St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-22
FOREFATHERs' DAY
Handsomely Celebrated by
the Club Of Congrega-
tionalistS.
Eloquent Tributes. to the
Worth of Character OF
the Pilgrims.
A Hyperborean Wave on It's
Way From the Far
Northwest.
No Pity to Be Wasted on
Women Who Steal in as
Stores. -

Forefathers' day was appropriately
observed by the Congregational club. A
real old-fashioned New England dinner
was served in the Peoples church par
lor last night by the women of the club,
at which various daintieS that had their
origin in the land Of the Pilgrims were
served by these their gracious daugh-
tiers. After dinner the company ad-
iourned to the adjoining parlor, where
the programme for the evening was car
ried out. The pres dent OF the club,
DR.. Smythe Baker, introduced the
speaker of the evening, President Gates,
OF Iowa college, who spoke OF the III
grim Puritan spirit in the large mean
ing. After some preliminary remarks,
in which he sketched in a measure MS
subject, President Gates said that Ii was
The general belief that Northern ma
tons were more generally truthful than
those who first saw the light under
warmer skies, and told of most won
derfuI incident that had come To MS
sight In the report of meeting at tlat
church not long ago, when the reporter,
to be perfectly exact, had SAID that some
one "saug a vocal solo" and congratu-
lated St. Paul Oh the phenomenally
truthful eXactneSs of its newspaper re
pOrterS. H. c.oa
said that the landing Of the Pilgrims Oh this
earth was not an accident. but was one Vi
the steps that humanity TOOK toward d IlSLef
life The building of character may De Tx
ened to a journey up high mountain whose
top is perfection. MOnOthe Sin,as III was por
trayed in the religion OF the Hebrews. ana
righteousness, their principal cnaraCterisIic,
was the first step in the progress OF tIe race.
The next was the birth Of Chrlst, Wnen rove
was added as the great lesson OF lie: Inc
reformation OF Luther was the next mp
tant event i'll human development. ana inc
lesson then was love of God Inc french
revolution further enforced the lesson Inat
man shall not Cypress his brother man. Inc
Puritans only wanted to purify the Protes-
taut religion. but Protestants couio snow as
long a list of oppression for conscience sake
rs Catholics could, and 20 Tor lie ana Tor
freedom of conscience they were Lorceu
to leave the England tney :, i9 1N
First they found refuge in Holland,
but they were English, they could not
be satisfied in a land where they couiu not
hear the English tongue or see Enghsh Gus
. toms. They determined TO cross the SEA 10
that new land wnere they hoped TO ma lfee-
dom. They were not much better posted as
to American geo e. spny than some kngiish-
men of To-Day. TO- they suggested 10 tne
powers that ruled that lit would be good
Thing to let them settle at the Gull OF 81 Law
renee, when they could run over ana sellie
those bloody Catholic Spauiards on the Gulf
of Mexico and so they came, l0l souls Ill
that little vessel the MayfoWer, and mace the
fourth step i'll The progress OF the race pos
sible And so they proved. us an hngllsh
poet has sung,
Not once or twice in our rou III island S
story,
40 TN of utv iS tho M fin IN Glory -
If it is true as some scientists assert, that
human development is along certain lines of
latitude, then we may look for the greatest
development of the Puritan spirit along the
northern states of The Mississippi valley.
New England, come west is better than New
universal democracy, the right to think for
ourselves 10 govern ourselves. to make our
own bishops, is what Luther taught. Modern
LutheranS stop at the place Where Lulher
stopped, but can we doubt that Luther and
CALVIN would have have advanced II
they had lived at this time?
here was read Il little poem to show how
Calvin would act if a Wretched child should
stray to his side in the heavenly world that
was received with great applause. Any age,
said the speaker, that is not an age of reform,
is a very blank age. Then follow some
pertinent remarks on our present political
methods, both national and political. I'VE
must get back!to the Puritan spirit IN these
matters or the dangers are many ana great
and real that threaten us. The call OF this
spirit is in our ears. That little coekle she'll
of vessel, the MayGower, was a stronger
battering ram to break down the ramparts Of
wrong and injustice than the navies of1he
world unless those navies are manned with
the spirit that the Pilgrim fathers had, that
December day so long ago when they
landed on the bleak New England coast for
God and right and liberty and justice.
DR.. Smythe Baker thanked the
speaker at the close of the address by a
vote of the club. Rev. Todd, of Mont
pelier, made The closing PRAYER. The
ST. Paul Mendelssohn club, il. Merrell.
lirSt tenor; A. :. Willougeby, second
tenor; ID. f. COlVllle, baritone; Charles
De Lacy, basso, sang beautiful quar-
tette. The president requested the club
to join in singing america" as clos
ing hymn. -.