The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-07-27
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION
FRIDAY, JULY II.
THE FANEUIL HALL MEETING.

four report closed last week with the intro
duction of DR.. Capen at the Faneuil Hall meet
ing. From this point we follow in regular order
to the closet
Stirred Patriotic Memories.
Rev. DIR. Elmer HI. Capen, in opening
the meeting spoke with eloquence and
deep feeling of the early history connec-
ted with Faneuil Hall; of those men
whose memories had made the place his
toric. Continuing he said. "And from
that time to this every infant cause
struggling for existence in the new
world. has been rocked into life in this
hail." (Applause.)
mot only in Revolutionary periods;
but in subsequent phases of American
history. people have been won't to flock
here to get inspiration from those great
leaders. 1t was Wendell Phillips who.
after few dough faces had stood here
and apologized for slavery. stepped upon
this platform and opened that great cru
SADIE which did not cease until after the
shackles we're struck from every slave in
the United States and the flag waved
over all the States, and there was no
master, no slave anywhere.
"What has all this to do with the
Young Peoples Christian Union? What
has all this to do with these great relig-
ious movements in Boston today? 1t
has everything to do with these move
ments.
oThey Believed With U.s."
1.-THE men who made Faneuil Hall ia
nous believed in the fatherhood OF God
and the brotherhood of man. Great
applause.) Because they believed in
those truths they lifted up the hand
against the mightiest nation on the face
of the earth, and built here nation of
freedom. (Applause.)
"Those men-Adams, Franklin. Jeffer-
son-whose spirit fills these places today,
and always will fill it, believed as you
and I believe.
at is these ideas that are built in our
great ship of State; and as these have
been the fundamental facts of our Con-
stitution, we have serenely sailed or to-
ward the open port of universal freedom.
And as our citizenship is pervaded with
the spirit of these great doctrines, we
may be sure that our institutions will be
permanent.
This is the lesson for you who come
here for the first time; that as citizens
of this great republic, as members of the
American nation carrying before men the
principles of your religious faith-that
these things are to enterinto your politi-
cal life and into your daily relations with
your fellow-men." Tremendous ap-
plause.)
Hon. Selwyn z. Bowman of Somer-
vile welcomed the delegates to the mar
row and crooked streets of Boston, and
said Boston had been slandered; he pre-
sumed the delegates expected when
coming here to see every other Boston
girl wearing blue spectacles, and to hear
them talk in Greek and discuss the
beauties of the Greek and Latin poets.
In Boston they used to say the dome of
the State House was the Hub of the uni
verse, but when he lived in Charlestown
the people there held that Bunker hill
Monument was the axis of the earth
sticking up through the crust. The idea
of education planted here in blood
brought to perfection that idea Of civil
and religious liberty incarnated in the
little red school house. Great applause
After the remarks of Mr.. Bowman the
audience sang America" when Rev. DR..
John Coleman Adams was called upon
to speak. He said an Adams ought to
feel at home in Faneuil Hall. All lovers
of freedom ought to feel at home in
Faneuil Hall. There was a harmony
between the thing Universalists believed
and the things which Faneuil Hall rep
resented. 1t was the ideas of Cromwell
which planted Republic here. DIR.
Adams said it was impossible to make a
slave out of son of God Almighty. A
man who was fit to be saved was fit for
an American. and man who was fit for
an American citizen was fit to be son
of the Almighty Father.
He called attention to the fact that
there had been a Boston which stood
outside and hooted and howled and
threw stones at those on the inside.
They did that when Wendell Phillips
stood up strong and grand and fearless
for humanity and freedom of mankind.
He likened the Universalist church to
those who were on the inside standing
for principle.
After the speaking the whole Conven-
ton adjourned to Christ Church. where
a story Of the church was given by Rev.
Mr.. Knickerbocker, after which the
Convention visited Cops Hill Burying
Ground.