New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-11

nave doubted myself re-exanined my CON
customs, reconsidered all the arguments on
sltner side. and still am obliged to adhere
cban ms nrs' Impressions, may say my long
Win some here whom / habituslly respect,
sui ind with me the men of the past
wnom the nation venerated. | stand upon
the ordinance of i7s7 There the path is
MARKED by the blood of the Revolution. |
stand in company with the Men of 81.
ue'r garments purple with the waters or
we keu Sea, through which they led us of
old. their locks stll moist with the mists of
me Jordan. over which they passed to this
land of promise"
must intrude upon your attention no
longer. The sole excuse for my presence
upon this platform at all is that am here
as the ;earer OF message from a great
Chief Magistrate of great and friendly
English speaking nation. (Cheers) And
vet ! am tempted first to quote kindred
utterance from one of the greatest Of HIS
predecessors. | do not select II from his
well-known writings or speeches-though IT
costs me pang TO omit the closing para
graphs Of the famous Second Inaugural.
every thought and almost every phrase i'm
which comes straight from King Janess
version. | take instead "A little known esti-
mate Of the Book itself. In the darkest
0oud cheers)-receved in the White House
a delegation of colored men who came from
Baltimore to give him Bible and said to
them:
''1n regard 10 this great Book ! have but
To say IL is the best gift God has given 10
man All the good Saviour gave 10 the
world was communicated through this Book.
All things most desirable for man vel
fare here and hereafter are TO be found
portrayed in it,
There has been no President since Lin
coln-there had scarcely been one before
who would not in varying phrases have
said the same thing.
My Lord. il only remains for me 20 pre-
sent to you and through YOU TO this great
audience the message | am commissioned
10 bear YOU from the elect of ninety MILL
ions. the President of the United States
0oud cheers)--dated from the White House,
Washington. March Z. 1911. and addressed
TO The Tercentenary Celebration Of the
Publication of the King James Version.
Royal Albert Hall. London. England. II
IS as follows:
II affords me very great pleasure to pre-
sent, through Mr.. Reid, my congratu!d-
tons 10 those WHO in the mother country
are commemorative so signal a historic
event as the publication of the King James
version OF the English Biole. This Book OF
books has not only rel5ned supreme IN
England for three centuries, but has bound
together ~ nothing else could two great
Anglo-S Saxon nations-One IN blood. IN
speech and in a common religion. tCheers:J
our laws, our literature and our social ne
owe whatever excellence ther possess largely
10 the influence OF this OF. chief classic
,cheers)- CknOwledged as sucn equally on
both sides OF the
Americans must therefore. with unfeigned
satisfaction Join in thanks giving to the God
Of the Bible who has thus bound together
the Old and the New World by so precious
a tie. | can speak, | am sure. for my
fellow counrymen in congra tulating you
on so significant Commemorat OF. Cheers
WILLIAM Il TAFT.
Renewed cheers
In response 10 a request of the chairman
the audience rose to their feet and APP
plauced for a minute a. acknowledge
ment OF the message from the President OF
the United States