The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-10

the servlces on the day of Washington's in.
8lgurhiiOn were conducted bv the bishop of
New York, the 1t. Rev. Samuel Provost. At
o'c!ork the COMMITTEES on states escorted
| the president from tho Fifth Avenue hotel,
ACCOMPANIED by the chef Justice ard men,
bcrs 0f the cabinet, and under an escort of
police, proceeded to Vice President MortOn's
residence The vice president entered Pres
1dent Harrison carriage. and the procession
moved down 20 st. Paui's At tho ycsey
street gate the party wna met by tho COM
! mittec of the vestry of Trinity church. and
| the president was conducted to the Washing
ton pew. The cdiiice WIS filled with the
weaithirst and most ~ ionincnt people in the
country. The address was delivered bv 1T
Rev. ii. c. Poster ID ID. bishop of New York,
in substance as follows:
One hundred years ago there knelt within
ti1csc walls man to whom, above all others in
,la M history. This nation is indebted Englisl
hv race ani Lineage. he incarnatcd i'll hIs own
person aud character every hest trait and attri-
butte that have mnho tho Anglo Saxon name n
glory to its children and II terror to it's enemies
throughout the world But he was not so much
an Englistlman that, when tho timo came for
him 10 he 80. he was not even more American:
and in all that he was aud did IntrOt exalted
and leader great and wise: that what men called
him when he came here tn be inauguratcd az tho
first president Of the United statcs tho civilized
the Father Of His Country.
And SO. with incXncssiblo tenderness and rev.
erence We lind ourselves thinking Of him here
forth to his great tasks with micn so august and
majestic that Fisher Anes, who sat beside HIM
In this chapel, wrote: II was present in the pew
Win Inc president AMI must assure yOn that
after making all deductions for tho dclusons Of
onr fancy in regard to characters still think OF
him with more vcncratiun than for any other
person"
i yield to no man in INV vencration for the
man who framed the compact under which these
states are bound together. No one can easily
cXaggeratc thcir Services or the value Of that
which they wrought ont. But, ftcr all, we NAV
not forget to day that the thing which they
made was dead and not n living thing. The con-
ception Ut the general government hugo
machine, eNis,in. mainly for the purpose of re-
warh1'rE pnrtishn scrvicc-this was a conccpton
80 alien to the character and conduct of WASH
ngton and his associates that IL seems gro: esqne
even to speak of it. IL would he interesting to
imagine the first president of the United States
confronted with some one who had vcnturcd to
approach him upon the basis OF what nrc now
commonly known as practical politics." But
the conception il mpossiblc
Here i'll this holy house we find the witness of
that one Invisible force which. because 1t alone
can rule the conscience, Is destined one day to
rule the world: In native majesty he was a
ruler. Wise ami strong aud fearless in the sight
of God and men, because by the ennobling grace
OF God he had learned, first of ALL to conquer cv-
cry mean and selfish and self seeking aim, and
SO to rule himself. For
What are numbers knit
lty force or cnstom? man who man would he
Aiust Iule the empire OF lnscli--in it
Must b"snprcinc. establishing his throne
Of vanquisLed will, uueiny the anarchy
Or hopes and fears, being himself alone"
such was the hero, leader. ruler patriot,
whom VIC gratefully remember on this day. We
mcn', nor him. but none the less rejoice that
once he lived and led hi. people, led them and
ruled them prudcn:ly" like liin that kinvly
ruler and shepherd of whom the isainist sang.
prize his grand example, ant, as we may IN our
more modest measure. to reproduce his virtues.