The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-13

alty in the New World; and the ambi- tion of the king was to make the American colonies "the monuments of his reign" The men who enlisted for the enterprise were sons of noblemen and bore the title of gentlemen.
 Ia December 1906 three vessels, the Sarah Constant, the Goodspeed and Discovery, commanded by Captain Christopher Newport, set sail and crt ssing the ocean by way of the West Indies, arrived on the coast of Ameri- ca in the latter part of April They entered Chesapeake bay, and finding themselves in shallow water grew dis ccuraged about reaching the inland port until they found deep water near a point of land which they named Point Comfort, and in the new faith inspired in their hearts they sailed up a river which they christened the James and on the thirteenth of May landed on an island-rather an isthmus-at that time as a narrow sandbar connected it with the mainland and disembarking on the following day they began the first per manent English settlement within the present bounds of the United States.
 The limits of sermon will not per- init even an outline of the history of sermon is to set forth the spiritual sig nificance of the first events in our na- tional history, The experiences of the colony at Jamestown were marked by sacrifice and suffering. The heat and the malaria of the first summer proved as fatal to them as the cold and want of provisions proved to their successors on the shores of Cape Cod, Their food was scanty; their drink was unwhole- some water; their general condition pitt fable in the extreme. At times hardly ten of them were able to stand;" there were not on any occasion five able men to guard the buiwarks; the fort was filled with the sick; three and four died in night" by the end of the summer only forty survived out of the one hundred or more who landed. Re- Inducements arrived from England and revived their courage. Experience taught them wisdom, and they learned t9 care for their health. But the appar- entity adverse climate and attacks of the natives so discouraged them that, at one time they deserted the village and embarked to return to England but were met by fresh immigrants and so returned. So great, however, was the mortality during these first years that out of fourteen thousand immigrants who came within fifteen years only twelve hundred and f1fty-eight surviv- ed We should never forget the costly sacrifice to which we owe our national life.
 There were certain things learned in these early experiences which should not be forgotten. The first men who landed were almost all sons of noble men who had not been trained to la bor. Only four carpenters, one black smith, one bricklayer and a few labor CTS were to be found in the entire com pany. Captain John smith seeing the unftness of such men to found colony wrote to the London company saying: When you send again, I entreat you rather send but thirty carpenters, hus- bar dmen, gardeners, fishermen, black smiths, masons, and diggers up of tree Irocts well provided, than thousand of such as we have" Labor is natures first law; and the laborer is nature s first nobleman. A leisure class, called noblemen, can exist where there are la- borers and cannot exist without them; but laborers can exist without leisure class. Men who work with the hand and with the head are essential to so- oiety; men who do not work with hand or hear are unnecessary, There were no families among che first emigrants and they demonstrated the old fact that'it is not good for man to be alone. Wten families came and certain young wcn1en were brought over to supply the men with wives the colony improved in health and morals. The presence, the companionship and the care of women are part of the divine order in the welfare of mankind. Labor as a fun damental law of life and the family as the first institution of society are things never to be forgotten by any nation which seeks prosperity and perpetuity. The value of religion, likewise, these first settlers learned Among the first cclonists was the Rev. MT. Hunt whose "good doctrine and exhortation" was of great comfort and inspiration to the eolcny. Within a few years there was in the colony three ordained ministers and two others who had not taken or ders, Amid the struggles, sickness and sorrows of those early years the minis- trations of the gospel kept alive faith, courage and hope in the hearts of the people. When Lord Delaware arrived in 1910 to be governor and captain gen. eTal. he first fell upon his knees and offered a long and silent prayer to God, and then passed to the chapel and heard sermon A nation in the years of prosperity should not forget the place of prayer which gave 1t peace and power in the dark days of diversity.
 The spiritual significance of this set tlanaent is to be found in the senti- monts, ideas, convictions and purposes which found expression in the political principles, the civil institutions and the social and religious customs which came to prevail here.
 The old preverb that "man proposes but God disposes" expresses the course of this early history. It is well to note how far the event as a result in our nation differs from the idea which men first entertained Columbus sought a western passage to the Oriental world. The king of Spain claimed the territory discovered in the hope that gold would