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timents by which the world still
profits. The thought of the six
teenth century was reform, and that
thought rightly understood culmi-
mated in the Council of Trent, one
of the greatest events in the history
of the Church. The thought of the
eighteenth century was liberty, and
that thought still sways the world.
Greece, in which land fourished
the flowers of culture and art; Rome,
the military camp where trod the
heroic legions of Caesar; Europe, the
malestrom of Kingdoms and En- {
pires; and America, the promised
land of the modern world, upon
whose altar burns the incense of
liberty; the greatest liberty known
to man.
America, no doubt, was commits
stoned by God whose solicitude has
ever been displayed in our national
crisises to flood the world with the
light and liberty of a self govern
ment. II was Gods Providence
that implanted the startling idea of
a round world into the quickened
brain of Columbus, whose dreams
portrayed to him the new world to
become the fortress of Christianity
and the beacon light of a higher
and truer civilization. Like all Sc
ers Columbus's eyes outrun his
generation, he received no encour--
agement nor financial support from
his native city Of Genoa, nor from
the King of Portugal, whose cooper
alton he sought; and when failure
was about to be declared to his en-
} terprise, Providence sent forth
star Of hope in the person of priest,
and to whom was revealed the sue
cess of the voyage, and who by his
: matchless eloquence enlisted the CO.
!, operation of Queen Isabella, chiefly
(. upon the elevated ground that it
was her duty for the propagation and
extension of the Christian religion.
Thus, the daring expedition was
actuated and inspired by the noble
8 impulses of seeking and discovering
new world to be dedicated to the
Gospel of light. After a long and
stormy voyage Columbus reached
the land of his ardent vision and
imprinted theron the first footprints
Of civilization, he then reverently
= knelt and kissed the ground conse-
D Grating it to the benificence of Christ
: ianity. Therefor, since the very day
J, of Americas discovery and success
e lively through all the crisises of her
history there runs the regal thread
of Gods Providence binding us ever
lastingly to the destined high place
v upon the theater of the worlds act
ion.
The next step in this marvellous
J. pathway, is found at Plymouth, the
ls landing of that heroic band of ref
/ ugees, who there planted the first
J. seed of civil and religious liberty.
j. To their everlasting honor, h e y
r erected the corner stone of our Ma
II tional structure (upon the open
bible) and adapting its commands
t, and statues, as the rule of conduct
e of the new settlement, and with an
le ancestry who drank so deeply at the
q fountain ofreligious principles, their
t, descendants grew upinthe rugged
le faith of civil and religious liberty,
1T fitting them for the pioneer hard
r ships which were to be encountered
L in planting a civilization now the
Or wonder of the world.
lie When the great struggle of IT'S
is came it tested their faith in God and
Of their loyalty to the principles of lib
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