The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-12-23
APpLAuDED UR. HULDURD.
tie Believes There i.a N obios Arbitrntion
Than Resort to Arms.

tie Believes There is N obies Arbitration
Than Resort to Arms.
Rev Merritt Hulburd 10 Gracs Church
Last night made reference TO the Venezue,
Ian boundary dispute aud the possibility
OF war between the United States and
England. HIS text was Hebrews II and Ss
'Of whom the world was not worthy"
In closing the sermon DR.. Hulburd re-
ferred to the address of Senator Hoar,
which was delivered at Plymouth Rock on
Saturday. Quoting from the address he
reminded the congregation that they are
English. The American people. he said,
are an Anglo-Saxon people. Even those
who did not come here from England are
largely of the same stock. He mentioned
the Swede and the Dane and the Norman.
He said that this should not be forgotten
and while America should always be Will
ing to interfere when a strong nation was
expressing weak one it should always be
remembered that there was o nobler arhi-
trament than resort to arms. At this
point the speaker was applauded.
The sermon proper was a rehearsal of
the story Of the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
The coming Of the Pilgrims, he said, was
not like that of other people. This conti-
nent had seen another people who, ami
mated by the greed of gold. had come and
succeeded In overturning civilization at
least equal to their own, when the Monte
zumas were overwhelmed.
This country and its people, he said.
was tho oak which grew from the acorn
which the Pilgrims had planted and every
thing that was worth keping was in the
compact that was signed and sealed in the
cabin Of the Mayfower. The prayers Of
these Pilgrims had not all been answered
and they were still pulsating against the
eternal throne Of God and awaiting their
answer.
He briefly refcrrsd to. that part of Eng
lish history v. developed the Puritan.
lie spoke oil the Eighth, and said
that Froude might defend him. but he
the speaker said would not II required
an advocate to defend a character who the
concensus OF history condemned Henry
the Eighth took the rights OF the pontiff
and used them himself. Then there came
Bloody Mary, who restored Romanism
again, and she was followed by Elizabeth
who took the English church away from
Rome, but established an EIizabethean
church This was a reformation that
sadly needed reform and it had 1t. The
Pilgrims would not, and did not conform
He called attention to the fact that dur
ing the same month that the Pilgrims land
ed Dutch ship landed cargo Of slaves
In the colonies of Virginia 1t was then
that the irrepressible conflict began that
ended with the late civil war. It was the
Dutch man-of-war-that went down In 1866,
| and the Mayfiower sails on.
| 1t was impossible he said. to tyrannlze
| over a people which has an open Bible. It
had shown its effect among the Lollards.
| the Waldenses and others. and history
would prove that a free Bible and free
| people always go together.
There was difference, he said, between
the Pilgrims and the Puritans. 1t had
T, been urged by poor students OF history
that they were the same, but this is not
true. The Pilgrims left the Church OF
England because OF its impurities, and the
| Puritans did not. The Pilgrims went to
Holland. the Puritans did not, The Pill
grims landed on Cape Cod and the Purl-
tans in Massachusetts, bay. The Puritanz
| prosecuted those who did not agree with
| them, the Pilgrims did not.
It was true that the revolutionary war
caused them to come together and made
thsm one, but be asked that the Vices el
the Puritaus would not be blamed on thf
! Pilgrims.