The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-19

while the active members of the COM
pany trooped into the hall when three
rousing cheers were given them.
Rev. DR.. Willard Scott delivered the
invocation and all sat down to enjoy
the good things set before them by
the Worcester Brass Band discoursed
music.
Capt. E. G. Barrett raped for order
when he rose to welcome the guests,
which he did in bis usual gracious
manner. He gave brief history of the
City Guards and spoke of the days OBJ
iservance and referred in complimentary
terms to the company's guests and the
gentlemen who had agreed to speak at
the post-prandial exercises. In closing
he paid due tribute to the honorary
corps and told of their labors when the
company was at the front. He said
the affair was to be entirely informal,
no set toasts to be made at the eXer-
cises. Rev. DR.. Willard Scott was
called upon as the first speaker of the
evening. He said:
Il shall take as my text. The min
lister as human person and life as a
human minister 1 appreciate the con-
troversy shown me and will tell of the
old-ttme minister who had great hopes
of the world set before him. He spoke
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his people. He took his Bible for text,
his almanac to tell him when Sunday
came and a democratic newspaper for
an example of total depravity. He was
| an insulated kind of fellow.
The minister of today you see him
occasionally in a clerical garb as you
military men don uniforms oftener he
is plain citizen as you are.
Il like to think of old veterans as
! furniture men as license commission
ers as fellow citizens at all times. That
is what a minister ought to be. Have
| our ministers and our soldiers, our rep
resentative men and those not repre-
sentative men and all our fellow cit
liens, hail fellows well met good
| hearty people of the republic. In try
| ing to get over old notions and feel
that all the time eternity as we go
| ought to do we should do now The
business of all life and religion is to
make life blessed I've heard a good
| deal of preaching that is indistinct We
1 have great deal Of wonder of it but
! If there is any good in it why not have
it now? In a theological institution a
teacher says that the ward satan did
not mean the devil but an adversary
whom we should overcome.
| II like to go to these affairs because
| it brings me in contact with people.
A great many people 1 know but 1
wish to know them better and better.
| Mckinley is a great national hero.
He grew up in east Ohio where they
wrought iron. He saw the mills round
about. The farmers were prosperous
when the mills were. He gave his life
to making industry and to make mills
prosperous and through them the
farmers. When he broadened his view
| he looked for the betterment of the
people of tie whole, country as well as
east Ohio. He wanted to bring better
/ conditions tc Cuba and then the Phil
| ippines. That was the religion / have
talked about. The Catholic priest or
| Protestant minister who lives apart
from his people is radically wrong. He
| deposited his money and heart in a
/ banking house and later drew his de-
post with interest. He had two chill
dren who left this life and he turned
to the great common people whom he
| loved. He loved all the people of this
country, the boys in the army, those
off in the Philippines, in the mills and
on the farm.
when the last blow came those near
him heard Nearer My God to Thee"
and his words, Don't harm him" to
the man who shot him. Break it
gently to her." referring to his loving,
devoted wife. He died but his memory
is enshrined in the hearts of the peo-
pie as an American hero and type of
American life. McKinley's life is the
life that you and should live. That
sort of fellowship is the best religion
on earth. We are brethren of one
one another, honest toward one
another. The discipline in this organ
ization Is good for you. 1 like the
word comTade. I wish 1 was young
again 1 would join your command.
1T is the lowly message that wins,
one that appeals to the people, for the
people, by the people in the name of
the son of man let US initiate and fol-
low him as his dear children.
TT is the flag that controls and die
tates the policy of this hemisphere
The Munroe doctrine as explained by
Roosevelt at Buffalo evolves not only
the right and duty of the American re-
public to defend sister republics from
the infIactions of foreign powers but
evolves also the idea Of not interfering
with them for conquests or other pur-
pose. All parts of hemisphere look
toward 1t for protection and with res
pect. 1t took you men out of the
country the time you went and the
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this hemisphere make us respected in
in this hemisphere and abroad. When
the United States went into conflict
with a foreign power it was a different
country than in it's younger days. Now
it has q standing abroad that it never
possessed.
I'VE at home know what you under
went while in Cuba changing from
private life to that of a soldier in
three weeks. It was then that the man
now in Washington was saying Give
them hell. boys"
Before the war with Spain the
Turkish government had taken from
the Armenians in Turkey the lives OF
several hundreds of its citizens and
stolen a lot of money from mission
aries. We had to go to the English
government to right that wrong. the
time has come now when the Sultan
of Turkey has to make amends ana
pay. The brigands of Turkey have a
missionary a captive. The Turkish
government stands ready to act as the
United States desires, and we do not
have to ask any other government TO
aid in making the Turks do what is
right This ransom will be paid but
will come back to this country.
Capt. Barrett introduced Gen. A y:
r. Sprague as being active In the OLD
company and active in the company
of the present day. The general spoke
of the former speakers, mentioning Col
Gle and DR.. Scott. In referring TO
Mayor O'Connell, who arrived few
moments previous. he said he was sure
the mayor in the future as in the past
would act in accord with his own con-
victions Continuing, he said; AS
member Of the City Guards carried
musket before the members OF the
present company were born. 1 have
an affection for all military companies,
but a deeper affection for your COM