The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-18
pURETANS OF ENGLAND
WHO DID NOT COME OYER IN THE
 MA YFL OHER,

Address Before the Congregational Club
 bv Rev. pr, A. H. Bradford-ToId of
 the Struggle by the Puritans Who
 Stayed in Ensland-The Character of
 Cromwell.
 The Congregational club celebrated
 Forefathers' day by a supper last even
 ing in the Dwight Place church, follow
 ed by an address on "The Puritans Who
 Did Not Come Over in the Mayflower"
 by Rev A. II. Bradford, D. D., of Mont
 clair N. J.
 Preceding the address the meeting
 was regularly opened in the body of the
 church by the reading of the minutes of
 the last meeting and balloting for new members The following members were
 elected: Rev. John P. Deane and Pro-
 lessor John w. Wetzel of the United
 church and Henry L. Bradley (West- yille) of Center church.
 The choir then rendered several selec- tions of old-fashioned choir music. The president, Rev. MT. Clark of Whitney ville then introduced Dr. Bradford, who spoke in part as follows:
 'The subject for this evening is one of very great fascination to me- We all know more or less thoroughly the his tory of our Puritan fathers who came over in the Mayflower, bringing with them the principles and thoughts which l1J Q fpnn try. But when we consider the kind of herosm required on the part Of those who were loyal in England to the same principles, who Gid not cross the seas, but remained in the country ot thelr persecution to suffer and endure, we De- gin to realize that the hardest part ot that battle for conscience sake was fought after all by those Puritans who did not come over in the MaytloWer. In England, in the time of King James, there was something to be dreaded more terrible than the Indians the Pll- grim fathers met when they landed on these shores The men who came here had achieved their freedom the moment their feet touched the land, while those who remained over there had a long struggle before them, which has hardly been fought out to this day The strug- gle which began in England before Eliz- iabeth in the reign of Henry VIII. and extended even to the latter part of this century records a succession of con- quests for the freedom of the state, the freedom of the church and of con- science. so that we might have purity, reality and individuality in our lives.
 ..Rut who were they that did not share in the memorable voyage Of the Mayf1ower, but who led in the move ment which brought the Pilgrims to our shores? One of them, the greatest man of them all, was the venerable and hon. sored pastor John Robinson. He has left behind him no sermons, but he has left d collection of essays meaty and full of beaten gold as are the essays of Bacon, the greatest, Wisest and mean tesH of manlxind.' And I have so char acterized him not without reason, for 1t was Bacon who said of the Puritans not sixty years before their triumph, sBy the grace of God the sect of Sep aratists is now become almost un- known This is he said of that sect which was to raise the greatest army | the world has seen, to establish the | DG1TQdnGlI Supl ol lIllsoletHb epSih | the seas, and by these means to reduce | that country to righteous peace" < Dr. Bradford then characterized the | genius of Oliver Cromwell. "He was possessed of the idea that ignobility could never be matched against nobil- | ity, and that his only hope was to set against men of honor men of religion. 1 And that was the origin of CromWells 8 | Ironsides, the company Of men who de- bated and prayed and then went out to victory"
 He then went on describing this man, s.the kindliest soul that ever lived in Great Britain, meeting and praying with the Quaker prophet Fox and the psblood broC herhood'' that existed be- tween the warrior and the poet Milton between the hero of Naseby and of Marston Moor and him who in his blindness wrote, "Tf1ey also serve who onIy stand and wait" Cromwell was the man who made Washington and I,incoin and the American republic pos sible.
 pr. Bradford closed with an enumera- lion of those who carried on the work of reform and revival of religion down to the present. Isaac Watts, the philos- 
 opler and poet and essayist, who, with Philip Doddridge, provided the hymns and prepared the way for the great evangeIstic revivals under Wakefield and the Wesleys, was also the forerun- ner of men like John Angell James and Robert w. Dale and Parsons of York and Andrew Reed of Wyciffe chapel, and a company of others who have in England attained names like Beecher and Bushnell and Storrs on this side of the water.
 1Iet us not forget, therefore" said pr. Bradford in conclusion, "our breth- ren beyond the sea who have fought the battle, enduring the perils of body and the greater spiritual difficulties in order that they might spread to the bounds of the world a government that is free and a worship according to conscience after reality and righteousness"
 THEFT OF A DRESS SUIT CASE.