge ours.
This Land of New England love We love scenery,
green mountains Transparent streams taste
ful villages, her district school houses, and her quiet
Sabbatbs We glory in her people their economy, their
raj for law in its fscred oms. Nor
dead to the peculiartes of tho whiting Yankee he
eIsly wnittes his aid no 90 boast that he is
going to cut ell creation out who likely to do iu
Daughter But # this had been all this would not
be celebrated SIS II has Teen. We dc bot honor them
tives OF the worlds freedom Time viii permit only
inquire whether be such unity in the history Of
whole subseryisnt great 1t has besn So
trough we nay not recognize it, We may trace 1t in ali
the circular movements OF thu works of Sod The earth
stands now ard the planets revoIve and the
they did six thousand years ago. 50 with the
successive generations Of men sh3 there Tot be the
unity in the flow Of timer Sha there BIS thought
purpose Of God gvicg direction tie movement Of
the asesf We believe thsIe will bs such unity, and if
So th' in that ard 10 that alone VIII De FOUND the key
70 al tory We Eext inquire what that principle is
1t cannot DO the religious freedom much boassd Of,
m,y exist Were there religion Toe
tIal principle Of this snt We suppose to be the
unity Of God wit For this The world stands. For
This religious freedom will b. needed. IL has bssn
q freedom the abstract for dom
the sIke Of icn that has walked through burning
furnaces and into the lions den. II the reli-
gicus nature be central in man, 1t Is that for
which preparations are being made Ia his history.
This syst m in each man ia 10 the unfolding Of his
ing SID cevlopement and improvement Of the SO
the )ove o. God and mth precsy that the capacity
individual reaches his full oevelosemsns That the
ga eIsmeLt scentrAl is evident from the necessity
OF ths principle to the geat improvement snd dsveope
ment Of the Hence can DO nothing SO fatal
TO the npruvenen Of the to lower the sentiment
Of religion Hence no heather IA lon can houIish and
be perIetuateo. II We search history for the cause
OF the most earnest movements II the past, we
viii resch the same corclusion. How else but
by religion could tie Jews have preserved their
szclusirs pscularitie, for four thousand years
How slse could Mshouets have existed till tho pre-
seuf How elss could Europe been preciptsted
in the crusade against Asia These the great
eLts in the of hiso j. CT has the iEh uencs OF
lqou bean lees when il was not the dsrnin.ut element
has been really the cement Of all dee potisms 1t has
bean the art Of kingsrsi 10 make religion support des
potisn Prote 10 antagonists to the spirit
HI
freedom apc lead to It, II Is the preseccs OF this reh
giors freedom ia Turkey that Nicholas dress 1t would
appear then that wherS plae az power have been deli
terstsIy sought the TO obtsa
t. religious the growth of this in freedom
which wrought In ishsrs. and came dorm through
them to We are not OF those who disclsim anti
putty. We believe in the perpetual presence OF the
spirit OF Gcd as OF the shekinsa IN bis church,
fathers stood worthy of those Of Old who
wandered in cser and caves OF the earth In this line
would st,no Our next inquiry il, whsther the Divine
expression must find its realization AID counterpart 10
this ceptral sentiment Of religion We think Society
built up Like indiy iapA The elaborate wisdom OF
ssges will descend int every Of he heart, AMI
will eiimr ate thought aac noble action Taers
impression that tbs virtues OF our fIhera ware stern
but from those mountain tcps comes the beauty
which looks up from its base Bal.y comes from God
be that beauty should not procsed from all
God likeness From Him proceeds the smile that makes
the volet glad Neither Christ biz gostlss thought
OF arthey knew would after the institutions
through the religious element evident Church aud
state become pert OF the beautiful unity in the D-
vine plan ana they are per1ec- ann from uoh just In
proportion they produce mat greatness Ind holiness
What, we ask, Is Institutions both CIVIL and religious
pervaded by the freedom flexible TO the demands Of nd
yiaual growth Especially dc demand, in the name
of and Cod religious We demand free
do Of speech, mot only In the church bat IN the stree
Some applause And The day has not yet come, hank
God when that liberty be taken from as Opposed
10 and flexible stems those which have an
ED in themselves TO which the Individual is bent, and
squared and made sub-ervent. They give full scope 70
the ssnsuous and sensual nature They patronize art
and music but theJ require standing armies TO keep
them in order the sugar plom does not keep them
quiet they the whip They knos thas even where
when the Louis Philippe, the Louis Napoleon or
th Santa Anna, that Ia to be, CONES thsy must
relapse In to archy. There IL no book which
they hate as they do the bibls. They can resist
everything but the sword Of the sp which the word
OF Cod STILL wien system is destroyed another will
hsen- fr.uu