Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1910-02-24
Washington's Birthday
Celebration.

of A., honored the memory of the Ma
tion's hero, Washington, by after ding
services in the NJ E. Church last Sum-
day evening. Rev. ]. F. Anderson, pas
tor of the church, who is member of
of the Camp, preached most excellent
sermon, to large and appreciative au-
dience. Following is Rev. Anderson's
discourse, George Washington"
Astronomers have grouped the stars
into consultations so that into some
ninety such groups all the heavenly
bodies are included. The visible stars
are the graded and classified according to
brilliancy. The brightest ones are known
as stars of the first magnitude, the
Others as of the second, third, and up to
the sixth magnitude, the latter class
being mads up of those least visible to
the unassisted eye. While in the latter
groups there are unnumbered stars
stars of less brilliancy, there are only a
very few that occupy first place-less
than twenty, possibly only sixteen, stars
of first magnitude There are millions
of the lesser lights
So are men divided and classified.
They are grouped into consultations.
They shine with varying degrees of
brilliancy, from the first to the sixth or
sixtieth degree of magnitude.
Here in the American constellation,
with the United States as subdivision
there are many brilliant stars. The
names of fifty-sx of such fash like dia-
monds from their settings in the Declare
tion of Independence, where they have
been engrossed, each by the hand of it's
author. There are many other brilliant
and glorious stars flashing from the
the pages of American history upon
which we cannot fix our gaze at this
time. But blazing forth from the
American constellation there two stars
which outshine all the rest-stars of
hrst magnitude their names are George
Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Viewed from the standpoint of patriot
ism and craftsmanship they are easily
first, and must ever hold place at once
unique and glorious in the history of this
western world and in the affections OF
the people of the United States. In the
minds of many persons these two names
are about of equal Importance, and it
may be a debatable question as to which
of them holds the pre- eminence. Both
of them were men of Providence, raised
up for a special purpose the perfor-
nance of a stupendous task, and God
was not disappointed in either of them.
The task of one being, the emancipation
of the American colonists from the OPP
pressions of foreign power and the
government the task of the other
being, the emancipation of the colored
slaves of this Nation, and the preserva-
ton of the Union, when the ship-of-
State was going to pieces upon the rock
of slavery. The task of the one, the
founding of "a nation; the task of the
other, the prevention from dsintegra-
ton of that nation.
We put the name of Washington first,
not that we concede to him superior
craftsmanship, patriotism or intellectual
ity to that of Lincoln, for in some par
ticulars he was hardly the latter's equal,
but we put Washington first, because he
gave to the world new birth of free
dom-founding nation upon the God
given rights "inalienable rights of life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness )"
and a Nation to-day second to none
other on the face of the globe.
We venerate this name as we do no
other American name, for Washington
has been rightlully recognized and worth
lily titled, "the father of his country"
His native modesty, his immaculate
goodness, his singleness of purpose, his
nobility of heart, his invincible courage,
his dignity of bearing, his unchanging
devotion and loyalty to his country, the
candor and soberness of his thought, the
trustworthiness of his deliberative mind
and the accuracy of an unbiased iudg-
nent, the sublimity of his character, the
intieXibiltity of his resolve, his undisput-
ed and undoubted purity of patriotism,
and his massive manhood, have won for
him the euconums expressed in the un-
dying werds of the resolutions adopted |
at his death, First in war, first in
peace, and first in the hearts of his |
countrymen." Numerous writer's have
expended their best efforts in trying to |
delineate the character, and chronicle !
the deeds of this illustrious citizen. !
Literally have the best of these bio |
graphies been translated into the differ ,
ent languages, so that peoples of all ma
tions have become conversant with the !
life of this incnmnarahln Annrinnn m |