New-York tribune., 1893-12-23

| VII py them, but when we merely natter
| rathers for having ourselves as children We make
| ne same udicrous inversion q cause and effect:
may may we build by them. ,o.. ,os
your society gathered all these years. ana thsse
@ nac,S are accessible and heroic Leviiy soar III a. a.
tempt parody of the Dies Irae to make mrtn
| Of that manly price which obtained the freedom
certain sea eaptan wrote in his log mat ns Hferr hr1'
't was but once for year and your record in; n!
PILES piles that . an, common sot rs THE II mates
! turn came to write the log and he set down me M
captain has been sober all day" " What 90 you
mean sir" roared the irate shipmas'er ~ ~
We can distor facts by soatng them We ma, NAY
of his foiblee that heed which owe to his full
h fns may tn Which s6e gH
men. who so largely wore their ears shipped uaia
conviction and OF obstinate righteousness. reminds
me in way Of an authentic story OF I,us n ,i
private apartments offering cigars to a group OF
eccleslastcs. declined with NO Your Holmes
aghast the Pope with twlnkiing speed replied; AN.
my good Bishop. if it were vice you would nave
Their is temper toward our prosenmtoT,fb m ,ba Whirh aT
Jus edge of hypocrisy, for cant may also wear silk
and dine sumptuousy. OF the Puritan lliG con-
The same cause: ieza aiirmed TO the Queen 2t
Navarro: May please Your Majesty TO remrnprr; ;
many hammers" our forefathers, Where shall we
Sey n5en becds @1 wns yn% ahr can do upon
Your fngers little further back and II ,hcTe is snT no
Trey are after the order Of Meichisadec. But
who shall be your Atlas to stand up under TINS
fear to be as that MehGdst rava mniSer haS
| great subject. but it has caved in on me- d'aush-
| ter)
| WHAT PURITAN" STANDS F)I.
First in London and about li6i the Purtans
| received the nickname that was TO become talis-
| man. But that for which the name stood. Of pure
ness of public law. of religious ceremonial OF
| private life. was wider than any Tudor domain.
1t was international In the name Of the riThs ,Sb %,
divers tongues and in in many lands; 4,;,,oro, Scotch
welsh. and withai they had the sinSws Of the men
of IIaarlem and Leyden OF that people Whoh potn ~
| 1000 century in the That people who edu,
Gated for the English throne the logical and moral
celaneo1s eer HI ne Of nsish royalty goes
Rm. II our IA fathers-poygiot iecomlng Pentccost-
! were all these they were more-they were them,
sGSe s:1 6rn InSy qT Ha' samS haes ,Rcy mpore
Things were homemade her l5rt fully ana thahk PIX
fully owning the composite metal which Goa mas mas
| brought out Of the cruciplc let US take that type
OF the Puritan which we know best ,tr,r d,o M, 90
out from the Church as by iai tS'ahsned, ny ny
| scribed they were the stanchest uphoders Of the
Crown It took them sixty 9ier ,,y yearS ar conn o @ cnr
| in princes What that selfish Queen would nave
nannsei and their courace they were the surest
| buttresses of her menaced throne. John Stubbs
the calculating Irritation with Philip ll-ihai sanity
demon.-and for his offensive painnesS was h,,- STm-
demnel lose his hand He wrote plea pleas as chp, h,
aros any that S1gy b G9ud hfTf TuaG er Se
mntilatton' John Stubbs waved above his head
the S1dns ad saSs blood ana cIS ani so
| That was Puritanism then. -. ., =,
the Commons in 1919, down through Eliot ana m
Hampden and Pym the voice sounded out aMd on nor iDd
| resolute These men knew bonds and mntlaiioAs
and the loss Of all things They cr0wHed sg
| They dwelt upon intimate terms with death They
WsTs Wbaft fnrrle lerde9 over Gods hcragc their
! victims were constant That bad triumviraie.
| Finch Strafford and Land tormented thel' pu' '"e
| cause grew and multiplied
CROMWELL AND HIS WORK.
| Came James l. OF odous meanness. Of adroit du-
| pIicty OF unspeakabie prohgacy; came Char.es l.
| that master OF indecison. model Of stubborn IT.
| resoution-the James buchanan OF the seventeenth
| century Charles called the martyr supple IN
| eouvocation a liar by wholesale and retail with
royal disregard Of oa;hs and regal ncapacity Tor
| apprehendng that the word was moving ferhdy.
| sycophancy. usurpa,on went on; star 'hahoer anu
| Court Of High Commission. differing IN name oi''
from Inau,sition were blind to the writing on the
| walls And Cromwell came. the soul ana hst Yi
political purtanism. OF whom Iahe SaFS man
after the thing itself. real, curt masterfui drec,.
With wide deep eyes ne say 'nCsg co gaS ga give what
rils h rnnd not receive He passed. They spiked his
tTipG had ne otber human protector 1t seemed lost
But not lost; ior the Perrnament neIu',5 ST 6e
words The downfall OF absolute hoharcnsi uo h
assured preponderance Of the COMMONS i1 am ' az
permanence of religious freedom -these hs,rn "a, as
the tripod Of English liberties Under the c2mpos.
Of the Restoration lay the sure n nG snGa his
successors in Golden. Bright and Gladstone lAp-
Pe"ns lhe name Snrs OF lSa, 70 great eat e@ncpaioT
But John the Baptist was gont. "ia ~ m !tho Ieeks
the Me'e garics and the cucumbers" and Whitehall
again reeked with gay orgies All hnsS nsiiru 10
subservience to France rose TO food mat no, not
the genius Of Clarendon eoa a on n'e pivot
adulatlon revamped its basphemies; then Char'es
oTk Tept 10 do in Win hs sad s But at last England
very nausea had Learned the impossipEy ny ., y,r, M
At last the petition Of RgntS % no had knr FViD cam
corrupt Puritanism had wrought well ihofs os, nae hac
been excesses vagaries, absurdlties partly pos, me-
and partly Pr9pr h9G oq l The fGr pen G"G Of d5n on
from the Book Of Sports TO the WORD OF God ani Y
isef IS 40 the the Puritan alone England the
whole freedom Of her cSns'itutiSn ., .,,norv
and zea' found It's avatar in the Ironsides Up from
| Lincoln and Norfolk and Essex and Kent swarined
ihn men whose slres WyckliH had emancipated and
who had stood to their pikes IN thT Lew @onhniy o
sgmoTsts e life had been to them stern and
strenuous but they had been ,schooed In TIE ierse
directness Of the English Bible. and uplifted by by
lis motive It's appeal its boundless scope. They
did not like imagination or hope Easily they
! adopted its figures and It's terms. They too
were frontng Philista and Babylon. Tney made
! their own the words Of Joshua and Jehosaphat l.
and the eXultant paeans OF Miriam and Deborah
They gripped their stout tools at Naseby and al
| Preston with the challenges. quit you. like men.
"ind their kings with chains and their mobiles viii
fetters Of iron and between the sea and the hillS
| they set their high psalm. Arise. God. and
ie, thine enemies be scattered and wrenched the
Victory at Dunbar. Npplause)
We'll did Curtis. whose silver buge is alas
! sllenced say OF them: III they shuttle in prayer
they smote in the fight; II they sang through theiI
May 2s 1850 the Parliament, army was d draw ayT
: then dishanded They would march no more
No more. Nay. evermore That spirit couic
stand fire Lexington Green; to 'hrs for Goa;
"a man the stone walls Of the Boston Road: snatch
ing their flint locks by the barrel TO win that we