Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-12-24
FORE FATHERS DAY.
AN ELOQUENT sPEeCH DELIVERED
BY HON. JAMES G. BLAINE
At the Annual Meeting of the Congre-
gationaI club in Boston last Evening
Speeches by other Distin-
guish d Gentlemen.

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music hall and after the customarycollation
speeches were made by Gov. Robinson
and many other distinguished gentlemen.
Mr.. Blaine made. the closing speech and
spake as follows:
Mr.. President, Gentlemen and Ladies of
the CONGREGATIONAL Club In notable
paper from Lord Bacon, he defines the
rank in which man, connected with
States, should be held in history, and in
his iaNO,ite Latin he gave the highest
rank to the conditores, founders OF States.
One of the most eminent of New Eng
lands ministers not many years since, in
quoting that paper from Lord Bacon
gave, | think, with great justice to the
| PurtauS and pilgrims of New England,
the classic title OF conditores rel pubnce
the actual founders of the republic.
! have often thought, If the civil in
| fiuence can be separated from the relig-
ious that the purtans and Pilgrims have
| made Il far deeper impression upon civil
and patriotic America than even on re
ligious America. They had divisions and
sectS, they had their share of differences,
| they were troubled with damnable
| heresies, they quarrelled with n"ighbors
| and had exactly that kind of iron Die that
/ belongs to the aggressive thcolOgian, bat
! when their descendants put into the cause
! OF liberty and real teaching OF their re-
! ligiOns they then had for their forces the
| tba Bapti~tS of Rhode Island, the Dutch
| Reformed of New York. the pre.bvtnr1an
of New Jersey, the Quakers of Penusyl-
! vania, and the Catholics OF Maryland, the
Royal Epl~cOpaliaus Of Virginia, the
| Hug uenots of Carolina, and the
| Nethodists Of Georgia. And they could
NOT have made MAT union mon ~ sin.,Ir
| tenet ot creed with the eXcpntlou of a he
| lief i'm God so that litertilv when DR.
! Bushnell spoke of the puritans a, con-
ditorcS rel pUbiicc, ne spoke the verdict
for the Ndamscs. and ne e,ppcially named
.JohIi Adams they could not huvr rnn-
ducfed the r4vnlut .ouury war ana couid
nor have made the declaratiou of iudr.
upndpncp
\o,v as bnve eaiG do NOT shnra rho
hlnnd If The Pnrit,'rs evrent az nm Ir,uh
lul lyou'd have il i'm - certain birtbritht
/ Iuv.tr,r, my rhilbrun ,nrtbavnr ali If
',nnd pnrit.,n ir.a.I,t in rho Ninth genarl
tior As ann in "A club and i'm a chm van
tn,y alIv,,>'s hr nnfsonal claim - da,cant
IRON. = rI,,.. 81 ig,rres.ivp Christians tbut
have mot lived i'm :, rrirn as fnciIe and .s
eIuourut in snrrch and have NOT ailvn,s
had ryuctlv th,lr share Of oli,tnrv Of aulIi
y,.rsIry ,Inys have done - 0ood deal If
t,l.,n,r I'm prn,,svlyn,,lo tnI. mo puiitnns If
New England in the b years that have
been a citlzcn of New England beiuo my
self a New Enplander by AdontIon afId
am Toit,y tn do - iiftIe tnlking on haL.If
of fhp pr4.bvttrinns uf pennsvlvYniu
Our DISTINGUISHED friend the nresideut nf
I5rown umiy, rsItv, nrrrsted nv nttrntinn
hv hi. sur@estil. rrtInt,,s on Gh,ilti,,,i
unity. ana would Ike To- ns< The prn.hv.
trrians nf pennsvlvnr,ia aud rho Cn,,,,rs
patinnulist. of New tnolnnd vyLv in I,ar-
ficular thnsr tIyn Observation-Disclosures 1f C,b,ril
tituns shomld stand annr'5 nav haIn we
any trn,ILIa hettyee,' fha R,ntiet cr.,,'t. re
whom the urfsid4mt of tha thpolnT,caj
SEMINARY at Newton alludeI and he Pras.
h,tnrinns ''''' -
There il not certainly q dif,icultv ofthat
kind between those two treat bodies
They stoud shouldrr 10 shoulder in tba
contest for civil n,d r,.licinus lihertv l.
there a difference bel weem them > If han.
pened TO me 20 wears AGO to he in scotland
and i'm - GENERAL Y..pmblv of the prssht,.
teriaus who nt that time we're divided az
the old school ana the new school nnion
between which had been affected and -
Scotcbman. who was very k4rnlv innriirine,
mtothe differences of creed asked snma ~
the American delegates TO tell the ditrer.
eurp hetwaeu the OH nud now srbo,ls ond
the dplepate from New Ynrk yvert intn'.
theoIoplcn EXPLANATION involvinr an
hours time, and when he was thronph -
new school member arose suddenlv and
said. think can eynIniu tLat - IittIa
more promptly and quickly than nv
brother has done 1t IS iusi this i.',' Thss
old school Presbvterans b9lieve That .! iu
Adams fail we sinnrd ali" and tbe na,u
school DrHShNtpriHnS hplipVa tbat n Al
ANS fall we an sinned y and that is ,vbera
the difference would come hetween tbe
Observation-Disclosures and the pra.hvtnriaus
the difference being that the nov Schnoi
are not so fond of doctrine as to mr. II MO
rhyme and sing il. -
Now think If the old school and tho
new school could come tngrthnr the
Presbyterians and CnnpreGati"n,,list
ought to come together am .nnci,IiT
reminded of this and If has henH
borne in upon me for so nnny ,,,rI |
that I hayp waited for tba n;,,,,r,,
uity TO eyDess if since "a yesrl 400
W. had in succession three presh,3,a'I,,
ministers seltlrI over nnr Conirs,,,tIdIai
church and rs thpv ieft NJ tbat -, I,"i
and mined no prsshy,a,i,n "'n h naJN
We'll now if seems to ma th ','' -, -,
president of Krnwn nv ,.lr' my th
president of the theoln,,icai oar,ir.,.,, .,t
Newton ,ni,rht SEQ SOM If tba dinify,; ''s
in ioinin" he Conyrngationnii. UiiiiT ,,,t
to &now Exactly W.T. I sta'd and ' wht,
narticulnr chaHge If thanIon,, 10 " ,,,''
nlated and VINO Is to M, inst.1ilad o,'nr 10 H.
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