New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-17
MR. COLLYERS TRIP 10 ENGLAND.
TELLING HIS CONGREGATION ABOUT Ills VACATION
JOURNEY.


JOURNEY
a basket of roses and lilies, with the word
Welcome In violet flowers. stood at the foot OF the
Rev Robert Collyer's pulpit I'm the Church or the
Messiah Yesterday morning. and his eyes rested on 1t as
he entered the church for time since his vaca-
ton and his Journey England. He looked hale ana
hearty and fresh winds OF the Atlantic had Impaired
richer color to his cheeks they bore when he went
away large congregation listened TO his sermon,
which he entitled A Look England" The text was
l. Kings Kill IT: "Come home with me ana refresh
Yourself" He said in part
have never appreciated the closeness OF the ties
which bind Europe to America and especially England
TO America so potenty as in this summers Journey IL
occurred TO me to look the book they keep In the
home OF him whose human heart Ia the most hosptaDe
OF anyhat has heard OF far In our human history
the book in which names are ali wTltten-anu
think at least rs per cent OF those noticed were
from somewhere on this side OF the water while It Is
evident wherever you go among these homes. made
sacred by the genius or the grace OF the old mother
land that the man whom they ready to give the
warmest welcome the man OF this New World not only
for the fresh and heart IN him to drink IN oil the
delight OF these sacred places but for reasons need not
nnme which have less do with their liie perhaps,
than their living | told that the only places where
we are welcome above all other men, are those that
are maintained by vending the minimum OF bread with
the maximum OF sack There they say they don't want
Ia because we will but will not drink. This goes to
the truth have always held that your wel-born aud
welbred American f. sober man, aud Is TO become the
prosenitor II lie holds his own. OF sober The
cultured ear listens on our side for the nona
lions OF New gland. and uds is the English
tongue abased but caught man In
Windsor Forest who spoke TO me In
the intonations OF rustic New-England He was
simply OF the old stock. aud speaking in the old
tongue they brought with them to Boston. 1t is
ha,n A le ue- ia
fast human heart aud lie IT Is face matching face and
eye matching eye and footsep matching foOtsep
the gulf OF 200 years For We all 10 nome VINO cross
the sea and lnd afresh how one day may be 10 us
also rs a thousand years, and thousand years
day. deep the roots Of this grand old life
81 the Engish-speaking race.
"such journey all the more welcome aud fruitful
OF good meinore. when you note, 1 have done
this SUMMER how much lighter the burdens are that the
people have to bear comparison with those well
Remember IN NY youth, aud now thelr ne Is slowly but
surely answering tAe a1yancu they are making across
desert which divides the serf nom tue man. Tue
but never so aurely ia this journey. is the
advance IN the condition Of the toers IN the factories
ana forges. John Bright, with whom had a long and
In ENGLAND are better Off than tbcy
are III America. but thls 90 not Tor moment believe.
Tue hey ODd al question dips the other way. Tue
generation OF children 10 wncn lbeoIged we're crippled
% their the factories and tneir poor iOod
49, L. w." hours on -. nr,Iay Iney we're set TO work
at seven years old Tne hours OF their toll cut down
zero. They cauuot enter The factories al al
A. an oyef-tnrly age TncY have 20 10 10 school The
wages wnOic working population are 70 per cout
Acir purchasing power - % per cent hguOr
for they need, ana tie hours or labor
amounting u srventyseVcn hours "A week ARE reduced
to ufiy-sx while SATURDAY at noon the whole work
uR population the fOrge7 aud factories u Released
ud goes about recreation. Tue or those
work the land were advanced 10 almost double those
that 1 remember. Tue working people have their
holiday running through the year,
about Ten days all told, on wLch
ey can go abroad and the world that Is beyond the
valley they were born The land In fun OF life
ful o. wealth, and as full OF hope England
hope VITA disposition she mas AWAY nourshed
o look on dark side and to make good the saying OF
Lord Halifax, mat men are saved by want Oi fath.
SAW forests Ia about London wAch are common 10
tue puDuc. see our city iHtuers are looking toward
some sucu Wild reach OF land those fo.csts. TEey
could not better thing, only TO mako 1t what II
should be. This should be the aw Go where you vii.
and welcome We read now tho blessed Christ satdOwn
with five Thousand IN place wnere thete was much
grns- had done thai any park know OF belong
ing TO NcgIO Chicago, the chances are lie would
hANe peen arresLed. We great and IIeo PeOpe."