The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-23
Anniversary Exercises In the Church OF the
Messiah.

The New England Society met on Monday night In tho
Church Of the Messiah (Rov. Dr osgcods Broadway 10
celebrate the landing Of tho Pilgrim Fathers. The church
crowded TO It's utmost capacity. The preliminary
services commenced with a voluntary the organ;
after which an ode" The landing of Columbus" music
by Mozart-was sung In admirable STYLE the words ol
which commenced as Follows
Awake the sounds OF glory,
over the ocean rolling
Tho heavens our way controlling,
We strike the Western shore.
Wake all the sounds Of glory;
New rivers, mountains,
New forests, fountains
We strike the Western shore.
This wns succeeded by prayer by Rev DIR. Osgood
and quartetie and chorus-Prais the Lord by the
choir.
The chair was filed by the President Of the society,
benjamin W. Bonney. On the dais around him the
other officers OF the society:w VILLAIN Curtis Noycs IL d.
william NJ. Evsrs, LID, Henry A. Hurburt, willard
Parker, NJ H., silas X Everett Frederick g. Thurston
Moses H. Grinnel Charles A. stetson, W. ". Brakeman,
N. H., Ie Grand lockwood, $. n, sebbins, George s.
Stephenson, T. d. Morgan, Charles T. Becbe, Luther D.
wyman and !. +. Hubbard.
The President introduced the orator of the occasion
Rev. r. sofrs, Jr D. n of Brcoklyn who proceeded
deliver the oraon He said Il at they met 10 pcr
form work Of a piey a. representatives Of that por
lay fresh garland the graves Of their fathers
The most worthy tribute which they could pay their
ancestors 70 lead life accordance with their
spirit However wide dominion and civilization
though extended 10 the shores Of the Pacific and the far
Southwest our work was still but the perfection Of theirs
Tho controlling idea OF the Purtans spir
us supremacy in the state they founded and they erred
he admitted they did, not from pride pass
but from anxiety 10 push to extremes principle
which was pure and noble II their life was not the rarcs,
and noblest conceive he thought that least
superior 70 anything which preceded H. In justification
Of the intolerance and rigid opinions Of the Purans he
urged the OF their enterprise and character Of
the country in which they undertook 10 form colony
Their enterprise hazardous that Of the sailors OF
Columbus They landed 10 wooded desert surrounded
by savagcs They not driven from their native ing
land by any ed,c. of banshment They camo voluntarily
Ia md n hat bq
respecting and godfcaring and in which
grand and inspiring confidence in God might dwell
m the hearts Of the people And taking this view
Of their purposes could easily pardon their
and seventies. The furitans thought that state shouId
grow slowly and deveope itself from within rather than
seek rapid physical devcopement from external forces
and for this they had been censured. Their prevailing
idca was TO make the family The seminary from which
the disciplined wills of the people should go forth 20
govern the state. In the family all the functions tbc
state should be fulfilled and out Of this vgor grew much
Of the intolerance which We could not DENY that thew
practised but after all the principle was right In the
early days q Plymouth the whole male population
legislators but as the population increased the represen
taye system adopted. The plan " the earliest
Puritan government not, in the popular view demo
cratic for is Governors were real governors aud its
legislators rcyercuced the fathers OF the State
government so firmly knit thf the Purtans, for Il
was ordained q make perfect the spiritual e which
isted in the family. They did not ambition extend their
territory Even the art Of shpbuldlngf which now
forms 20 conspicuous feature in the hftory II the
ermen needed The rude crafts IN whirx they exercised
their occupations. Their linen, and wooen and iron goods
they preferred 10 manufacture at home rather than 10 "a
abroad for them. However we might differ from them
he thought that could not but perceive the unity OF
their plans Another leading idea the Purtans was that
they bound 10 spread the gospel among the savage
TO establish this continent pure and religious com
mouvealth This idea manifested In the declarations
Of winthrop and Hggnson They resolved that the
church should be prominent 10 all things and for
hs that Harvard College was established and that free
schools and gram mar selUols were planted every
parish was Tor this that they left their old homes the
old churches endeared TO them by the associations Of their
boyhoos the river banks wheron they had won their
brides; the universities which had trained them-left
paradise OF plenty for wilderness ~ want 10 rear up
Sates whose fruits should daT reward them for all
their laoors 1 not for them and their pcrices
We would have New England, no lJefahcrs day 10
celebrate. (Appiause) Our national Independence was
not the sole product OF their ahors the growth of
the mighty West The iath and spirit of the rlgrn