New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-23

tory of common country To WI at class OF your
oitizens-more thnn to any other think-do You owe
the proud memories OF your past and yonr stre1gth
first chance your destiny your character your dayel
opmeni Why, the Puritan preacher of course, the man
who in every parish nculcated the fear Of God In your
fathers souls, obedience to law civil and divine the
dignity Of man. the worth of the soul and right conduct
men the Puritan clergy DID great work for New
land. Our whole untry feels yet the impulse and
movement given by those stern preachers OF righteous
ness, who had Abrahamc eyes under their foreheads
know it's the fashion, now To noEe 2n at the Pnriians to
use the Blue Laws " weapon against them, to
alas do not breathe through their lungs any more
The wheel has found and have come back 10 the
very thi1gs the Puritans fed from In hatred and In
horror.
We pride Ouseves these days on sweetness and
light" culture and manners. The soul Of the
Is hospltabe and enterains like inn God or the
devil ON equal terms as George Eliot says Alas the
we are passing; the old stars have ceased TO shine;
too mar Of US know neither course nor destination;
Puritan Is not enough for our guidance. For The
age Is in all things not OF or OF faith but OF
all moral and spiritual questions we'll Well, we shall
see what we shall But for one, admire with all
this world for what his chief end ii H. what he be
lieyes must do aud must be- and In the ways thereof Is
Puritan divine was such man He sowed yonr rocky
coasts and sterile hills with conscience and God ou are
living the virtue that out OF the hem OF his gar
ment lapplause; he is our blwark still in this land
old Puritan; once aroused he was always aroused;
while other mon hesitated he acted; while others
debated he declared; earring God, he lifted above
every other fear aud though he has passed away FOL
turning, can't stand ar-he will come back again.
but IN the meantime he il still preacher Of righteous
Long continued applause.
, In your presence greet with my warmest admira-
ton salute with profound reverence the old Furl
tan dyines OF New-Engand who had scOrn for all
base uses of fe who were true TO duty az they saw it,
who formed their characters and guided their lives by
the law OF righteousness in human conduct. ZAP
plausc TO these under God we largely owe our
liberties and our laws in this land take of my hat to
his ghost and salute him greater than he who hes
taken a city, for the Puritan divine conquered himself
Applause lie was an Isaac, not an Ishmae; he was
Jacob, not Esau. GOd-bOTn man who knew what
intoCrant ' Yes but what would YOU have gentlemen
The Puritan was not pretty head carved on cherry
stone but Colossus cut from the rock huge, grim,
but awe-nspirng certifying to the soul If not warming
to the heart lApplause.l
THE SONS OF THE PURITANs
Well. would he know you tonight, wonder, his own
sons. If he in upon yOu IN circumstances so
different and with and customs so changedl
Would he gaze at You with sad. sad eyes and weep over
yOn as the degenerate OF noble sresl Laughter
No no you are worthy, think. The sons will keep
what the fathers won After ali you are stu one Win
clasp hands with him in devotion To the same principle
in obedience the God True, the man between
doublet skin plays many parts fashions come and
co. never long the same but ClOhe me AZ yOu Viii am
saucho Pan7a still" SO you are Puritans still Back
OF v5Gr tintarlSnism. back of your Episcopaanisn
back of yOur characterization. back OF all your sis
cOnccits vagaries-aud there is no end to them
aughtcr-back of them all there beats In you the Put
Titan heart Blood will tell Scratch child OF sweetness
and light Beacon Hill to-day and you will find Pu-
ritan. Laughter Scratch your Emerson, your Bel
lows your Lowell, your LongfellOw. your Wendell
PHILLIPS your Phillips Brooks and you find the Puritan.
fApplase In intellectual conclusions vastly different,
In heart at bottom you're all one in love OF liberty, I'm
fear Cod contempt for shams and of all things
ba se and mean. Applause.
So We ghosts OF Oh Puritan diylnes We cannot look
down on your tonight with SAL and rprOachful
eyes For the have not wasted what the fathers
gained. nor Jailed in any critical emergency, nor yet
forsakcn the God ye feared well. though they have
modified your creed Gentlemen, cannot think that
the blood has ont. Exchange your evening dress
or the betcd tunic and cloak take of the silk hat and
put on the wide brm and the steepe crown. and To-
see the Puritan. And twenty years ago heard hun
speak and saw him act II any man hauls down tho
American flag, shoot him the spot" Applause.
WHY Warren in old Boston did not act more promptly
or do finer thing Well what moved in your splendid
DIX when he gave that Orlerlrhe spirit of the old Pu
Iitan (Applalsc And saw the sons OF the sircs not
Who Redeemed the streets Of Baltimore with the first
Union blood Massachusetts. loud applause. Who
to-day are the first to rally 10 the side OF good cnuSe
on trial in the cOmmunityi Who still first in colleges
and letters in this laudl Who, east or west advocate
Justice redress wrongs maintain equal rights. support
churches love liberty and thrive where others StarYe!
WHY these ubiquitous of the PutanS. OF course
who dine me might (Applausel Gentlemen, |
salute YOU II not Miltiades would be Ihrnis
stocles -; II not ScOtch-lrishWHn, would De
IA Puritan Continued applause