Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-04
PILGRIM TERCENTENARY
CLIMAX TOMORROW
To be Reached in a Fitting Cam
tata to be Sung at Westmin-
ster Church..

The chmat Of the Pilgrim tercentenary
celebration will be reached at he services
AT Westminster Church tomorrow At
the afternoon service, at 4 o'clock. DR..
Candee will deliver the last of his address
es on the Puritans and Pilgrims. This will
be entitled, ''The Conscience of 1920
and the Conscience Of 1920" At this
service tho double quartet choir will
sing, assisted by the Glee Club. This
will be the second time the Glee Club
has assisted at the afternoon service.
This time IL will sing r. s. Hosners beau
tiful cantata, The Pilgrims of 1910.
The cantata is n new one, written specially
for the celebration, and scored for mixed
voices. Frederick w. Wyatt, baritone,
will be the soloist Mr.. Wyatt is one OF
Wilmingtons foremost musicians and
conducts the Glee Club with the greatest
success The other soloists will he Mrs,
Martin Lewis, Miss Jean McCaughn
w. T. Butler and Alvin keene. In the
evening, the Glee Club will repeat the
cantats at a community meeting at hen-
nett Square. The community at kennett
has heard of the club and has invited IT
to be their guests at that time.
In the cantata THE Pilgrims OF lb2O,
the authors have sought TO enter INTO the
spirit of these early settlers OF our ooun-
try, and TO present version oil tne
VOYAGE of the Mayfiower, true not only
10 facts, but 10 these facts in their re-
lation to the centuries since 1920. At this
special time, when 800 years have borne
witness 10 the enduring character of the
work wrought by the Pilgrims, IT is fitting
to voice the nations sense of gratitude,
for in the words OF Theodore Roosevelt,
~ the laying of the cornerstone of the
Memorial Monument at Provincetown,
In 1907, The coming hither of the pill
grims three centuries shaped the
destinies of this continent, and therefore
profoundly affected the destiny of the
world" Through their trials in the home
land; through the stormy voyage across
the sea 10 those days when they sought
shelter in the harbor Of Provincetown,
and so those last days when the dream
was realized, when they landed on Plym-
outh Rock that WAS ito their feet as
doorstep into world unknown-the
cornerstone of nation, the words
have followed the Pilgrims They have
rejoiced in their joys, carried their crosses
with them, and shared their longing for
civic freedom that reached its climax IN
the signing Of the compact in the lowly
cabin of the Mayt!0wer, in Provincetown
harbor This was the birth of America S
democracy and though the famous docu-
ment has been absorbed by the later
Constitution, il is, nevertheless. vital
part Of the nations foundation.
The writer of the mu 10, f. 5. Ho mer,
has used in various parts of the cantata
themes from the old tune, 'E ork. This
was out of the few tlt1es known 10 the
Pilgrims. and It's words, taken from Psalm
CNXI, are well adapted TO express the
emotion of the exiles in the sight OF land
The text and music of the oantata
call 20 mind the wonderful courage of the
Pilgrims, rs we'll as the abiding faith that
led them, when they knew they we're
pilgrims" to the final happiness of light
ing the hearth-hame in New England.
IL indeed true that "the light here kindled
hath vet shone TO many, and the authors
deem it a privilege to salute tenderly
and reverentlv the Pilgrims OF the May
flower, and felicitate them on the Won
derful issues in human Joy. strength and
freedom of their faith endurance, and
dauntless resolution"