Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-12-31
Precautionary Of Their Sailing
From That Country to Be
Observed.
AMERICAN CITIZENS Invited
Distinguished Committee Is makieo
Preparations for Exercises in Sep
TEMPER English Celebration
VIII Follow That of
Holland.

| erlaIIdS for the observance of the ter
centenary of the sailing of The Pilgrim
Fathers. 1t includes several ministers
OF state. an eX-prenlier the chief Bur
goniasters and the leading governors
of provinces, writes Rev. j. Irwin
Brown in the New York World. The
universities are well represented on
it-eSpecially that of Leyden, as is
fitting-and the historians are well 60
the fore. DR.. Henry Van Dyke OF
Princeton and DIR. ]. Rendel Harris OF
Manchester are members from Amer
icl and England respectively, as are
Viscount Bryce, the great exponent of
American institutions. in Europe, and
Lord Reay, the Dutch statesman, who
years ago was summoned to become
heir to the MacKay estates in Great
Britain.
Plan Is Outlined.
The representative committee Cf
management has already done much.
having outlined the plan of their meet
ings for the celebrations and congress.
The Congress is the learned part
of the festival, and Will be held chiefly
in the Leyden university, where the
scholarly side of Pilgrim history will
be considered. This will be of much
greater popular interest than such
scholastic gatherings usually are, see.
ing that many striking facts in con.
nection with Pilgrim history have re-
Gently been unearthed from the Ley
den archives. Some of these ale OF
chivalrOus and heroic character: 9th
erS have their amusing side. The
larger meetings of the congress viii
ne either i'll the cathedral (the Peters
llerk or St Peters churclD or III the
great auditorium of the university.
There some of the foremost Orators Of
America and OF Holland are expected
to speak. Proceedings viii be partly
In English (Which all educated HoI-
ianders understandD and partly in
Dutch.
After two days in Leyden the con-
gresS will move to Amsterdam. where
a truly regal reception awaits Chem.
They Will visit the state picture gal
iery under distinguished guidance and
take part in religious services IL the
ancient Bagynekerl (the English Re
termed clrurch). where the relGnant
of the Pilgrim community Chose chat
remained on in Amsterdam liz iG20>
finally sought church membership.
On the Pilgrims Trail.
On Thursday, September ., if is pro.
posed that American members of the
congress be carried by canal boats
| from Leyden to Delfshaven-o at
least part of that way-aiong the
exact route trayersed on July 81. 1920,
by the earliest group OF Pilgrims that
sought a home in New England. On
arriving at Rotterdam (of which Deifs-
haven is now an integral parO the
visitors will he taken by some large
and commodioilS vessel around the
harborS. luncheon viii be served on
board and afterward dinner. During
the interval a service will be con-
Quoted in the venerable Dutch church
Of DeifShaven, and popular concert
OF American and Dutch sacred music
will be given in the cathedral OF st.
Lawrence. This ediflce, recently re-
stored is one of the most stately md
impressive in the Netherlands. 1t is
replete with historic mementoeS, and
as it seats some five thousand hearers
| one may judge 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
IT ~ I1o
still more venerable English reformed
church in the Bagynhof. Amsterdam
Tile latter is associated not only witt,
Pilgrim history but with the curious
and heroic stories of the Reformed
Church of America and the Reformed
| Church in the United States. 1t is ex.
pected that one of the events of the
Amsterdam visit will be the unveil-
ting of memorial windows.
No doubt also the plan to have Il
! fitting memorial erected in memory OF
the Pilgrims ut Delfshaven will be car
rfed out. We can scarcely exagger;ltp
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 infiu.
| ence in New York and through the
Influence of the Reformed Church in
the United States still further south
1 Rut the main subject of this syuipa
/ flletfc Dutch celebration will be the
| Pilgrims heritage and that is a mar,
yelous one. The Pilgrims loved liberty
Fbefore they sought refuge in Holland ;
! but in Holland they had their love of
4 liberty UNNECESSARILY deepened and in.
] tcnsified. They learned tolerance Gas
the most tolerant nation then. existing
/ understood III; they learned repre-
i tentative government, freedom OF
4 sfress, rersni,at care and cohcefn for
Tie poox. and such practical concerns
Miss Sophia Mum is seriously IL
Of the home of her daughter, Mrs
/ Gordon. on Race efroat = Z. -. q