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

He, too came from Pilgrim or Puritan
| stock. and from ancestors who settled in
Connecticut In 1910, When the Civil War
| broke out In 1851, he laid himself on the
altar of his country. lie entered the ser
| vice as u sergeant in the First regiment
| of Connecticut volunteers and won pro-
| motion up to captain for gallantry In the
| field. He participated in Banks cam
paign in Maryland and Virginia in 1851
| 9; was with Pope in Virginia in 1862; with
McClelland through MarSlnndi with
| Burnside In the Fredericksburg campaign
| Hooker at charlottesville: with Meade
| at Gettysburg: with Grant at Lookout
Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and
with Sherman on his march to the sea
| and northward. The military record he
made admitted him to the Loyal Legion,
the Grand Army of the Republic and the
Army and Navy club
tlis personal qualities made many
friends for him in civil life, as well as
| among those who shared with him the
tent and blanket in the field.
They were all New 1Inglanders in the
truest sense Of the word, for they loved
virtue, liberty and all that was good.
Let us bear them in grateful remein-
brance for what they have represented
In the military and civil life of the ma
ton. and in the social life Of this COM
munity.
address. the assembly stood for u few
moments in silence out Of respect to the
memory of the deceased members.
An incidental reference to the exsec-
retary of the board Of trade, Capt. -.
E. Athcrton, provoked hearty applause
With pun on strikers--eXcusable be
| cause OF its real cleverness and ap-
propria iateness-President Weles intro
t,,>. itTl 70,
toast. Rev. W. A. Stryker. y. D..
president OF Hamilton college. who had
for his theme, "rhe Modern Puritan"
| DR.. Stryher was warmly greeted as
lie rose to speak as follows:
Gentlemen | assume that YOU are not
here to exploit the title of those who ate
their first New England dinner out OF
doors, but rather to show that the breed
Of hrave-soued men persists. and with IL
reverence and hope like theirs. to face
and shoulder the load, however chatting.
OF the problems of this Iater day. and to
assert your moral lineage. in your loyalty
to the God OF wisdom and OF hope. 4\d-
ulation of those prog anitors Were but a
barren business. IL We. their progen".
make it only Il self-fond Substitute for
their vision and courage.
You are come to celebrate the spirit am!
purpose of that great movement OF The
seventeenth century which 'purGcd the
plague of lineal rule with fame which
gave iIampdeu and Eliot to history, and
he stout soul of Cromwell and the 'Or.
gan voice. Of Milton: which established
ideals whose potency after the recurrence
Of the filthy StliartS and the imbccility Of
the lianOvers We're confirmed in the Eng.
land of Bright and t;ladstonc: which sent
the Pilgrims over the bleak seas. and set
them as the godfathcrS of America ut
plymouth Rock; which planted freedom
ard obedience amid the gruritc nf "A new
and larger Englard: cut AT last the UNI
bilious OF dependency and by Il trcmen-
dous reflex taught democracy to the
mother Land; welded into unity the var
ions material here, and evolved II ncw
type OF characters; builded nation. and
wrought its ee'f-clnancipution in the most
proGieious and constructive OF all civil
wars: Subdusu Il continent: stood llp To
rend either ludes from melacva!i,m:
stands uu now To it's world-duty: which
faces with solemn confidence present
tasks, not doubling that il shall find in
them both ta vlndcoliou and its reward.
Cannot Learn Too Well.
What they were whose rOat lotions wee.
So procrcativc We cannot learn too we'll
nor testify too steadily. They have been
diSrArngod and houtcd ever since tney be-
gan, but tonight We ono" more hail them
ns IN ancestry in whose Footsteps We VII!
gladly lntrcn: 1t is Easy To challenG!
dead giants and to ita,i"isc their mis-
takcS: it is ,'eu easier to praise virtues
whose rXurtiuuS we rcnnlncc. and to liz
down upon a genrulo2, which had it's
original honor in those who wore home
spun anu iron Let the Sybulitc critics and
PUPPY r,uctiOnari"S VINO taStcn their At
tcHtiou upun some of the strident and
ncidul"is accidants of puitaniSm but
attempt to copy its stern vaorS. ard
they would say. with Nincaulty--'l'
had liit" reason to laugh who encounter
ed them in the hall of debate or on the
lirld OF battle
And ours were hut II sorry parody, II
ieastng where they tasted, taking the in
hcrtnucu they 81 atuhborH!y won. we
We're content merely to spend wha, they
earned. and To garn!sh their scpulchl"s
with theatrical zeal AMI tloriu words.
Their ,ihrous and masculine faith WAS
practical. and Of Il present tense. Rrso-
lutte ana un:pasmod" they interpreted
the age and the day by the powers OF a
world to come,
'Cnconvmcel hy axe ana sibbett
That al virtue was the pasls,
they stood equally for their responsible
tiles and their rights,
God makes his hammers of hard steel.
Some of the things they struck al seem
tp MS insignificant; hut the Thing they
struck Tor was the common wcal~the s;i-
Credness of man as man. In thar fer
mrntng time they may have lacked hu'
NOR, but they had grim honor, and when
all was dark but duty, they
"Bated not II jot OF heart or hope;
But steer"d right onward" t.'
Not 'preferrns bor,iase with ease, 10
strenuous liberty" they look the best
they could get and steadily sought IA bet
ter They We're democrats by instinct,
with an enthusiasm against All mere
precedent and plTTogativc that would OLE
literate ~ ignore Individual manhnod,
They saw that no man has ever lost 50
much that he has not something yet 10
lose. nor has gained so much that he may
not yet gain more. IT was because they
believed so inverteratcly in eternal justice
as the ally OF freedom. that they mixed
religion with politics When these do not
mix, either one nr the other Is good for
nothing,
Always Monitor.
one of our monitors Is the Puritan"
The Puritan WAS always monitor, and
admoniShes lis that our real coast de-
fence lies in looking whore he looked Tor
help. and in living as he lived to deserve
ii. Often in terrible extremes in ex-
trernes he was terrible, and loving oracr
and liberty under law, he was ready To
fight for a true peace even though that
two-handed engine ut the door might
shear him of his head. Thus our America
was made TO mean human opportunity.
with rights always matched. by duties.
While good men last who believe in the
rights OF men and in the rights of God.
who carry conscience into all affairs,
America will still have the answer To
those prayers that pierced the stern De-
cember skies of 1870 This spirit il the
salt of democracy, and of the earth. His
hands who laid the foundation of our
freedom alone can finish it, and bring
forth the capstone with shoutings!
And the substantial things which the
Puritan of yesterday intended, the Puri-