The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-09

the services on the day Of WaShington's in
auguraJiou were conducted by ble bishop of
New York, the RI Rev. Samuel PROVOST At
8 o'clock the committee on states escorted
the president from the Fifth Avenue hotel,
accompanied by the chief justice and men,
bers of the cabinet, and under an escort of
police proceeded to Vice President Morton's
residence. The vice president entered Pres
ident Harrison's carriage, and the procession
moved down to ST. PaurS. At the Vesey
street gate the party was met by the COM
mittee of the vestry Of Trinity church. and
the president was conducted to the Washing
ton pew. The edifice was filled with the
wealthiest and most pl ointment people in the
country. The address was delivered by RG
Rev III. G. Potter. D. D., bishop of New York,
in substance rs follows:
One hundred years ago there knelt within
these walls a man to whom, above all others i'll
its history. this nation is indebted. English
by race and lineage he incarnated in his own
person and character every best trait and attr-
butte that7have made the Anglo-Saxo name
glory to its children and terror to its enemies
throughout the world. But he was not so much
an Englishman that, when the time came for
fffsn 10 be so. he was not even more American:
and in all that he was and did patriot exalted,
and leader great and wise; that what men called
him when he came here to be inaugurated as the
first president of the United States the civilized
world has not since then ceased to call him
the Father of His Country
Z And so, with inexpressible tenderness and rev.
+ erence we find ourselves thinking cf him here.
kneeling to ask such gifts and then rising to go
| forth to his great tasks with men august and
majestic that Fisher Ames, who sat beside him
in this chapel, wrote: Il was present in the pew
with the president and must assure you that
after making all deductions for the deusions of
our fancy in regard to characters, still think of
him with more veneration than for any other
person.
/ yield to no man in my generation for the
man who framed the compact under which these
states are bound together. No one can east Y
exaggerate their services or the value of that
which they wrought out. But, after all, we may
not forget to day that the thing which they
made was dead and not living thing. The con-
ception of the general government a huge
machine, existing mainly for the purpose of re-
SO alien to the character and conduct of Wash
ington and his associates that 1t seems grotesque
even to speak Of it. 1t would be interesting to
imagine the first president Of the United States
| confronted with some one who had ventured to
approach him upon the basis of what are now
commonly known as practical politics." But
| the conception is impossible
Here in 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 and strong and fearless in the sight
of God and men, because by the ennobling grace
of God he had learned. first of all, to conquer ev
| cry mean and selfish and self-seeking aim and
30 to rule himself. For
What are numbers knit
BY force or custom? man who man would be
Must lule the empire of himself--n it
Must be supreme, establishing his throne
OF vanquished will, quelling the anarchy
OF hopes and fears, being himself alone"
Such was the hero, leader, ruler, patriot,
| whom we gratefully remember on this day. We
ment, nor him, but none tho less rejoice that
once he lived and led this people, lied them ar d
ruled them prudently" like him, that kinGly
ruler and shepherd Of whom the Psalmist sang,
| with all his power" God give us the grace to
| prize his grand example, and, as we may in OF r
more modest measure, to reproduce his virtues,