The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-07-04
SATURDAY, JULY 4,
EDITORIAL.

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The memorial stone
The John Robinsonof the John Robinson
Memorial Church at Gainsbor-
ough, England was laid with impressive
ceremonies on Monday, June 30 Ambas-
sador Bayard made the principal address
on the occasion consisting chiefly of
historical sketch of John Robinson.
whose name and character, the ambas-
sador said create a tie between those
who feel the kindred OF common Ian
guage and common thought" John
Robinson was an English dissenting
minister who to escape religious perse-
cution fled to Holland with his congre-
cation in 1908. They settled at Leyden
whence part OF Mr.. Robinson's followers
later emigrated to Plymouth, Mass,
in the historic Mayfower. Robinson
was born in 1915, educated at Cam
bridge University, and died at Leyden
in 1925. He was the author of that
celebrated saying. God has yet more
light to break forth out of his holy
word."-a prophecy which holds good
now that more than two and half cen
turtles have elapsed since it was uttered.
Mr.. Bayard made notable speech at the
meeting of the municipal council when
presented with the usual address. Re-
ferring to England and America he said
that craftsmanship could have no higher
goal or object than that the state of
things now existing should continue to
their children's children, adding that he
was in England as American ambass-
ador mot to discover diff culties but
occasions of agreement"
@OS
ITO all true men the
The Oountry's birthday of a nation
bntnuay' must always be a sa.
cred thing. For in our modern thought
the nation is the making place of men.
Not by the traditions of it's history, nor
by the splendor of its corporate achieve
ments, nor by the abstract excellences
of it's constitution. but by it's fitness to
make men, to beget and educate human
character, to contribute to the complete
humanity. the perfect man that is to be
by this alone each nation must be
judged today. The nations are the gold
en- candlesticks which hold aloft the can
dies of the Lord. No candlestick can be
so rich or venerable that men shall
honor it if it holds no candle. Show us
your men, land cries to land.
at is not for me to glorify to night
the country which love with all my
heart and soul. l may not ask your
praise for anything admirable which the
United States has been or done. But
on my country's birthday l may do
something far more solemn and more
worthy of the hour. | may ask you for
your prayer in her behalf. That on the
manifold and wondrous chance which
God has given heron her freedom for
she is free. since the old stain of slav-
cry was washed out in blood); on her I'M
constrained religious life; on her passion
for education, and her eager search for
truth; on her jealous care for the poor
mans rights and opportunities; on her
countless quiet homes where the future
generations of her men are growing; on
her manufactures and her commerce;
on her wide open gates to the East and
to the West; on her strange meetings of
the races out of which a new race is
slowly being born; on her vast enter
prise and her illimitable hopefulness; on
all these materials and machineries of
manhood, on all that the life of my
country must mean for humanity, may
ask you to pray that the blessing of
God, the Father of man, and Christ, the
Son Of man, may rest forever" Phillips
Brooks in Westminster Abbey on the
evening of the Fourth of July, 1889.
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"a SAD state of things
Crime and the now prevails in Chi.
Kindergarten cago," remarks the
Christian Register. "if we may trust the
statements of the Tribune of that city.
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