Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-28
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JOHN KNOX EULOGIZED.
Learned Discourse From DR.. Macintosh
to Scotch-I Irish Amsricans-A Tribute
Paid to Pittsburg-Tho Right Kind of
Indenpudpnce

A Learned Discourse From DIR. Macintosh b
to Scotch Irish Americans-A Tribute
Paid to PittsburE-Tho Right Kind of
Independence.
The First Presbyterian Church was comfort
ably filed last evening with a representa-
tive audience to listen to the Rev. John s.
Macintosh, D. D., of Philadelphia, who ad-
dressed them upon John Knox in Independ-
ence Hall"
The gentleman was briefly introduced BY
Colonel ]. M. Echols, who referred to him as
"the only specimen of the kind in the United
States" Rev. Macintosh prefaced his remarks
on the historical gentleman by saying he was
delighted to meet a Pittsburg audience com
posed of the Scotch-Irish element of the
city and vicinity. He said he was
proud to address them. He felt personal re-
sponsibility regarding the second annual
Scotch-Irish Congress that is to be held IN the
city the last of next May, as he was the first
and the most enthusiastic advocate of Pitts
burg as the place to hold the reunion. Know
ing the vast number of earnest industrious
Scotch-lrISh men and the sweet religious
women that abounded in Pittsburg, he thought
1t just the place to reunite in the second an
nual congress of the Scotch-Irish.
He said he hoped that as long as Pittsburg
had been honored as the selected site for the
reunion, it would rise up in It's might and
Scotch Irish history. He said it was no alien
association, but a grand national, or rather
international congress, and interest and enthu-
sasm should increase from this time on to the
time of celebration, which ought to go on
record as one of the most enjoyable and
auspicious gatherings of the century. In his
address upon John Knox never were matter and
manner more admirably blended. John Knox
under God, he said, made the Scotch and
Scotch-Irish and their characteristics sun
yielding grit, granite hardness, close-mouthed
self-repression, clear, firm speech when the
truth is to be told God-fearing honesty, loyalty
to friendship, defiant of death. conscience and
knee-bending only to God" He said:
Before Knox wrought and enstamped him.
self, our race had abilities. After him, we have
achievements. Before him we have powers;
now performances; before him strugglings:
now success. In long years of close historic
reading and interested study of national de-
partures and racial trends. have found many
marked and self-impreSsing leader who for
some time, has made nation wax and nodded
it at will; but then new fires came and new
stamp. But l have not found one such
other case in history where single leader has
SO deeply, pervasively and permanently en-
stamped himself on people who, of all folks,
stand foremost among the self-asserting races
He was indeed the earliest hand that panned
anything I can call declaration of independ-
ence. He boldly taught broad and stirring Scot
land these lessons and put the generative words
into clear writ. The authority of kings and
princes was originally derived from the peo-
pie; that the former are not superior to the
latter collectively considered; that if rulers
become tyrannical or employ their power for
the destruction of their subjects, they may be
lawfully controlled and proving incorrigible
may be deposed by the community as the
superior power. Tyrants may be judicially pro-
ceeded against even to a capital punishment
During the entire lecture, in which tho
Scotch-lrish as class and John Knox in par.
tlcular. were treated the predominating char
acteristics with which the gentleman invested
the subject of his lecture, were impersonated
in his own appearance, words and manner OF de-