New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-23

men who hnOw that they 1--we together for the greater
| glory pi God.
| THE RULING SENTIMENT OF TIE PILGRIMS.
Mr.. President ana gentlemen, it Is In those great
words that find the real secret history of the
success Of New Enslind. do not claim it FIR New
| England alone. ! Willing to admit the claim CT
MY friends the right and left OF me here who point
out SO well wat the Republics have done. men VINO
are trained In the sane school OF religion With ibert
| and civilization; but do claim, they say In the
covery Of success for the where all act
| If they believed In that central statement; mat me
| chef erd of nan i tn glory Of God VIVA! Is we
| chltf end Of man! some OF you were ~ ,cu tl'
dcred in the rest Of The Ca,eci 'in you we're able
10 say in reply The chief end Of man IS 10 glorfy
God and enjoy Him forever" Thee is a statement
| thee is the statement whi.h thousand, Of men and
h}@a9d. Of Tea an MGmg and
! New England is New ENGLAND II i, one thing for
m1n oS 32 " ecmo tn oT m d% % to 6
| want. for ri, own house. for his own bank account,
| man TO wake in the N rarc and come TO the con
scousness that that day he Is to live for the glory
Somehow other thcs- mpc men and women;
amG II y9 ia WI Io gon 81 now w cd goc
w or IN the mor1iHg with Ir tha d Ilp fCeGs H
| in It: this world i. Ia he more GOiS wo-li because
| ! am in 4: Co.'s kingdom is 20 come TO DAY. and
conviction rces out T. split shingles. ana he splits
shingles {? the glory Of Goa he 60 10 hrHah jhr.ug
/ the Story OF cd II h. coN. t. capture Lou'shurg.
he captures Lons'urs TO III glory of God. ard wien
Of the world is FOR the glory Of God that hc dote'
| him an he understands that he + A. WORK with
| God because he knows that he has an Almighty Ally.
| this man succeeds.
| AN OPPOSITE MOTIVE AND ITS CONSEoUENCFS
Take another man who rises with differ
| ent motive What You for today WY.
| II am down town early. can arrange % sell more
| liquor today than | sold Yesterday If We have a
successful day. there shall b. NOR mon going home
their vive, night; there shall le more men
carried home because they cannot find their way there
| and shall have more money in the bank / shaI
have chance 10 take in another room into our shop
| tomorrow at tho end Of the wear shau have sleoo
| mora than carned last year. Snch a man ao IN.
doe, not help mIch 70 the advancement OF your state
| such story th!S Is not much gained when yon
! balance yolr books in the eternal account.
There is exactly thi, distinction Of motive which
the fountati9rs Of their house on Christmas morn
Ing, or this cay which has closed 1ud now As ! 92k
| Sqme contrast. can remember myself the men WHO
! introduced tbs great railroad system In America. !
can remember The toy railway in NY father paror
In which he used 10 show TO men what was meant by
sadly and increduously they looked upon him. re,
GREETING that 50 clever man should be so crazy aho
| | remember how he and the men who wcr" with him
work for the greater glory OF God 30 tl4t III,
happy. 80 hat ne uiGht Ice easier. / can envy my
friends who sit on my night hand and on my eit mana
ternal traffic Of this Sa,ion as they rGcoi that by The
work which they have done IN the las twenty year,
what II would have cost him twenty years ago !
should think such men would 60 to bed at night happy
TO know that they have created as God creates. TIM.
| they have been fcllOwwoikmen with God In one OF
| His great efforts.
THE REWARD or SELFISTINE-S
Now. compare such as that with a man who,
caring for the prosperity o! the country, not car
Ing for the purposes Of God, has set himself at work
merely to clothe his own body. to soothe bis own
| palate, or as | sad. to build up his own bank dc-
count I'm of these transactions. Why. read the
other day in poor novel which publisher sent me-
| one chapter which struck me As having in 1t some
thing terrible. 1t desc;ibed man, and perhaps there
eimplv attempting to care for myself Tor me, "nat
have, what owe, my stocks, my bonds and my com
pany This man, he described in thi5 story,
was willing 10 get possession o. railway line merely
isience the owners merely that IN the competition Of
That men carry their he'll about with them; cannot
conceive any he'll terrible than the he'll Of such
man md described In this story, WHO, when hc saw
some poor begcar on he aidc"aIh should say To himself
PERHAPS AIN he who reduced TN, man 10 mat pc
nury ~ who. whenever some poor widow came IL Inn
ashing for some miserable biitanco' had 10 reflect
that lie might have been ia" cause Of a." saiVauri
OF make ner I an die in his % Dca Is oo GOOD for
such man The novelist lad The tact TO take HIM
from his hind. ana that hour by hour be tichled
his palate with their bursundles or as he led ~,
recollection al his heart that he lad done Ms bet To
set back the purposes Of Almighty God aud 10 nJurc
the prosperity OF the country IN which he lived.
WHAT THE GROWTH LED To
II Is really because from the day thO-c men landed
at Plymouth-frOm the day when Winthrop sighted the
Beverly shorcthey and their companions were trying
TO advance this work to make II better one. or.
they said themselves. 10 I've in Gods glory. 1t T.
because OF this that Massachusetts and New England
can claim any which they have achieved In
four five continents or Oh the OCEAN II Was ths
that their Whining fleets into both the oceans, ~
Burke saif-Burke VINO Knew hClhS Of lHe ocean, %
10 Gav was becau.e of is-l DO not say that they
planted schools and colleges. but that they planted cv
government That they butt up State that h.y unten
those States when tie lime for union came II l. be
causc Of this hat America Is The hrs Nation IN the
c;nizoi. when he was in exile, asked Mr.. Lowell
when he was Minister In LOnGOn, how long the
American Union would exist. and Lowell said 10 him
at will exist 50 long as the men Of america hoid 10
In these fundamental principles Is III" determination
Of fathers and Of children that IN each day Of HE
The world hall De- better world that Is, In each day
OF ife man shall live to the glory OF God.
other repabIcs and older republics iban our, repre-
sclng other religions than our, and state, OF another
origin than ours. must not think that II Is who
am describing the morals or the pro pcrity OF New
England. hold in my hand a llttie sip from The
vest pocket lest l should meet Ensilshman. The
London Times is hard hitter hard censor. II dcc
not easily praise but sometimes II IS obliged 10 praise
ne sympathy Of NJ people Of Msssaengsetts is
munitv Of which We have any hnowledgc approaches
in or noy T to rhG 991 b s Of this
We Massachusetts men do not ask. because We are
modest for langas. more marked mat ,his %hch Is
Of liberal Institutions.
4 WORD FOR THE FUTURE.
And It Is 10 the destiny which awaits such race
that we are willing 10 commit the future. What that
future will be, do not know and we DO not ask
10 know but we firm in the faith that rs long n,
tho children will hold the fundamental principles
Of the fathers the same success will crown their en-
doavors which has crowned those OF the fathers, If
we live TO the greater glory Of COD II each man Of
us every day resolves to set M, world one stage
forward sure OF minnie Alliance ana ne VINO
has Infinite alliance l. not apt 10 ihl
We meet together here at the season OF the year
whom there is least light. Yes. but more light Is com
ing. II Is the season which the 'hurch appointed Tor
church meant TO say that at the very moment when
nf sunlight This Is the month when. by one Of those
curious coircidcnces which compel MS 70 believe that
history is written by universal law. II happened -
we reverently say that fifty weavers and spinners
l.. L. L..to min. LL... lDrl.