Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-28

remain, with the broad ocean on one side
of them and the UNEMPLOYED forest with
its savage occupants on the other. Our
admiration for the Pilgrims will be in
creased if we consider why they came
to these unknown coasts. To establish
here new nation on democratic princi-
ples-ths was not in their thought. They
desired to remain under English rule; but
they wished, most of all, to find place
where they and those who svmpathized
with them might worship God as they
thought right. The call of duty, not
dreams of empire, brought them hither !;
and they staid on when hunger threaten
ed and savages slew because that call was
so strong. 1t is not easy to put ones self
in the place of the Pilgrims and to appre-
cate what they endured. They were in
experienced in pioneer life they had few
implements and no domestic animals, and
yet with their feeble resources they sue
ceeded in founding a nation in the wilder
ness. The institutions of civilization
grew up. Laws were made and obeyed.
In time schools were founded and the col
ony, at first so feeble, became finally
strong and prosperous. In these days we
may with profit consider their example.
1t was liberty to do right which they
sought; the modern idea of liberty would
have been an abomination to them. That
they were perfect in all respects is not
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times has been fraught with such vast
consequences to mankind as that which
they started. God was to them an awful
reality, being whose will was to be
obeyed and to whom they must answer
for their conduct They had therefore
strength of character, defniteness of pur-
pose and an individuality that left an i'm
press on after generations. Faith in God
made them strong, and imitation of their
example will lead this nation out of the
dangers which hang over it. 1t is ours,
also, tc heed the voice of conscience.
We have space only for this outline of
Or. Mclntre's address. 1t was an able
presentation of the subject, and not one
of his hearers failed to get from it a clear
err idea of what manner of men the Phi
grims were, what they endured and what
their actions taught.
The exercises in the church closed with
the doxology and the benediction, pro-
nounced by DR.. McIntire.
THE LADIES SOCIAL PARTY,
The audience then descended to the YES
try for the ladies' party. The room was
handsomely and deliberately decorated
with bunting, flags, lanterns and pic
lures; and the tables were loaded, as al
ways on these occasions, with the finest
of refreshments. Grace was said by Rev.
w. w. Winchester of Wiliamstown.
Mass.
The good things provided having been
thoroughly discussed, Hon. j Ohm W. Stew
art, who presided, raped the tables to
order and there was singing by Mrs. Pitts
and DR.. Sheldon, Mrs. Miner playing
the accompaniment.
MIR. Stewart spoke briefly, touching in
an interesting manner upon the contrast
between what the Pilgrims ACCOMPLISHED
and r,bo+ ,,,,,
vas '0he y! 'iie OPa"'arus WHO
settled to the southwark. He then pro-
posed various toasts prepared by the
venerable secretary of the Middlebury His
torical society, under the auspices of
which tho axaroisos ,ouo Lo,, nv,
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made if thn uahro,,, t,it,, .,'' "nu oociueh'
man liberty for "treedom 70 worshin cnn '''
Hull Danlel ROBERTS or Burlington
was eApecIeu 10 Oe present TO respond to
this Instead he sent tho foIIou,;,n
wiz A"i'o"ihS
letter:
BURLINGTON, VT, Dec. Is. 1sss
NJ, Doo- D,tU 80 D'' TO- 1900
IT,, 800, oui ihFi'a'ioh 10 go on
am forced to decline, but tor rea
sons thousand leagues removed from INV
'isrespect 10 the historic virtues and memo
ries OF those staunch old Pilgrim fathers. who
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