Evening journal., 1902-06-02
OLD DRAWERS FRIENDS
HOLD ANNUAL MEETING
Church Vas Organized in l7OS and
lis Original Place Of Worship
Erected in l7ll

service the rev. n. r. OlAui, Ol Deld-
ware City, preached the sermon, and
the Rev. f. H. Moore, of Aiiddletown;
the Rev. Il. L. Hallett and John M.
Arters. Of Odessa, took part in the ex-
ercises.
Daniel Corbit presided over the af-
ternoon exercises. George Alfred
Townsend. OF Washington, d. c.,
Gath. read a poem commemoraung
the 1g1st year of the church. John V.
lCraven. OF West Chester, made an ad-
dress. About 900 persons were pres
ent
In l7OS the church was organized,
the first building being built in I'LL
The Rev. John Wilson was the first
minister. He was one of the original
members Of the first Presbytery organ
lied in this country.
Mr.. Townsend's poem, in part was
as follows:
small lis the world amidst the worlds
replete,
AS was the apple that the woman eat
But knowledge, boundless. juiceful IN
the bite.
still favors life with lifeful appetite
Far in the West our ohildren's children
rise.
Like to the brood expelled from Para
disc.
But tow'rd the East their intuitions
burn.
And to the East the wave will yet re-
turnl
Still do the wild fowl from the Arctic
steer.
To pasture in the salt depths year by
Still do the shellash fatten in the
sounds.
The foxes double on the yelping
hounds.
The ancient wheat fields yield their
flour still.
The broad ponds turn the old Colonial
mill.
The ploughmen whistle to the same
blue jay,
And in the stacks the blue hens chick
ems play.
In the canal the muskrats thick abide,
Meath the broad feeder where the yes
sells ride;
The railway sounds to every hundred
mails
The rock Breakwater shelters fleets Of
sails.
The shipwrights rivet where the war
ships lean
Upon the ways above the spare Chris
i fine
Our matches to the farthest nations
sent.
Our powder shakes the mountain con-
! tincnt.
The cannon of our forts on foeman
bear.
And guard the channel Of the Della
ware.
Part Of the nation in It's fame we wilma
In the near Indies or the far Pekin,
Fresh as the Lotus lilies in our seas,
We scent the future with our deshnies.
United States from Holland took ad-
dress.
Which had been styled United Prov
To Congress the States General led the
way
Before Columbus and America.
How like to Holland are our river
viewsi
Our dikes of cattle and our reedy
sleWsl
But joining earliest a nations
thought
We are the empire that the Dutchmen
sought
And they by Orange princes oramped
TO dearth.
Are unto us an orange to an earth.
Our boy. MacDonoggh. England did
confront.
In iron rain. to prayers. beat great
DUPONT.
Our stepson, Wilson, on the yellow
Sea.
Shakes out our flag to easy victory
The flag that knows no difference in
its stars.
And holds no slave behind its blood
secured bars.
Love thou thy neighbor than thyself
no less.
Is sum and substance Of Righteousness.
Those saints who to the churchyard
add their Crime
Moved tOw'rd the light in their imper-
feet time;
They had departed from a former date.
They would not 1.-THE nor transsub-
stantiate.
Resistance was their progress. Gods
decree.
A step toward the civil liberty.
Strike reveille as to the mnster drum
Christ never dead is in His childhood
comet
Sound trump to them who moulder on
their swOrdsi
"The earth and all its fullness are the
IlOrdsl"