The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-23
CHRISTMAS DAY
IN OUR HISTORY
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, D. o.,
breaches Special Sermon.
WHAT OUR. FOREFsTHtRs DID.
The God-Iocarins coIonists of Three
Centuries A go Builded
Better Than They
knew.

Some one has said that there cannot be
found In literature single Christmas
sermon which meets the occasion OF
course, there cannot.
The occasion is the new birth OF the.
world. Unless the. preacher is comp2<
ent 10 say how Gar The world has 81
since its new birih-unless he eap'ewIi
prehend and declare the infinite - Soi''-
OF that Kingdom of Goa. whiSj eeatn .s.
s,iour OF men ...on,ses IA ,neH ehe ga ga
unless the same preacher World n I.. ana
The world as il was. 'the u can "tssi ~.
in darkness'-he cannot cope "io sa'
But history as great occasion" ,,,s-
such as a's no T pnipif cal preach sermon
INDEED s n" writer ws ssas SKIM aha % cam
regulation sermo as ,o-oas in7Ss
sion-ict us dip heads. and its applet I.s.
1 ha tnmps sea 'a accounts Of the
mas of 1890. son. 1T Shall DE the CHRIST
orations arg And the people whose csle.
d e hs E zea 81 s s5
William, IT scrap of history shall DC from
the firsa4 H8radfori's journal. deScrlShnS
of S..x$ Christmas of the Pilgrim fathers
plor;nH England. Observe. that an en-
The pl1 party has fixed on Plymouth as
s,roupYlce for the settlement. They have
and = II the Nayfiower with the women
ia Fifildren across from Irorincetown in
.day 1ymeuth Harbor. 1t was the ilrst
II they spent on shore
i'll Nunday the 18th. being Christmas
y. we began to drinkc water aboord.
n Ut AT night the Master caused US TO
ave some beerc, and on BOARD we
lad diverse times now and then Bcere.
ouf on shore noen al all
These people-wflo made Christmas to
! Zoe their first day of work i'll the, new
world-had called themselves six weeks
Before loyal subjects Of our dead sover-
eign lord King James, by the grace Of
God. of Great Britain. France and Ire
land king. defender Of the faith. &c.
AS TO THE KING
Let us see what their king was doing
al this time Here are some records
Dec -. John Chamberlain TO Sir Dudley
Carleton. In spite of penury. there is to
be a masque at Court this Christmas.
The King is coming from Theobalds to
receive the French Ambassador, Marshal
Cadenet, who Genes with a suite OF 400
or 500
Who was Marshal Cadenete Read. and
YOU will know. The Marshal of Cadenet
is TO be sent over to calumnate those Of
the religion dhe Hucenots) and to
propose Nainnle -i1eIlIiettS lOT liit
Prince" prince Charles.1 And again:
The King OF France at the end OF this
wear visited the frontiers of Picardy. in
this whole journey, which lasted from the
18th of December 10 the 18th Of January
new style. the weather was bad, and
those in his Majestys suite found the
roads bad" Change the style back to
the way OUT Puritans counted it, and
observe that on the same days. the 9th
of December to the Sd of January (old
style. those Americans in the suite Of
John Carver also found the weather had,
and the roads worse. Let us devouuy
hope that his most Christian Majesty did
not find the roads as bad as his suite did
And the King" continued the Mer-
cure. sent an extraordinary Ambassador
TO the King Of Great Britain at London
the Marshal Cadenet" (brother Of the
faVoIte IH"neSl He departed from
Calais on Friday. the first day OF Janu-
airy, very well accompanied by noblesse.
He arrived at Dover the same evening,
and did not depart from Dover until the
Monday after" christmas day, old style)
The English master of ceremonies had
sent twenty carriages and three hundred
horses for his suite II only we could
have had ten of the worst Of them at
Plymouth They would have drawn our
logs for us that half quarter of a mile
But we were not born in the purple.
AT London the Ambassador was led by
the Earl OF Arundel 10 the palace of the
= late Queen which had been superbly and
masniiicently arranged for him. The day
was spent in visits on the part of his
Majesty the King of Great Britain, of
The Prince of Wales, his son, and of the
arnhassad doris OF kings and princes rcsid-
ing in London" So splcndidly was he
entertained that they write that on the
day of his reception he had four tables.
with fifty covers each. and that the Duke
OF 1enDoN, Grand AiaStpr Of