The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1920-04-30
Holland Will
Honor Pilgrims

be either i'm the cathedral (the Peters
kerk or st. Peters church, or in the
great auditorium of the university.
There some of the foremost orators of
America and Of Holland are expected
TO speak. Proceedings will be partly
in English (Which all educated Hol-
landers undcrstand) and partly in
Dutch.
After two days in Leyden the con-
grcss will move TO Amsterdam, where
truly regal reception awaits them.
They will visit the state picture gal
lery under distinguished guidance and
take part in religious services in the
ancient Bagynekerk (the English Re-
formed church,. where the remnant
of the Pilgrim community Chose that
remained ON in Amsterdam in 1920
finally sought church membership.
On the Pilgrims Trail.
On Thursday September >, il is pro-
posed that American members of the
from Leyden to Delfshaven--or ut
least part of that way-along the
exact route traverSed on July 81, 1920,
by the earliest group of Pilgrims that
sought Il home in New England. on
arriving at Rotterdam (of which Delfs-
haven is now an integral parD the
visitors will be taken by some large
and commodous vessel around the
harbors. luncheon will be served on
board and afterward dinner. During
the interval service will be con-
Quoted i'm the venerable Dutch church
Of Delfshaven, and popular concert
Of American and Dutch sacred music
will be given in the cathedral of St
Lawrence. This edifice, recently re-
stored, is one Of the most stately and
impressive in the Netherlands. II is
replete with historic mementoes, and
as it seats some ave thousand hearers
one may Ddge what impression this
function may make both on American
and Dutch delegates. 1t will be the
browning event in this series. On the
preceding Sundays devotional services
have been arranged to be addressed
by eminent American pastors in the
ancient Scots church of Rotterdam
the church Of the exiled Covenanters
banished by Charles Hand in the
still more venerable English reformed
church in the Bagynhof, Amsterdam.
The latter is associated not only with
Pilgrim history but with the curious
and heroic stories Of the Reformed
Sf nd of n1
Church i'm the United States. 1t Is ex-
pected that one of the events of the
Amsterdam visit will be the unveil-
ing of memorial windows.
No doubt also the plan to have
fitting memorial erected In memory of
the Pilgrims at Delfshaven will be car
ried out. We can scarcely exaggerate
what America, and indeed the world.
owes TO Holland. And that debt Is
| due to Holland not merely through the
! Pilgrims but through the Dutch influ-
ence in New York and through the
Influence Of the Reformed Church In
the United States still further south.
But the main subject of this sympa-
| thetic Dutch celebration will be the
! Pilgrims heritage-and that Is mar
velous one. The Pilgrims loved liberty
before they sought refuge In Holland |;
but In Holland they had their love OF
liberty UNNECESSARILY deepened and in
tensifed. They learned tolerance Gas
the most tolerant nation then existing
understood it); they learned repre-
sentative government. freedom of
press, personal care and concern for
the poor, and such practical concerns
as the keeping of archives. the docu-
melting Of titles and deeds. And II
must not be, forgotten that TIE twelve
years that thenPIlgrims. spent In the
Federation OF States" now called HoI.
land taught them to analyze and mini.
out the problems of states rights md
federal government. Truly Holland
was the nursing mother Of athe noble
band that afterward founded New
'tTpgInnd MS she was the direct mother
of so much that Was at first directly
and exclusively Dutch In the great
commonwealth.
i Al Americans Invited.
i All this and many new and fresh ms.
\ poets OF the old questions win he pre-
scented Mt the congress BY the best
l minds Of America- divines and law
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