Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1913-04-10
EXCELLENT ADDRESS
BY DR.. S. P. Cadman-SubjeCt "Pur.
ltdn Of Two Worlds"
LAST THURSDAY EVEN IN C
The Address 0ne Of the Alma LyCeum Course
Number.

To faithfully measure the Puritan,
DR.. Caedmon rehearsed the history
of Greece and Rome with that of
continental Europe, showing the an
cestry and development OF the Puri-
tan type. He held that man today
was the product of all that had pre-
ceded him as the battleship is the
product Of the experiences Of all the
wars since the world began as far as
history has revealed them. But no
war, asserted the Doctor ever set
tied the principle over which it was
fought The American Revolution
did not decide whether or not it was
wrong TO put a tax on tea, but it did
decide that England could not do it
with the thirteen colonies The war
of 1860 did not decide that it was
wrong to hold slaves, but that the
south could not do so without the
consent of the north. AS no war had
ever yet decided a moral issue, all
wars were simply a relic of an orient
al age which believed that might
made right, and those who favored
wars and battleships today belonged
to type 5000 years behind modern
civilization. War is the unconquered
enemy of literature, art and music,
and none of these can ever develop
while war is in progress, SO the Puri-
tan as known to us in America has
left us little of either because he had
graver problems then to solve; and
he solved them we'll because he held
latent within him the virtue, the vi
sion and the music of poetry; while
the imagery of his art was lent to
craftsmanship and the sterner STRAIT
egy of war. Through the Neither
lands and Belgium we find the richest
treasures of Europe in literature, mu-
sic and art gathered or produced by
the Christian Puritan who won his
| land from the sea and today still
| fourishes in a country 25 to 40 feet
below the level of the ocean water.
| The PHILOSOPHERS Of Plato and Soc
rates are the masterpieces of our
schools today, while the nations
which gave them birth passed into
oblivion long years before the north
ern barbarians produced an Alfred
the Great, a William Pitt, and Oliver
Cromwell, a George Washington, a
Thomas Jefferson or an Abraham
Lincoln, but the United States will
Just as surely pass into ioblvion when
; they forget that the Bible is the great
source and bulwark of our civiliza-
ton. What we need today is not SO
much strong man in the White
House as strong man in every other
house, that the rights of the individ-
ual may be maintained as even
greater than the rights of property
The Doctor spoke very learnedly
of our present knowledge OF astron
! omy, geology and the sciences to, tc
I demonstrate the greatness of The
work of Bunyan and Milton is pre-
ceding in their imagery the actua
h knowledge of science. AS proof tha
; the world today has not yet lost al
/, the superstition of the dark ages, h
: asserted that he could pick up liz
r ard in the back yard of the hotel an'
claim wonderful revelations of tn
occult as written on its back and car
rying it home to Brooklyn wit
him secure 5000 followers in thre
weeks. The Puritan was never mis-
led by too much culture. German
: went to culture and topped off wit
Il suicide. What America needs is no
: culture or education but regeneration
y Space forbids us to follow even fey
l. of the greater thoughts presented /
s. this address, which was sublime /
" Ire noapnifcence