Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-07-23
LARAMIE WILLIAM.
de Makes = Pilgrimage 70 the Old
South Church
hsgt.tsFs ssa Asks H4- >oosa Tea ~ w4i 80
served frsiag sesaie- foF O4s G.s5lg
filEriEs4 f41a~rs- TIE SEQ ns-
ei..t Abroad some a-t0Fg

lBAl ~. ia Eoston Gloos.
TIE Oad Saata ,slla House la Boston
. tas alost rsaiarka1As straetars la aany
lespecis e. - found la thas ransr zsbls
city, Always % ger 3aersssr / - g.
search .4l AZ 9aos tas < - pel privileges, IL
b 4oE O. =. asu Tered at tbat / should
have gone g. ths Ol4 solsh TIE hrst LAY
aftef / laa.ied la b9s -on-
g. Is hartly necessary g 70 over the
histsry ol the Oii south. except perhaps
g. refresh tae aeinory ~ those ~hO live
outside I'd Bastoa. The Olt Soath Seeisty
s4s organized Ia l66.. ani the SrOaad oa
which TIE o.d meeting h.ass nov stands
as given - Mrs. Nortoa ths widow Of
ksg. John Norton. since deceased The
hrst structure ~as ~ wood, aud ia l7gS
the present brick bufdiay sacc eeded =
Klng's Hand book of Boston says. III Is
one Of the few hist 0rie buiidings that have
been allowed 60 reInaia Ina thi. iconOeiAs-
t.c age"
~ 10 seems that they are troubled with
iconoeiasts in Boston. TOO. | th01ght 1
sa@ one hanging around the Old South
GA the day / ~as thsre. AMI had a good
notion to point him out - the autaorl-
tiss Jul thought &c was none Of my busi-
ness.
went into the building and reg gistered,
aud then from force OF habit or absent
mlndedae~s handed my umbrella over the
counter aud asked how soon supper would
- ready. Every BODY registers. bat very
few / am told, ask how sooa supper will
10 ready The Old South j. now run on
the European plan, however.
The old meeting house IS chiehy re-
markable for the associations that cluster
arouad 10. Two centuries hover about the
ancient weather vano aud look down upon
the visitor when the weather Is favorable
Benjamin Franklin was baptized
aud attended worship here, prior 10
his wonderful invent on OF lightning.
Here on each succeeding Sabbath sat the
man who afterward shared the forked
lightning with string and put it in a jug
FOR future generations. Here Whlteheld
preached aad the rebels dis scusssd the
tyranny Of the British Kns. Warren
delivered his famous speech here upon the
anniversary OF tho Boston massacre and
tue tea party" organized ia this same
building. Two hundr Il years ago exact
.y the British used the Old South as
military riding school, although a major
ity Of the people in Boston were not in
favor OF 10.
IL would be well 10 pause here and con
sider the trying situation in which oCs
ancestors were placed at that time. Conn
ins 10 Massachusetts as they did, at
time,wnen the country was new and prices
I f.-h
from Oppress lOn and establish themselves
50 far away from the tyrant that he could
not come over here and disturb them with
out suffering from the extreme nausea in
c.dent % a long sea voyage. Alas. how
ever when they landed a. Plymouth Rock
there was not decent hotel in the place
The same stern and rock bound coast
which may be discovered alon, the At
lantic seaboard to-day was tn IRE, and
cruel relentless SKY frowned upon their
endeavor<
W here prosperous cities now haunt
their proud domes and floating debts, the
rank jimspn weed nodded in the wind and
the pampkin pie Of to-day still slumbered
in the bosom OF tho future. What glorious
facts have. under the benign influence OF
fos eriug centuries been born of apparent
imposs ibilIty! What giant certainties
have grown through these years from the
seeds Of doubt and discoura cement and
uncertainty tBig frecrackers and ap-
clause
A. that time our ancestors had but tim
dly embarked in the forefather business
They did not know that future genera
ions in four button cutaways would rise
Ip and call them blessed and pass resOlu-
ions of resp 'ct on their untimely death
II they stayed at home the king taxed
hem all out II shape, and IL they went
lgt % B0ston a fev rods 70 get enough
luckl berries for breakfast they would
frequently come home so full of Indian ar
lows that they could not get through
.ommon door " ithout IT at pain.
Such vas the early history OF the coun-
ry where now cultivation aud education
tni rsGnsmeut run rampant and people
/ ut up All night 20 print newspapers so
hat we can have them ia the morning
The land on which the Old South stands
very valuable for business purposes.
AMI $40 go will have 20 be raised IA order
+ % preserve the old landmark 70 future
/ generations earnestly nope that it will
- secured. AMI that the old meeting
+ l01se. lear not alone % the people Of Bos-
on. but to the million Of Americans scat
eresl from sea 20 sea, who can not forget
where first universal freedom piumed it,
win Z. Bill NYE.
a FUNERAL OF HIS OWN.