South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-01
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the worlds minstrelsy a love song that
has stirred the hearts OF men with
such an OverpOwering thrill as Annie
Laurie" You remember how beauti-
fully Bayard Taylor, in his Song Of
the Camp tells Of the British soldiers
singing this matchless song in the
trenches at Sebastopol during the
Crimean war:
They sang of love. and not Of fame;
Forgot was Britain's glory;
Each heart recalled a different name.
But all sang Annie Laurie
eve are proud. too, that Scotland
through it's immortal bard, Robert
Burns, gave TO humanity at large that
universal lyric Of good fellowship. at
sound of which men join hands, the
wide world round, and sing with social
fervOr, Aud Lang Syne.
After referring TO the beautiful
scenery of old Scotland, DR.. Barclay
paid a glowing tribute to the braid
auld Scottish tongue" and expressed
the fervent hope that none of his hear
ers would ever attempt unduly to rid
themselves of that glorious burr"
that is the very hallmark of the
true-bOrn Scot. The Scottish dialect,
he said for simplicity, expression and
Dealing with the teaching Of the
Bible and the shorter catechism in
the days of his youth, and the COM
pulsory attendance at dreary church
services on Sundays and fast days that
made life weary burden, the speaker
said that he had very early come to
the conclusion that if any one verse
in Holy Writ was truer than another
it was the one that said that 1t was
''by much tribulation' that we would
"enter into the kingdom of Heaven"
Still, who that had borne the burden
and heat of the day would willingly
be without the religious precepts that
were pounded into his brain in the
formative period of youth. Truly
like bread cast upon the waters"
they returned after many days to
mould and influence our later life.
The speaker then undertook to re-
flute the hOary SANDER that Scotsmen
are deficient in the Origination and
appreciation of wit and humor, assert
ing with great positiveness that h's
compatriots could make and take 4
joke and citing many mirth-provOking
instances to prove his contention.
Coming to The Land We Live In"
the 1octor declared that the United
States was a land of opportunity and
bOundless possibility, where true merit
is quickly recognized, and where men
are taken atstheir own face value and
given a fair chance OF making good"
The average American, he said, is
more tolerant and far less censorious
thai his Scottish brother; he will more
gently scan his brother man, still
gentler sister woman" The "unco
guild" and the "rigidly righteous" are
not in as strong evidence here as in
1.-THE land we left" nor do Holy
Willies' cut so wide a swath, thanks
10 the refining influence of our inter-
national melting-pOt
In the land we live in Scottish
! blood and ancestry are no bar TO
success; on the contrary, they are
rather a passport to American favor
and confidence.
1--WE Scots" added the speaker.
yield to no class of citizens in the
intensity of our loyalty to the land Of
cur adoption; but, at the same time,
we are not ashamed of owning that
we cherish an undying love for the
land of our bir n. Keep a sharp
lookout, my friends, for the fellows
who in a trice become such awfully
good Americans that they are very
poor Scotsmen. Such creatures are
not good citizens of any country. The
only redeeming act that they ever did,
perhaps. was when they left the land
that their presence disgraced. Like
the early convicts, who went to
Botany Bay in Australia, they could
with all truth say:
True patriots we, for, be it under
stood,
We left our Country for our country's
good 4"