The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-12-20

making the New England Puritan, and
he has been busy ever since 'toning him
down. The old negro, minister selected
as tho most important text IN the pipic:
"They got a-going, and they ; couldn,tI
stop The Puritan did not always know
when to stop. 'f " ''' 80"
| Puritan blood was n marvellous blend.
| 1t was a mixture OF tenacious, conscrva-
| tive Iberian; brilliant, quick versatile.
warlike, adaptible. proud, Celtic; and or
| dour Saxon. With all this there was
mingled n dash of Scandinavian; the
| hardest, fercest, most independent and in
| dividualstic, of all tho races of Europe
Look at an English map Of p1ace-names.
Notice the "bys:" DENLY, Derby. Scroo-
by, etc. These are all Scandinavian. So
are onc-fourth of all the names of places
| in Lincolnshire. Somewhat the same Is
! true of adjoining counties.
Where the Scandinavian names are
| thickest, the reformation took its deepest
| root, and calvinism flourished. 1t was tne
/ home of the round-head; while southern
Saxon England was cavalier, for church
and king. You may not like calvnisnl,
but it could always "set up line of bat.
| tle." Said a Scotchman to one who had
promised him a thrashing: II have no op-
| lection in the world to your thrashing
me, but, before you begin, 1 wish TO en-
press the hope that you are in perfect
health" A Britsh-Saxon-S n-Scandinavian
calvinist is an excellent man to let alone.
| This Rupert's cavaliers discovered when
they met Cromwell's 1ronsides.
| When the new variety had been pro-
| duced, 1t was isolated In host OF farms
and villages dotting the forests or New
| England. Here q Puritan race was de-
veloped. Natural conditions favored |
| economy, self-control, endurance, rugged
ness. independence, self-reliance, ana
! equality of oportunity for all alike. The
! son of the poorest laborer might become !
| ,,,i tnfc n
munity. Here the "village Hampden' be-
, came the statesman of the revolution
| Here the Puritan learned to found God
| fearing self-governing states and cities.
Early in the last century came the |
great westward migration. which dc |
Tocqueville described in 1890 as "deluge |
| of men, rising unabatedly. and daily |
| driven onward by the hand of God.' Then
the Puritan took possession of the land,
everywhere laying deep and broad foun- |
dations for future institutions. After him
came the flood of immigrants from every |
country of Europe. The newcomers saw |
the foundations so wisely marked out and |
| so deeply laid that they could not change |
them, if they would: and would not. 1t
the could. The Puritan had fashioned the |
mold They could only pour in and fill |
it, and take its form. This is one of our
finest grounds of hope to-day.
| The Puritan had marked virtues. and |
was admirably fitted for his time and
work. II we once lose the old Puritan
conception of free, individual. human |
soul. responsible directly and solely to the
everything Jehovah; if we sink in the
Baal-worship of a materialistic phistin-
ism. 1t will surely go very hard with us.
The Puritan at his best was not always
agreeable, and when bad, was outrageous.
"Father," said one of our best young cit
liens to his farmer sire, who persisted in
appearing on the village street in clothes
which looked as if they had been resur-
rected behind the barn. "Father, I wish
you would put on some decent clothes,
when YOU come into town. I saw you the
other day. and you looked like the devil
"Now, Asa said the old gentleman re-
provingly, "I didn't look quite as bad as
that, did 70" eyes. you did, SIR re-
sponded the son. "Well," answered the
father "if did look like the devil, want
you to understand I calculate to some
times" Not infrequently the Puritan
seemed to Calculate to-"
Revolutionary Days.
John Jay and Gouverneur Morris We're
talking one evening of revolutionary
days. Said one of them: "Did you ever
see such a pack Of scoundrels as there
was in that second continental congress?'
mo-" replied the other, II do not think
I ever did" These were some of our rev.
olutionary sires, whose widows until very
lately drew pensions from a grateful re-
public, and whose daughters are the
cream of society to-day. 1t tempts some
of us to form a more select association
of the descendants of Shay's rebellion.
The Puritan did his work, and did it
well. Our work Is very different, but just
as difficult; demanding no less strength
and wisdom, and far more tact, hope,
wisdom and patience. We must aSsm-
ilate those whom Puritan institutions and
Puritan prosperity has attracted. We
must not merely govern. we must educate
and elevate, or they will drag us down.
This Is a truism.
In neighboring town a woman had
made the round of the churches staying
in each one as long as it listened sympa-
thetically to all her complaints, and sup
ported her literally. When she APP
preached the leading man in the last
church and Informed him that his chruch
represented the only true faith and doc
trine, he said to her: MADAM, I'm very
glad that you have seen the error of your
ways, but as to your joining our chruch,
just at present we've done taking in."
often wish that we could be "done taking
in here in America. but that seems I'M
possible.
The work of the Titan Elijah was car
| ried on by the humane Elisha Compared
with the earthquake and fire of Iclijah's
; life, that Of his successor was as un-
obtrusive and noiseless as the still small
, voice. Yet the quiet. shrewd, lovable
successor probably accomplished greater
!. positive results than all his masters
, power. So We, recognizing the defects as
well as the grandeur of the Puritan. may
we'll pray: LET a double portion of thy
spirit be upon me-"
In introducing the next and final
speaker, Rev. Joseph ii. Odell, of this
city, President Welles said:
However much we may venerate those
who came from Old England to establish
a new civilization, We cannot overlook
the fact that England of the present is
sending to us some of her best blood.
The question of assmilating in the state
and nation those coming from the south
of Europe gives us much concern for the
future. That fear does not enter our
minds with reference to those coming
from England for they are flesh of our
, flesh and blood of our blood and are late
comers from the land of the Pilgrims and
Puritans. We welcome them and they
share with us the task of perpetuating
that which is best in our land. They, too,
infuse new life into our free institutions
and will aid and strengthen our faith in
3 the perpetuating of our civil and religious
liberties. The Anglo Saxon race and the
English speaking people are destined TO
rule the world / take pleasure in in
Producing to you one who has recently
made Scranton his home ana field of la
Dor, Rev. Joseph H. Odell, who will now
address MS on New England and Old
England"
2 1t was Rev. MIR, Odel's first time to
be heard, at length, outside of his pull
pit. He at once proved himself no less