The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-12

education which were their watchwords 1 and for the freedom for which they | contended.
 1 Burial Hill was next visited and Rev. | A. F. Dunning of Boston spoke earnest l ly and eloquently of the lives and ser I vice of the Pilgrim band, and told the
 story of the meeting here, thirty-four | years ago, of the first national Con- l gregational council, In response to his | call for those present who were at that l meeting score of hands were raised. | The Rev. John Brown, of Bedford, Eng,
 also spoke eloquently of the influence l of the Pilgrims in the old land, where 1 Christian faith and purpose have been | qliickened by their service and sacri- | fees.
 | The third service was held at the
 Rock, over which every visitor passed | in single file. Then pr. William E. Barton, formerly of Boston, and now of
 Oak Park, Chicago, spoke in part as | follows: It is fitting that this second | International Congregational council l should close it's meetings with an eX- cursion to this Pilgrim shrine. Ply
 mouth Rock belongs to the nation and ! the world, and to no one denomination still we gladly remember that those who gave this rock immortal honor were our Congregational forebearers, from whom we trace our spiritual line
 age. The imagination has no freer field for the retrospect of the past or a forecast of al. that is hopeful for the future than is afforded by our present situation, We stand upon the corner
 stone of our republic, and of our Amer ican free church institutions.
 In 1774 the tide of a new national spirit was rising among us. and it tloated Plymouth Rock from it's moor
 ings, and these thirteen colonies from
 their allegiance to its mother country.
 But years afterward the two parts of
 the rock were cemented together, and
 we cement them anew to-day in the
 fellowship of this hour. The Pilgrim
 who crossed the ocean and the Pilgrim
 who remained in Old England are one
 in history and tradition, one in Ian
 guage and religion, one in hope and
 destiny, even the half of the rock that
 moved is one in every atom of Its gran
 holds to it's bosom. You are bone of
 pui bUHe dild IleSil Ol Odl lltoL'
 Here in the gray dawn of a new cen
 tury, we Pilgrims of England and Pill
 grims of America covenant not to put
 asunder what God hath joined.
 Here, on this most sacred of Ameri- can shrines we declare that there are not fish enough in the Atlantic, there is not gold enough in the Klondike, to become the occasion of strife between us. Here. by the grand old ocean, we remember that a thousand leagues of heaving, tossing flood roll between us and any thought of i'll to our Mother land Here, we covenant that, fast as the Mayflower's anchor held her to this bleak harbor, through the first long perilous winter, our faith and our hope shall hold us true to our Pilgrim prin- ciples and true to each other and to our common faith and the heritage of our Anglo-Saxon civilization. Nor shall we and our children after us for get the obligations and privileges which the heritage of the Pilgrims has brought to us, till this rock itself shall crumble and be lost in the sands of the shore.
 Rev. Alexander MacKennal of Bow dFh, l1llS', ilddS etll cal lCpt dtulNDs III response. The party was divided for dinner, which was served at the Samo- set House Plymouth Rock House and in the armory. After the feasting, for which very quaintly gotten-up menu cards were provided, after the style of ye olden time, the company gathered in the armory where Rev. pr. E. G. Por- ter, of Lexington, presided, and with Rev Alfred Rowland of London, Rev. Martin Dexter of Boston, General Car rington. U. s. A.; Rev. Steven l.. De- sha of Hawaii, Rev, Albert M. Hyde of Toledo, O., and others, with Ply mouth choir, told over again the Pill grim story in speech and song. After an hour of sightseeing the party took the train for Boston with many ex- pressions of good will toward the Ply mouthites.