New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-03
SPEECH OF THE REV. DIR. ADAMS.

/ deem 1t special pleasure and honor that /
have been requested in the name Of the Christian peo
e Of this country. 10 address few words OF welcome
70 those who have gathered TO this Conference, aud
especially those from the other side Of the So OF
you have long been known TO many of as personal
friends and correspondents Others have been CRATE
fully known by their works Of scholarship and philan-
zhropy. The author Of good book is true cOsmOpo-
lite. He is at home in every part Of the world. The
suthor q Christian hymn sung in all the churches Of
ChrstendOm, the originator OF q new and successful
scheme Of Christian philanthropy, is welcome,
as friend, wherever there Christians
20 worship and to work. Pleasant, indeed,
to grasp by the hand and look upon the
faces Of men with whom have long had unspoken
sympathy through the books which lie upon tables
Coming to such occasion as this and on such
Grand Of you be strangers and foreigners"
all are elOwcitiZens OF the Saints and of the house
mold Of Cod As such we greet you with cordial alice
ZION. We bless you in the name OF the Lord, and well
come you most heartily to our country, churches,
our pulpits, and our homes. This welcoming the
part OF Christians in the New World TO visitors
coming from the Old World marks advanced
epoch IN the great drama Of human history.
The two hemspheres separated in space by the long
snd numbering pillows Of the Western Ocean, but as
tine advances we 'see more and more how they are
unified in the great plan and purpose OF the Almighty.
Neither is complete in itself The Old abides not alone.
II prOOngs and perpetuates itself In the New The New
IS not sudden and independent creation, like tabled
Deos stand still the theater OF an extempO-
raneous civilization. 1t is the growth, expansion and
continuance Of the Old. You cannot travel on this
western Continent without noticing that European
history has noched itself into very soil and ohrOni
red its several stages Of development the names Of our
states and cities and towns and universities. Those who
come to from France will recall and read the history
OF their native land in scattered all over this
country from the St. Lawrence the north with that
Mount OF Vision known to in English pronunca-
stOn as Montreal away through lake and TO st.
louis and NewO Orleans and Carolina. where the Hugue
,oots left the name Of their weak and bieoted King
Charles TX. Those who 20 US from Holland, if
they miss dyke and fog, surely cannot feel them
eelves far from home in this City Of NewAmsterdam
Iand on the banks Of that river discovered by Dutch
enterprise. Germany IL she did not begin her migra
sjeuN 90 others, is making up for delay in
1hs Volume of population, like that which
centuries ago 0yerran the south OF Europe spreading
her language and ne industry this vast domain
and we welcome, to-day her representatives 70 this
City Of NewYOrk the fourth largest German city in
ahe world. As for Great Britain those household names
of states, counties, cities, and cOleges-New-York,
EewJersey, PENNSYLVANIA, Virginia Essex, Mlddesex
Suffolk, Berkshire, Boston, Cambridge, Plymouth Dor
chester. Harvard, Yale Dartmouth, William and Mary
afford easy proof that this Western World with its free
governments its institutions Of learning and religion is
ut the outgrowth and result OF the successive throes,
struggles and revolutions OF the old ancestral isle AS
she OF parents given 10 their children and
their chdrens children, the names OF the martyrs
the patriots scholars the statesmen the good and
the great Of former ages worthy TO be held in ever
1astng remembrance are reproduced and perpetuated
through the length and the breadth Of this New World
There was time 1--WE trust 1t has passed forever when
certain writer's 10 a spirit Of Jealousy disrust ana hate'
were accustomed refer TO us as raw ana recent
people," without history or ancestry as II we were dS
graceful foundlings blushing at the bend OF ieglmacy
IN our coat armOraL" Can children lose their lineage
NV n,srsnon9 DO we part with birthrght pedigree
when we cross the seal Ii there be virtue in any patro-
nymic claim have not indefeasi0e right IN the
fame Of every patriot scholar and phianthrops OF the
Old World as any who st tread the ancestral acres
II was the conceit Of classic mythology that the Muse
OF History was the daughter Of JOve. The Thought thus
suggested we put into better Christian phrase beneV
ing in the unity OF Gods purpose In Providence.
rbat which we receive from Bibles has been wrought
out IN phlosophic form by schegel and Miller Lookat
detained PARTS Of the drama-at the HuguenOts OF
France exed massacred after the revocation OF the
edict OF Nantes-at the Holanders, haired by
Philip Of spain-at the Nonconformists OF En-
Gland during the Flye-Me Act Of the stuarts, and
Won vould be bewdered and depressed as If there were
no equitable power 10 protect and reward virtue But
these are only parts OF Gods ways 10 Judge mem
a. N they we're independent and insulated events Is as III
one gazing on some eddy backwater In the Mlsss-
sippi should infer that the mighty river were running
upward and backward Sweep wider Ylslon MAKE
more cOpiOus induction wait and LOOK again. cross he
whittier the brave exlies Detook t1enSIE ,,
erty the churches the schools the hdppy hVnes NSu
have sprung up IN this New World and behold te Nhe-
cation OF Divine equity progress anu ue
veOpmeut in the magnnceDt plan Vi Ois sI
Providence Cohgny and Caiv9 GG moI c5 s
which they zeaOusly patronzedi Dut I1hkny au9
CALVIN and Knox and Cranmer and Ridley Hooper anu
Latimer living and working upon our SOL to-day;
John Hampden, whose society Richard BAKER salu
would give charm 10 the Everlasting Rest OF the
patriot statesman walks abroad IN our Own land. Inc
" good old cause" for which Algernon sidney prayed
with his last breath on Tower Hill in London did not
perish when that noble martyr was beheaded We ask
yOu coming from lhe old world, 10 see and Judge for
Yourselves the result and ruage OF great events which
carry all back 70 the cell of Argyll tho scanod OF
Russell. the grave OF Nckhe, ana the ashes OF huss,
m has verify seemed TO Us that not much We as
fbey that were welcoming you these shores that the
very was full oil tho marty Isprlls OF the mkIt4
dead our common ancestry, bidding u.s. IN our blessed
lin nrayers aud agOnies, Ia free religion, a free
bible free church, free schools free press-a gori-
- is,r, If me mast the present-he seed-cOrn and
che roots beyond the IN the Od-the harvest and the
t - - onr conference il neither political nor
.eiesa.ical We come not 10 discuss forms OF church
organization government or amp ss "S 6 Is eA-
our CHRISTIAN unity Divers are the naus when we
bsar both 70 countries ana Irist L1th
FRENCH swiss Dutch English, SCOTCH Hlsu' i."'netdn
Reformed Anglican, PresDy tcrlan Ep's.Op,a
t.t BAPTIST Independent-Dut We usslo ud cirl ~
snow fhst amid ali this variety OF form anu Vlol-
stances there is a real unity OF faith ana iio cntn
according % the familiar eAlie,sUn tbnych and The
communion OF Saints , - A. ,,ortd there
T. inanlfest longing for nOn OF vislDie ui'S
aud Germany have DUtn gwen us ne" "oL,. ana
II ns desire for cosmopolitan unlty 49, from All
,xpostions are heid ia winch fepresehlalIlo 49, aud
countries meet 20 compare ana lnttIchnbo ,,fts ,f
commodities. These are signs WHICH IN III H. 80 of
grass und sprigs oil red berries which eauBI tS bc
Columbus from the masthead OF the fIhd' I'm
vicinity Of land We may be mistaken n our tooS in
iDg: log banks may be- taken for Ahai Dub We huo"
what direction land lies, ana We hust san ga
~ ,se reach H. We urctenQ%nOt 10 create unty-cti-
tainy not uy artificial lgatures, Dnl 10 tst5 10 ~