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

ehe services on the day of Washin gtOns in.
augura zion were conducted bV bIe bishop of
! New York, the lit. T. v Samuel PROVOST At
o'clock the committee on states escorted
the president from the Fifth Avenue hotel
ACCOMPANIED Ivy thC chief justice and men,
bers of the cabinet, and under an escort Of
police proceeded to Vice President MOrtOns
residence The vice president entered Pres
idGnt Harrison s carriage, and the procession
moved down 20 s.. PauI's. At the Npsny
street gate the parry WAS met BY the com
mittee of the Vcstrv Of Trinity church. and
the president was conducted to the Washing
ton pew. The ediiice was filled with the
Weathiest and most pl ointment people in The
country. The address vas delivered by r..
Rev. H. c. Potter b D., bishop of New York,
in substance rs follows:
One hundred years ago there knclt within
these wallis a man to whom, above all others in
its history. this nation is indebted. English
by race and lineage. he inCarnatci i'll his own
person and character every best trait ami attrl-
butte that have made the Anglo Saxon name
glory to its children and terror to its enemies
| throughout the world But he not much
an Englishman that, when the time came for
| lfR1l 10 be so. he was not even more American:
and i'll all that he was and did patriot exalted.
and leader great and WISE that what men called
him when he came here to 10 iuauguratcd as the
first pr sidelt of the United States the civilized
world has not since then ceased to call him
! the Father of His Country.
! And so, with indispensable tenderness and rev.
! erenCe, md ourselves thinking Of him here
kneeling to ask such = fits and then rising to 90
forth to his great tasks wit h mien so august and
| majestic that Fisher Amca, 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 delusOns of
our fancy in regard to characters still think of
! him with more veneratiOn than for any other
| person.
yield to in my veneration for the
! man who framed the compact under which these
| states are bound together. No can east V
| 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 a dead and not a living thing. The con-
| CeptiOn Of the general government as a huge
! machine, existing mainly for the purpose of re-
| warding partisan serviCc-this was a conception
| so alien to the character and conduct of Wash
iugtOn and his associates that it seems gro esQue
| 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 il 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 4
| of God and men, because by the ennObing grace
of God he had learned first of all, to conquer cv
! cry mean and selfish and self-seeking aim. and
80 to rule himself For
| What are numbers knit
| BY force or custom? man who man would be
Must ulc tho empire of himself--in it
Must be supreme. establishing his throne
or vanQuished will, QucIling the anarchy
| or hopes and fears being himself alone.
Such was the hero, leader. ruler, patriot
whom we gratefully remember on this day. We
may not reproduce his are his young CnvirOn-
ment, nor him, but none tho less rejoice that
once he lived and led this people, led them arc
| ruled them prudcntly" like him, that kingly
| ruler and shepherd of whom the PsaImist sang,
| with all his power" God give the grace to
prize his grand example, and as we may in OF l.
more modest measure to reproduce his virtues.