The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-12
WERE AT PILGRIM SHRINES.
WELCOMED BY REV. D. 1T. JAMES, FORMERLY OF FAIR HAVEN.
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 The following from the Plymouth
 Free Press. of last Friday. tells of the
 visit of six hundred representatives of
 the International Congregational coun-
 cil to Plymouth, Mass, and of the well
 come given by Rev. D. M. James, a
 former pastor of the Second Congrega-
 tional church of Fair Haven, now pas
 tor of Plymouth church, of the Pilgrim
 age and the other exercises of that very
 interesting occasion
 The pilgrimage to Plymouth last Fri
 day of the International Congrega tional
 council, or at least of about six hum
 dred representatives of that body, was
 a graceful and fitting end to ten days
 of fraternal counsel, brotherly greeting
 and genuine hospitality. On reaching
 here local committee from the Pil-
 grimage church was in waiting, and
 drags, barges, private carriages and
 street cars were freely at the service of
 the party. The first trip was to the
 hill, where, silhouetted against the blue sky stands the massive monument to the forefathers. Here Rev. D. M. James presided, speaking words of wei come as follows:
 Ladies and Gentlemen: It is my grateful privilege to welcome you as pilgrims from many lands and from many parts of our own land to this one land of the Pilgrims. Our fathers the ancient Pilgrims, came to Plymouth by WI If come to Plymouth by way of Boston, New England. They journeyed hither in spite of conspiraeies; you have jour neyed hither surrounded by courteses. The welcome you received by the civil authorities of the newer Boston stands in marked contrast with the welcome our Fathers received by the civic au- thorities of the older Boston.
 After meeting for eight consecutive days, in crowded city, for instruction concerning the relation or our church to civic and religious questions, you gath CT for the first time in this ancient town, for inspiration gathered from the scenes where our civic and religious life began in this western world. Around this national monument to the Pilgrim Fathers you fittingly gather as an International council, represent ing the Pilgrim faith. By their lives and in their death the Pilgrims made this land sacred, and on this historic ground a grateful people erected an enduring monument fin remembrance of their labors, sacrifices and sufferings for the cause of civil and religious lib- erty."
 Could the men and women in whose honor this granite monument was erected, and whose names appear on its polished surface, speak, I am sure that Carver and Bradford and Brews- ter would voice their glad welcome.
 Long and oft they watched from these heights for the coming of friends from the old world. Glad were they to share with these friends their homes in the wilderness and their liberty in religion.
 We stand in the presence of five ma jestic figures wrought in endearing granite. We greet you in the name of Faith, with her finger pointed heaven ward; Morality, founded on religion Law, administering Justice tempered with Mercy; Education, founded in Wisdom and fashioned by Experience: and Freedom breaking the chains of Tyranny and fostering the blessings of Peace
 These figures. the one standing on the main pedestal, with her foot upon the Rock; the others seated at her feet, ministering in her name, represent the cardinal principles on which the Pil- grims founded their republic.
 These principles have been wrought with lasting fame, not on tables of stone, but on fieshly tables of Anglo Saxon hearts. These principles were not peculiar to the Pilgrims, but their heroic endurance to perpetuate these principles was peculiar. The May flower in midwinter facing the terror of wonder sea was but a symbol of what 1 ouf Fathers faced in their long and l bitter struggle for civic and religious freedom. The good ship anchored in this goodly harbor. The brave men and women founded here a goodly re- public
 Many places sacred to lovers of Ply | mouth history are clearly seen from this commanding position,
 Directly in front of this monument | lies Clark's Island, where they spent the first Sabbath. To the left is Cap ] tain's hill, on which stands the monu ment of Myles Standish. At the foot of this hill is the Standish house; be- yond it is the house of John Alden and Priscilla while to the right of the hill are the towns of Duxbury and Marsh field, each memorable as being the home of many of the early settlers and the resting place of many of their mo- ble dead.
 In the name of the town of Plymouth, the churches of Plymouth, we greet you.
 To these historic shrines of noble to this sacred past, interpre- ted in the fuller light of the living present; to the enduring wealth of the larger republic of to-day, built upon he enduring work of the smaller repub lie of yesterday we bid you welcome. The people of this ancient town have committed to their charge a sacred rust. MT Capen in his address of welcome at Boston offered to you a part of the rock for part of Scrooby. We are Willing to give you a part of his, but we already claim a large share in Scrooby because the best in Incient Scrooby was the best in an- ,ient Plymouth. We make but few re- ,uests. Leave with us part of the