The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-23

born In 1898, when Peter Bulkley was three years old. He published the Tenn ple, with the lines that so much disturb ed the censor
 Religion stands a-tiptoe in our land. Ready to pass to the American strand | Tn 1883, the very year Peter Bulkley
 was silenced by Laud for nonconformity,
 and was gathering his settlers for the founding of Concord two years later. | It seems almost as if Herbert were yearning for their company. The year after the year of the founding of liar ward, Jeremy Taylor won his fellowship at Oxford. The children of the Pil- grims still obey the farewell counsel
 of John Robinson, as reported by Wins
 low. It Is the Pilgrims declaration,
 and, if we read the worlds history
 alright, the worlds declaration of re- | ligious independence!
 We are, ere long, to start asunder, and the Lord knoweth whether we should live to see our faces again. But | whether the Lord had appointed it or | not he charged us as before God and | His blessed angels, to follow Him fur | then than He followed Christ; and if | God should reveal anything to us by
 any other instrument of His, to be as | ready to receive it as we were to re- ceive any truth by His ministry; for
 He was very confident the Lord had
 more truth and light yet to break forth out of His holy word"
 | But if there be anything in religious literature to match it, it is to be found | in the liberty of prophesyng of Jeremy | Taylor, composed, doubtless, about the same time, and given to the. world in 1647. Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living Is | the very portraiture of the Plymouth | Pilgrim. Indeed, when I behold his | sublime inconsistencies, and remember | that it was 150 years before any Pilgrim | or son of a Pilgrim uttered any word | of praise or boasting of what they had | done, I always think of the motto on | the title page of the first edition of the | Holy Living:
 l Non magma loQumur | Sed vivimus.
 | I wish in these days of national brag- ging and boasting, that motto of the 1 Shakespeare of the Diyines might be | pref1xed to Fourth of July orations | might be inscribed on the walls of ban quet halls, and even of senate cham bers.
 < I am, MT. President if not a Puritan of the Puritans, at any rate heretic of | the heretics. After the way that they | call heresy, so worship I the God of my l fathers. Yet I am glad to bear my tes- l timony that in what you have called | 'the gracious return of the Bradford manuscript" these two illustrious pre- lates have been no encouragers of her.
 esy or schism, but have acted in ac-
 cordance with the best teaching and | tradition of their church.
 | MT President, the giving back to us | these precious pages where the father and founder of New England has writ
 ter the story of her birth is no insig- | nificant transaction. It is the one best thing England could give, and the one l best thing we could receive. It is 1 token of a deep and abiding good will
 It will not be easy, in my opinion, to
 excite again the flames of hatred in the heart of either of these kindred people l toward the other.
 l There can be surely no breach of con- l fidence or delicacy if I read to this l company, although without his permis-
 sion, a letter I received last summer 1 from Archbishop Temple, archbishop of Canterbury and primate of all England.
 I cannot resist putting it on record. It should outweigh a thousand angry and l impatient utteranees of the press, as l an evidence of the real feeling which | prevails on that side of the water to-
 ward this country, and which is hearti- l ly reciprocated here. And I will add
 that during two recent journeys to Eng | land, where I met all sorts and condi-
 tions of men, l never received an un-
 kind and scarcely ever a cold word 1 from an Englishman.
 Lambeth Palace, S. E., I Il June, 1897.
 My dear sir: I am indeed most grat- flied for the kindness you have shown
 in sending the account of the proceed
 ings at the reception of the Bradford
 manuscript by the governor of Massa- chusetts. And the words used at that reception by yourself and by the other speakers will long burn in many English hearts as expressing the warm feelings
 which so many Americans cherish to-
 ward the mother country. Re assured that the strong respect and affection which is felt in England towards the great republic of the west, our pride in your greatness, and desire for your goodwill, although they may wax and
 wane, as human things inevitably do, yet will never perish. I pray God to
 bless the deep felt sympathy that links our hearts to yours and binds us closer 1 together than any other two nations
 ever were or ever will be bound.
 Believe me,
 Yours very sincerely,
 IF. CANTUAR."
 'The Hon. G. F. Hoar."