The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-04-30
Holland Will
Honor Pilgrims

he either in 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
t" speak. Proceedings will be partly
! in English (Which all educated Hol-
ian,lers untlerstantl) and partly in
Dutch.
After two days in Leydcn the con-
gre>S will move to Amsterdam. where
truly regal reception awaits them.
They will visit the state picture gal
lrry under distinguished guidance and
take part in religious services in the
ancient Ragynekerk (the English Re-
formed church). where the remnant
Of the Pilgrim community Chose that
remained on in Amsterdam in l6oO)
| finally sought church membership.
On the Pilgrims Trail.
On Thursday September =. it is pro-
posed that American members Of the
congress he carried by canal boats
from l.ey,lrn tn Dclf>havcn--or ut
least Il part of that W;ly-alon~ the
exact route traversed on July 81. lG.'
Ivy he earliest group of Pilgrims that
Sc1,-ht Il home in New England. On
arriving At Rotterdam ("f which Delf>-
i haven is now an integral parD the
visitors will he taken 10y some large
! and comlnotlou> vessel around the
] hnrhurS. luncheon will be served on
/ beard and aflerwarl dinner. During
! the interval Il service will he con-
Quoted in The venerable Dutch ,'hurch
Of bcliShaven. and popular concert
of American and Dutch sacred music
/ VIII he given in the cathedral If st.
Lawrence. This edifice. recently re-
stored. is one Of the most stately and
/ impressive in the Netherlands. 1t is
renle," 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 he the
browning event in this series. On the
preceding Sundays devotional services
have been arranged to he addressed
hy eminent American pastors in the
ancient scots church Of Rotterdam
the church Of the exi!ed tovenantcr>
hani>hrd 10y Charles Hand in the
still More venerable English reformed
church in the Hayynlnf. Amsterdam.
The latter Is associated nor only with
Pilgrim history but with the curious
and hrro,, stories of the Reformed
Church III America and the Reformed
I,n SthtA to
pected thai one of the events Of the
Amsterdam visit will he the unveil-
ing of memorial windows.
No doubt also the plan to have II
fitting memorial erected in memory 0f
he Pilgrims 1T DelfShaven will he car
ri"d ont 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 hut through the Dutch influ-
ence in New York and through the
4 influence If the Reformed Church in
the United States still further south.
Flu, the main subject Of this sympa.
tletic Dutch celebration will he the
Pilgrims heritage--and that is n mar
vel",,s one The Pilgrims loved liberty
before they sought refuge in Holland !:
hut in Holland they had their love of
liberty mmeasurably tieepcned and in
tenSif:ed. They learned tolerance (as
the most tolerant nation then existing
understood iD: they learned repre-
sentative government. freedom Of
press. personal care AMI concern for
the poor. and such practical concerns
as the keeping Of archives. the dOcu.
menting of titles and deeds. And 1t
must not he forgotten that the twelve
years that the Pilgrims spent in the
''Fe,lerati"n Of States" now called Ii0l-
hand laugh: them to- analyZe and think
out the prn,lems Of states rights and
federal government. Truly Holland
was the nursing mother of the noble
band that afterward founded New
England. as she was the direct mother
Of so much that was ut first directly
and exclusively Dutch in the great
commonwealth.
Al! Americans Invited.
All this and many new and fresh as
poets Of the old questions will be pre-
sentesl at the congress by the best
minds of America-tlivines and law