Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-03
MAINE EULOGY
BY AUGUSTAN

Gordon College of Theology. Bos-
| ton, Mass. Especial. 1.-The Maine
| students in Gordon College OF Theo-
| lcgy celebrated Maine Week the past
week with songs. cheers and yells.
The. festivities began on Monday,
| April "a, when the Maine students
marched to the dining room at the
supper hour with a song on their
lips in praise OF their loved Pine
Tree State. Each was dressed to
represent some place Of Maine life,
including lumberman, Indian,
quaryman. sporting girl. teacher,
school girl, etc. During the supper
hour they gave many songs. cheers
and yells, all intended to boost and
boom Maine, especially as a vacation
State.
These have been continued
through the week. On Thursday
night Miss Phronie S. Knowles gave
the following five minute speech on
the people Of Maine:
Maine. Dirigo State. true to her
motto, II Lead" Maine the sunrise
State, first to greet the sun and be
bathed in its glory. Maine the great
missionary State. who has sent her
sons and daughters into every state
in the Union. where they occupy the
highest positions Of trust in every
field of endeavors.
This has been a great grief to
many and it is often said, 1--WE must
devise some means whereby we may
keep our best blood at home" Nay.
verify, we might as well try to stop
the current Of the Gulf Stream.
More than 20 years ago. through
| the influence of that saint Of God,
Neal Dow, Maine enacted the first
prohibitory liquor law on the face of
the earth.
We would not forget our own Mrs.
IL. NJ. n. Stevens, National w. c. T. U.
president.
I heard Ex-Governor Hanly of In
diana say that he had sat In Con-
gress with our six men from Maine
| when they had more influence than
the Is men from two of our largest
states.
Speaker OF the House, man from
| Maine, President Of the Senate, man
from Maine, Chairman of the great
| Ways and Means Committee, man
from Maine, etc.
Time would fail me to speak Of our
great statesmen like Blaine. Ham
| len, the Morrills. Dingley, Hale, Reed,
| Frye and many others.
Our great singers like Annie Louise
| Carey Emma Eames, N0rdica and
York.
Our great divines and writers of
| books like Elijah Kellogg, and Fran
els f. Clark, founder of the Christian
| Endeavors society; our missionaries
like that heroic soul, Cyrus Hamlen.
| founder of Roberts College in Con-
stantinople; our great newspapermen
and writers of books like Frank A.
Munsey; our writer of hymns, Mary
A. Wingate; our other writer's like
Sarah Orne Jewett, Holman Day,
Edna ST. Vincent Milla. Elizabeth
Powers Merrill, Matte Baker Dunn,
Laura E. Richards, Annie Hamilton
Donnell and her daughter and many
others When God wanted a suitable
birthplace for Americas best lived
pOGL lJOlIS lcIIOWt iiC SclcNlSu nat
beautiful town by the sea-" near
behring's woods, Portland.
While Kate Douglas Virgins was
born in Philadelphia, she lives in
and writes of Maine. Harriet Beech
err Stowe wrote Uncle Toms Cabin,
| that marvellous book which shook
this nation as no otner book ever
| has except the Bible. IN Maine She
| was kneeling in the old college
church in Brunswick when she had
her vision of Uncle Tom.
We would not forget our great
explorers like Robert +. Peary.
discoverer Of the North Pole. our
great inventors like Sir Hiram and
Hudson Maxim. our great jurist like
Chief Justice Melville i. Fuller. orr
generals like Joshua T.. Chamber
lain, o. o. Howard and Neal Dow.
No state ever had a truer motto
than Maine, II Lead"