Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-22
Banquet of Society of May
flower Descendants.
AMBASSADOR BRYCE GUEST
Address by George L. Raymond, Gov
ernor of Organization.
READING OF FAMOUS COMPACT
Custom of Concentrating Deeds
and Character Of Forefathers
Approved.

The eighth annual dinner of the Society
of Mayflower Descendants in the District
of Columbia was given in the red dining
room of the New Willard last evening and
was attended by large number of the
members of the society and guests.
The guests and speakers were seated at
ia BILE on a raised platform at one side OF
the room and the other members and
guests were around small tables arranged
In front of the elevated table. The room
was decorated with flags. chrysanthe-
NUNS and American beauty roses. The
governor of the society. Prof. George
Lansing Raymond. presided. and after the
dinner made the opening address.
Remembering Ancestors.
I'VE are here to remember our ances-
tors" he said. How can we remember
them in such a way that they shall know
of it and be pleased by it? II they can be
present here at all it can be so only in
thought. Yet that this should be the case
is not inconceivable. In thought can be
at this moment in London or in Paris.
Nothing prevents my being there In reAo
ity except this physical body of mine.
Our ancestors have no physical bodies. II
In the realms of existence anywhere to.
with US in thought at this moment. If 30,
what is that in us which they may be
supposed to take interest? In our phys
ical frames? In the fact that we have in.
herited something of their Drawn. or
blood. or even of their brains? Do We
take any great interest in our discarded
clothes that some one has obtained from
us and patched up and changed so as to
make them fit himself?
"Immeasurably less interest in this
ha in mil uhefher n
or not. which we know has been influenced
by our feeling. thought. or character.
Some of us have left positions or occu-
pations which We're formerly ours. When
we find after we have left them that the
money obtained by ourselves has been
diverted to purposes different from those
for which we obtained it, that the meth
DDS that we introduced. the results that We
achieved have become discredited, can
any amount of attention given to our
selves personally compensate for the re-
gret that we feel, prevent our disap-
poptment in seeing the structure lnat we
supposed ourselves to be rearing FOR per-
manency allowed to go to decay and
ruin? All of US who have tried in life to
hold up what seemed large tning nave
probably found others hocking around to
help us so long as were present. but
found them, the moment we were called
away letting go and allowing the whole
to tumble. Our forefathers we're fortu-
nate in their immediate successors.
Grounding Precepts and Practices.
Our forefathers believed In grounding
all precepts and practices on right pr:n-
ciples because they were not satisfied to
embody in life anything not true to the
very highest ideal that God had Impress
ed upon their souls. ] like to think of
them as they started from Scroohy, gazing
wistfully out beyond the PROV of the
little ship that bore them to Holland.
gazing beyond the prov of the Mayfiower
that bore them across the Atlantic. gazing
beyond the rocks and forests that well
coined them when they cached New Eng
land. l like to think of them and of the
earliest pioneers who were their children.
with their eyes fixed less on the farms
that they were planting and the cities that
they were planning than on what was
beyond and above-the fields of living
green, the city coming down from God
out of 'heaven-the ideals after which
every worthy result in this earth is always
modelled. Those ideals can be ours to-
day and truly as they were those of our
All we need is to believe in them and to
dare to give them expression"
Reading of Compact.
The compact signed in the cabin of the
Mayfiower was read by ex-Gox. Thomas
s. Hopkins, and President Roosevelt's
Thanksgiving proclamation by Elder
Ewell.
When Gov. Raymond introduced AM
bassador Bryce the members and guests
arose and greeted him with enthusiastic
applause and cheers. In the course OF his
remarks he stated that the Pilgrim de-
scendents were more English than ne.
because he Is a mixture of Scotch ana
Irish blood. He spoke of the sturdy char
acter of the Pilgrim fathers and mothers.
prasing them for their courage, as well
as the purpose for which they endured
the hardships incident to leaving their
homes. in England and establishing In
given to this country so much OF the in
tellect, courage and moral character
which has made it what 1t Is today. de
said that the most noteworthy intellectual
efforts had been made by New Eng
landers as shown by their bold imprint
upon American literature, American poll
tics and American morals, but said he did
not desire to be understood as saying that
these characteristics were confined to
New England. or anything that would do
injustice to any other part Of the extern
sive domains of this country. He called
attention to the fact that New Eng
landers are now scattered throughout all
sections of the country in large numbers,
and are making their influence felt IN
whatever section they chance to be, while
Boston and different sections Of New
England are filling up largely with for
egn population.
kew. LIT. Samuel H. WOOQrO" spoke OIL
the pride in ancestry, and commended
the custom of patriotic societies in COM
memorating the deeds and the character
of the forefathers. He said 1t was also
quite as essential to live and form char
acters that descendants might also look
back with pride to deeds and the i'm
press made by courage and character
upon the present time in meeting Its
great problems.
The following were the guests and
members of the society present:
Mrs. Anderson, Miss Anderson, A. A.
Aspinwall, Mrs. Aspinwall, Mrs. Vel7na
Sylvester Barber. Robert B. Bennett,
Ernest w. Bradford, the British ambas-
sador. Mrs. Marion Burch. DR.. Charles
T. Caldwell, Mrs. Caldwell Capt. John
Doyle Carmody, Capt. w. w. Case. Mrs.
Case, Mrs. Jane D. B. Chany. Amos ].
Chapman, DR.. Price c. Clafiin, Mrs. Olaf.
lin, Miss Mary Durham, Rev. Dr. John l..
Ewell, Deputy Gov. s. E. Faunce, Mrs.
Faunce, Mrs. Ellery c. Ford, Miss I. K.
Glenn. Miss Mildred L. Hall. Mrs. Sarah
Alden Hall. DR.. Edwin A. Hill. Mrs. Hill.
Thomas s. Hopkins. Mrs. Hopkins. Rev.
Harry w. johnson. Mr.. Jerome F. John.
son, Maj. Henry NJ. Kendall, Mrs. Ken
dali. Ellis Logan, Mrs. Logan. A. NJ. Lo.
throp, Miss Lothrop Jasper Dean McFall,
Miss McFall. William Lowry Marsh. E
Southland Parker, Mrs. Parker. Gov.
George Lansing Raymond. Mrs. Ray.
mond. Miss Raymond. Miss Winfield
Roadway, Mrs. Bertha NJ. Robbins, Ed