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yers-and by the best thinkers o.
Holland the trained sons of her an
cient schools Of learning.
The English celebrations begin a
the conclusion of the Dutch congress
and last week. They will be hel(
in part at Southampton and Plymouth
and in part at Scrooby, the cradle Of
the Pilgrim community, Thus the two
series of meetings are closely co-ordi
mated.
No event In the memory Of the pres
ent generation, it is thought, will sc
move Holland as this historic festi
val. While II Is in the main and pri
marily, religious. 1t appeals to the
Imagination of all readers of history
and all who know what the Pilgrims
stood for. All American citizens who
are in sympathy with these principles
are cordially invited to be present
The speakers and the delegates will
be the special guests of the Leyden
commission at the houses of private
citizens, and they will be received
with enthusiasm and their visit held
in high honor 1t might be well for
intending visitors to the congress to
write at once TO the office Of the
"Holland Commission on Pilgrim
Fathers" Heerenstraat, As. Leyden,
Holland.
Amsterdam was the great mission.
airy centre for the world from the
year 1850 for century onward. It
planted and kept vigorously alive the
Dutch Church of America, and It
subsequently fostered the Reformed
Church in the United States by sup
plying the ordinances of religion, train
Ing her ministers. supporting her by
handsome gifts. All this will be, and
ought to be, borne in mind when
Amsterdam asks memorial windows
to be placed In the Bagynhof church
in memory of the Pilgrims and as a
token Of appreciation from those Re-
formed churches of America that are
indebted for their very existence TO
the munificence and sympathy of
ancient Amsterdam.
Rotterdam's Special Claim.
But It is Rotterdam that needs the
more distinctive memorial of the
present hour. For Delfshaven. the
classic spot from which the Speed
well started, is now the most -four
fishing part Of the Rotterdam port;
and in Rotterdam within the next few
years there viii be an enormously in
creased percentage of American YES
sells. The present trying condition of
affairs has only TO right itself to
small degree and that Dutch port will
be filled with American shipping. For
years America must feed Europe, and
the vast commercial relations which
this will bring about viii remain for
generations and grow, long after the
initial necessities of the situation
have passed away. For the American
sailor in Rotterdam there must he a
Sailors Rest, with modern equip.
ment. 1t is proposed TO call it the
Pilgrims Rest. "Speedwell."
This will be the most worthy me-
mortal that America can raise. 1t viii
keep alive the story of the Pilgrims
show how the great republic appre
ciates all that Holland has done; and
II viii provide for the social and spir-
Itual well-heing of Americas young
sailors, giving them home and safe
guarding them amid the allurements
and perils CT a foreign port. If the
Pilgrims could come back TO Delfshav-
en- and look around them, IL they could
be Intercepted this tercentenary year
On what they might consider their
most fitting memorial. II Is safe to con-
lecture that they would say. Build q
house Of rest and Of prayer for our
1wn children. the seafarers from the
West. who throng the streets of this
Dutch city without knowing the way
" Its people, without speaking IL
ongue." II is not certain they woult
'ay, "BuIld the tombs OF the prophet,
( yol win but remember the needs o.
he living too. This ought We to hav,
lone. and not leave the other undo7e.'
rhe erection of a Pilgrims Rest al
Oelfshaven win be a work Of p.ety |
and gratitude