New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-11-04

Efwari ~ Archibald, Mhham T. Curtis
r. A p. Barnard, ChntlGs ~ Dap'
JIcnr1- " DcilnWs. Noah DAVIS,
Inh,, ip'oI,C Christian T. Detmod,
Robert r Booth. Henry DRAPER
ycePzo Po itsc. c ls%Esy V ?'i FISH,
j. l.. Burliugame. Davlu i'hiley fieiu'
William Alien Buler, ldrhc g. d"ih,
Roswell ID. Hitchcock, MhieihN i.,iu'
Morris X JesUp, IhHip IcShh
charles Isuicr CT Dcrt II. Spcir,
OfhnipI q Marsh Richard \. StUris,
! prrnont Morgsp Charles G. Tiffany,
Stc,,ro T. Nash William VI. Taylor.
Samuel OsCo,d George y. Warny, Jr.,
Uenrv T. Policy Edward a. Ha5hburu.
James W. PiGchCt.
Aside from the Dean, the guests OF the occasion Weie
Genyrs Crave Editor of Gerald Harper, OF EnSlahu
Macmillan julius h. Scelyc,
Dr.. Theodore D. Woolsey, GOV. 4eorEe j. hcCieiinn'
Goo - FIsher Geo. W. Guilds
Peter CooDer Charles Dudley Warner.
The tables were arranged IA tho art gallery on the
second floor and were placed so as to form hollow
souare Oppositc the entrance tn tie room sat the
Rev Dr. Adams who presided, while Dean Stanley occ'l-
piod the seat OF honor at his right.
When DR. Washburn had invoked blessing the course
were served The speech-makiIE was begun by the
presiding officer, the Rev. DR.. Adams, who said:
GENTLEMEN: Requested by your Committee OF Ar
ngtmCnts preside Oh this occasion, lew NoIuS onp
can be ected of me- by way OF preface 70 to n
gistcd guest greatly fear that he has become weary
with nearing tho words often repeated That al az
happy, iOc various reasons 10 greet nun ON s p
the sea He stands in need OF our compassion frrre
cued city lie nCcs To Hnotitr fuftuilhto) NC
accompanied by his medical Attendant H. Is peasah ~
To welcome on tnis occasion ms friends ana an
IONS Dr. Harper Mr.. Grove. the latter wei known
10 nil scholars from his contributions 10 Biblical geog
rApby and other literary and edliOriu services. ~ w
Lain classics the word hOsiS sgniicd foreigner
and an enemy and perc0ri GtOr conveyed the douOr
OF traveller and an alien. inousd theso Ithus
have 81 from foreign countries, 1y th!s uDe
they cannot regard themselyescertliny they are not
rrgrieI by usas foreigners. but fellow
citizens with the household OF iaitn nnd letters.
To alUpt tho happy expression ~ Mr. Gladstone IN hs
recent article in me North Ameredn Re.ur, they hnd
themselves among their &" Kin bcyond -ca:"
MANY here present born this New World. have en-
joyoG the peculiar pleasure OF ylsns tue Oh World
with rs accumulated wealth OF historic memories anu
associations II may not be 50 easy Tor me 10 conprc-
hcnd the feelings VI one bornln The Old NOrld ana fah
iar with edices, customs which were verrf-
able for age before tins continent was discovered WHEN
visiting for TIE first time country so new as Ours we
may una gno somewhat confused blending Of what Is
familiar vain what Is strange anu novel our irlehd
landed in Boston. suffolk County We'll Boston ana SUI
folk are familiar sounds 10 every Engi'shnan Visiting
saleu-f hat name did not recall an ancient Gity,
famliar TO his o:enta Studies any u1 h "a,r ~
Essex, Of which II Is the capital mnst nave reminded
blu o. something nrarer nA own nom, caaDt'se
uncOuth, aud barbarons names 10 English ears
cesIra namosok e in Tue Isle OF Wight Hartford next
his route differs from the old HEREFORD OF England only
m The instrumentation OF q letter aud IN Yale College at
New HAVEN he encounters the name and beneaction OF
good Bishop Berkeley Or the brief route from Boston
h IN how intimate the hlStorc-I muy say the do
mostlc-Ielations between The two Engands-ihe ola
saris Who need A. mncn the benefit winch comes from
recalling what ancient and hN,d aud venerable AS the
inhabitants OF these Western shores IL We open 20
the being inn ted In style Of thought
and speech apology may be entered because OF the
rush and rapidly Of those events anna wLch our young
life has been nurtured and tue astonishing growth OF
our territory aud population bat when excessive sell
co,uI.c.ncy takes form OF Contempt for the past
the OLD the historic as IT. Ike Love IN Asophanes We
had been ms ehed from the egg Oh Night ana M DelEre
the prepOsterous folly by being reminded Of our indeD
edness TO our " Kin beyond sea-"
r. ere lies before Us breakfast card vignette
OF West Abbey visit 10 Westminster Abbey Is
IA sure audOtc 10 the mschiryous notion ot an inpro-
vised inderendcnce Tue history OF the Minister Is, ~
one sense. the history OF England Here her kings and
queens have been crowned and buried The ases OF the
mighty desdpoets. HISTORIANS schOiars Julsts states
mon, philosophers, artists phanthrOpsts and dvInes
ia solemn arches. Tner ashes, Mr.. Dean are
under your personal keeping but their spirit
or on this continent. WHO would not have been other
than he now is but ot those good aud great men who
buried there lG0 years, but there are those within This
hall who daily feel their obligations 10 ais noble
In reforming taste, marrying wit ana morality, long
divorced, by the charms OF his pure and graceful Eng
lsh. see BEFORE me at ls table judges IN our courts
wisdom which thoy have inherited from that oracle OF
law and pattern OF virtue hVru Msnsneia Tno well
Hall 10 Ds grave III Westminster Abbey. The bodies
the monuments Of Granville SHARP. William Wilber
force. Thackeray and Macsulay are in the same
mnts0leum but their protests againsI African slavery
reappnsred In inc phantrophlss Of our own continent
The BODY OF Cromwell was indeed eIhumed FROM nis
grave In Westminster Abbey and hanged at Iybun but
living in America to-day. Cbathan's eoquence plead.
ing before the British senate Tor the rights ami liberties
of The American colonies did not die when lie was I'm.
tered M the North Triangle Of Abbey IL
IN Patrick Henry aud Daniel W. Dstcr and throbs In
veins OF every American deserving the name OF states
One other thought connected with that glorious
Abbey 10 express because t suggests refer
10 catholic munitions or guesl aud friend
Macaulay describes Wesminstef Abbey as that temple
Of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of
tyentV generations lie buried "a thonoht when "a
embodied ia those lines OF SCOTS " Marmon:"
Here-tamng thought 10 human PRIDE
annie ~ suafa alpaD II. ht
Twill trickie to his rivals bier
Der PItrs the mournfu requiens sound
And foxs shall the notes rebound.
Tie sOleinn echo seems 70 cry
Here let their discord VITA them die
Speak not for these q separate doom,
Whom Fate made brothers IN tho tomb"
The lesson In such preseuce is that ut what was
local anu c,su and c1trnslc and temporary drop of
ana dsaprea from names and characters; what IL truly
good ana great remains 10 be- admired ana commcmo
rated. You stand III tho south transept by the tomb
So SON o%ec rcced oeos tn1 Kat T John
cOursiDg down his scanned and furrOwcd cheeks
Tho spacious Ornament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky"
And Will pass 10 tho monument OF Isaac Watts the
Dssenter, in the south aisle OF the choir ana viii read
~ The Heavens declare Thy glory, Lord,
And let us If discover any angle of d,ver
gence between the two, separated us they were av
and ecclesiastical connections. LEI us rpeat fne cy
pertinent with Isaac Barrow and John Wescy. princes
possible go to the grave OF South, who distilled In his
day the very -, gall of bitterness GA every
OF the Dissenter. Charles Wesley. the anIhor
Of hundreds Of hymns in all the churches of
Christi ndom and how readily cOnslgn 10 the dst
all thai was unworthy, all that was narrow AL flat Mas
bgOted, and ali that fanatica. while thar which
wac aud pure aud OF good repnte Is retained for
as the common property Of all Christian commInI-
ties VOr qdeB, diSso,a sed regio In tLis he so
with the dead, why not with the living Way wait mi
man deB, VINO diifars from In minor uatiers In
things unessenial and casual before VIC euioyize his
exceilences
Il is III fruming to this question that the
sp1t and services Of hOnOred guest deman1s onr
grateful mention With no abatement OF his uyei and
loving attachment 10 the church Ia which he mnsters
and ever able and ready 10 maintain its CLAIMS lis
train ng too scholarly his Is too genial
and nis sympathies too catholic allow him ~ oenv
thai there other branches OF the Christian church
be sides own, and that this very minister nas been
fle birthplace OF other confessions aud directores
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