The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-22
In MEMORY OF WASHINGTON
ELOQUENT MEMORIAL ADDRESS
YESTERDAY by REY. DIR. SMYTH.

Services at Center Church Under Auspices
of Sons of American Revolution-seoond
Company of Foot Guards Attended in a
Ground for Hope.
Center church was completely filled
with a large audience at o'clock yes
terday afternoon, the occasion being
the Washington's birthday memorial
service arranged by the David Humph-
reys branch, Sons of the American Rev.
olution.
After a special musical service Rev.
DR.. Newman Smyth delivered an ap-
propriate address. The Second compa-
ny of Governors Foot Guard, with the
members of David Humphreys branch,
attended in body, occupying the front
seats. About sixty members of the
Foot Guard were present America"
was sung by the choir and audience
just before the address.
DR.. Smyth spoke of the comparative
ly short span of American history, He
spoke of the visit of General Washing
ton to New Haven while en- route to
take charge of the Continental army at
Cambridge, and referred to an account
of Washingtons reception in New Ha-
ven published in the Connecticut jour
nal at that time. That report states
that while General Washington was
here he reviewed a company of Yale
students and stated that they looked
| we'll. When Washington was in New
| Haven a second time, in 1889, compli-
mentary addresses were directed to him
by the legislature and also by Congre-
| gational ministers. In response to
these lavish compliments to his
achievements, Washington answered
that the achievements were due not to
him, but to a favoring Providence.
Dr. Smyth said that little men may
forget God, men of depressed intellect
may think that there is no omnipo-
tence and divine righteousness, but true
statesmen, great men, the men who
! bear the terrible responsibilities of fu-
ture generations yet unborn, as did
Washington, bow in humility and con-
fess that they are the agents of favor
| ing Providence This great truth
should be remembered at these memo
rial services. This country owes it's
liberty and it's prosperity to men who
| have bowed themselves before the liv
ing God, according to the higher law.
There is but one great and continued
battle through all the years of human
history. 1t is the battle for right.
The young man who would be wor-
pf yyI rn hn1 in
his hand for a brief space the staff of
office, who would be a true leader of
men must believe as did Washington
and as did Lincoln in the power of
ideas, in the omnipotence of right and
of righteousness, the highest of high
convictions Not the lust for power, not
the greed for spoils, not all the petty
ways of self interest and self aggran-
! dizement. These are not ways for
national prosperity. The way to sue
ceed is by the memory OF our fathers.
| DR. Smyth then said: This is not
the place nor the hour to discuss the
political questions on which, as always,
we differ in judgment. But no place is
too sacred, no hour too holy to rebuke
this lust of partisanship, this greed of
any nation, that in it's politics might
feed on the decay of its power, it's vir-
tue and it's honor. l denounce this lust
of partisanship. 1t is blasphemy
against the spirit of our nation. AS we
contemplate the glory of the past and
think of the evils, the unsolved prob
lens of the present, the signs of de-
cay in the nation, let us not look back
as though gazing on lost greatness, but
rather look on the present with high
hope and on the future with more earn
est expectation.
1T is never time to despair when
evils are revealed. When only a few
prophetic souls feel the burden and
shame of the evils, when the great life
of the country flows on careless and
unconcerned, then there may be occa-
sion for doubt But when the evil is
revealed, when our pulpits recognize
the vigor of our fathers policies of
Righteousness, as is now the case, then
there may be hope.
Let us cherish the hope that the new
humanity, the new spirit over the land
shall bring it about that brother will
no more contend against brother, but
of one spirit, of one blood they shall
work together, one country and one
civilization for the world. AS the lat
ter part of the century before this
marked the beginning of our era Of in
dependence, so may the closing years
of this century work what the world
has never seen, but has long wished
for, the holy alliance of the peoples of
= I,
of God to advance civiliza ton.
'"Those who have misrepresented US
in Washington for the last few days,
in regard to this alliance, remember
'Is this debating club where boys dis
pute,
And wrangle DER their stolen fruit,
The senate in which cloister of the few,
Where Clay once flashed and Webster's
cloudy brow
Brooded those bolts of thought that all
the horizon knew"