The Republican journal., 1908-09-17

months pass, and winter surprises
them on the deep but brings them no
sight of the wished-for shore. | see
them now, scantily supplied with pro-
visions, crowded to almost sutfocation
in their ill-stored prison.; delayed by
Gains, pursuing circuitious route,
and now driven in fury before the rag
ing tempest on the high and giddy
wave. ! see them, escaped from these
perils, pursuing their all but desperate
undertaking and landed at last on the
ice clad rock at Plymouth, weak and
weary, for
The heavy night hung dark
The hills and waters DER,
When band of exiles moored their bark
On the wild New England shore.
And although storm tossed, hungry
and cold, yet they were not discouraged.
Amidst the storm they sang,
And the stars heard, and the sea;
And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang
To the anthem of the free
What sought they thus afar 3
Bright jewels of the mine
The wealth of seas (? the spoils of war ?
They sought faiths pure shrinel
Plymouth Rock underlies all America.
1t not only crops out at Plymouth. 1t
has cropped out a great many times i'll
our history. You can always recognize
it. Putnam stood on it at Bunker Hill,
when he said to the Yankee boys:
Don't fire until you see the whites of
their eyes" Ingraham had it for bal
last, when he put his little sloop be-
tween two Austrian frigates and threat
eneG to blow them out of the water if
they did not respect the broad eagle of
the United States in the case of
koszta. jefferson had it for writing
desk, when he drafted the Declaration
of Independence. Lovejoy rested his
musket upon it, when they would not
let him print at Alton, and he said:
death or free speech" Yes, the rock
cropped out again. Garrison had it for
an Imposing stone when he looked in
the faces of seventeen millions of
angry men and printed his sublime
pledge: Il will not retreat single
inch, and I will he heard" Dewey
used it for ammunition When he went
out in the darkness, into an unfamiliar
harbor, past powerful batteries, over
mines, the extent and danger of which
he did not and could not know, met the
Spanish fleet and utterly destroyed it.
1t has cropped out and become a
principal factor in National politics.
When Mr. Roosevelt erased Gin God
We Trust" from our coinage the people
said: THAT was mistake; we want
When the Jews in New York city sue
ceedtd by still hunt in putting an
end to the singing of Christmas an
thems in the schools it cropped out
and arose as insurmOuntable as the
Rock of Gibraltar and said to the
Board of Commissioners, ''Ihis is a
Christian country" and the damage
was repaired at once.
Ay, call it holy ground,
The soil where first they trod;
They left unstained what there they found
Freedom to worship God.
1t has cropped out again: and the
God-fearing men all over the land who
are fighting to rid the American people
of the greatest curse that ever threaten
ed 1.-THE saloon-have wrought it into
a banner, and on it are the words:
"Prohibition, The saloon must go!"
And it will 60.
Man will be MANA slave no longer,
Truth and Right than Might is stronger.
lam glad to welcome you today, de-
scendants of those who came over in
that storm tossed vessel: I am proud
that our ancestors were of such stock
that they preferred Truth and Right to
Might.
Lives of great men all remind US
We can make our lives sublime
And departing leave behind us
Foot prints on the sands of Time.
Again | welcome you, and truly say
your coming is pleasant to me.
Rev. r. L. Kimball made a fitting
response. Then followed a song by
Miss Ruth Kimball; reading, Mrs.
Chase; vocal solo, Miss Annette Shu-
man; report of committees; remarks by
Mrs. Mary Emery, E. S. Shuman, N.
S. Piper, Rev. R. L. Kimball, Mrs. l.
B. Chase and Mrs. Sarah Spencer; solo,
Rev. r. L. Kimball; poem, Mispah,
Mrs. E. K. Piper; solo, Mrs. Chase;
benediction, Rev. R. L. Kimball. Miss
Ethel Slavery was pianist.
The committee on ulme and place of
the next meeting reported that the
sixth annual reunion would be held in
East Belfast in June, 1909, at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. n. S. Piper.
Mrs. Isabelle Buker Chase was voted
an honorary member of the associa.
ton.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs. N.
S. Piper, Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel j. KIM
ball, Mrs. Mary Emery, Mrs. Elsie
Dusenberry. Mrs. Sarah Spencer, Mr..
and Mrs. F. N. Slavery, Miss Ethel Saw