The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1921-08-05

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scious purposes Of achieving a great
human end. Out OF their voluminous
letters, memoirs, public records and
historical writings, we constantly get
the impression of their deep convic.
ton that they had been called as di-
vine instruments to accomplish a
work of supermost significance.
"Hand of men alone did not build
what was founded here; it was but
the visible sign, the human symbol, of
a purpose, which we may not under
stand, but for whose beneficence all
men must give tribute of praise and
voice undying gratitude. We may
speculate and conjecture. We may
seek to frame laws of human rela-
tiOnship, by which to account for such
results as here have been wrought !;
but at last we will have TO recognize
that they are not for us to explain.
THE English speaking race had
hardly established itself in true char
acter as the foremost exponent of
| liberal institutions when it began to
distribute itself among the wilder
ness of the earth. Even before liber-
| ty had been secured for the mother
| country, its soldiers were adventur-
ing into distant parts carrying their
ambitions with them.
"The community of free people of
our race, whether in Europe or Am
erica, in Africa or Australia, under
the Northern or the Southern skies,
was begun when jamestown and Ply
mouth we're founded. 1t has carried
its ideals wherever it has set its
standard. 1t has won recognition of
those ideals as the basis of social con-
duct, of community relations, thru
out the world. Its work is not fin
ished, but, pray God, it has come
triumphantly thru its determining or
deal. 1t comes forth from that test.
nerved and heartened for further
tasks; confident. assured. reliant.
None questions either its place or
its right of leadership; few doubt its
destiny to establish, under that divine
guidance which il has ever recogniz-
ed, the splendid structure of human
brotherhood in peace and understand
ing.
THE perspectives of history are
not safely to be judged save from the |
Hottest peaks of human experience. !
1t is the dearly bought privilege of
our generation to stand on one Of !
those heights of the long ages. to look |
back over the pathways by which we
have come thus far, to see what !
have been the main travelled roads |
and what the by-paths. If we will |
but let our minds record that which |
our eyes tell us we will note that the !
landscape behind us is |
vastly changed. 1t is not what it |
seemed when we were passing thru |
it We sce that some of the routes
which we supposed were the high |
roads of progress were the futile |
ways of wasted efforts. Others, which
in the journeys heat and toll we
counted only as its marches of an
guish, we recognize as the short cuts
that carried us quickly TO loftier
levels and safer positions.
1--WE stand today before the un-
known, but we look to the future
with confidence mistaken. There is
no retracing; we must forever go on.
We welcome the theories wrought
)ut in new hope, but we cling to the
assurance founded on experience. All
hat is not bad; all that is to be will
not be ideal. We cannot lift the veil
o the future, but we can analyze and
understand what has gone before. 1t
S good to keep our feet firmly on the
'arth, tho we gaze in high hope for
human brotherhood and high attain
nents.
Just as the Pilgrams had a prac-
ical mind for material things amid
Elective pursuit of their higher ideals
o must we with our Inheritance.
Guard Against World Superstate.
Just as these fathers drew to-
either toward ample authority to
make the nation and still preserve
he freedom of these who compose e,
o must we guard against the su
rene Capitalization of power at
IOme, and the superstate for the
'orld. More, we must combat the
lenace in the growing assumption
hat the State must support the peo-
lie, for just Government is merely
he guaranty to the people of the
light and opportunity of that people
D support themselves, The one
danger of today is the
endC1cy to turn to Washington for
he things which are the tasks or the
utios of the forty-eight Common