Putnam patriot., 1926-11-19
ON VISITING PLYMOUTH ROCK

4 B s sO may pick random. There those who AIexanders and Napoeons Or may be of revolutions and the field from Renzi to Trotzy And would shril from the homeland dared-and there those who have daredo say that many pages of American history dull as the pr0verbial dtchwater.
 Yet We maintain. even American history pick and choose England soil hold fast to the fine old tradition of the Mayower Plymouth Rock Cot lon Mather witches The of cline may still Cavaliers of Maryland and the grandioe plan ation Virginia much interesting historically han who landed the bakedpotato pebble at Plymouth A. D. 1920 And there those who having tra xersed plains West the upholstered diseomforts of Pullman have been able reconstruct mentally n historical period national which compares favor ably with M9saiea portions of the Old Testament
 All this as te our mental history. happened before visited Plymouth Rock Previously n fact We had never been much pePoseed bE he story o the Pilgrim Fathers They Their religious zeal had appeared as lying realms of common and certain eass though possibly deplorabe but none human diplomacy. had seemed that all might have hap pened easily and sensbs than it didthat famous railing the early decades of the teenth century.
 And then early anniversaries of middle age, this year of our Lord 92G visited Plymouth
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 the seaside with well streets pleasant hotels
 bor forming are between breakwaers, and host of te like ourselves bent upon seeing the Rock And there mall anpreentious. rather modest boulder resting beia canopy bg the harborside not much of rock sn realty deal of a symbol The modern motor road besd. Above teraced mound mounted many and excellent and convenient hotel T. Inc right impressive the of the May flower An this be heart and the of Plymouth. The rest recollection ot childhood history lessons and the tac he brave band of believers planted their seed in the soil of q nation
 is true Hemans and roekbound coast light of early November Sunday afternoon, pleasant and rather modezed watersde And the gigantic bronze Inc friendly Mssoit loo closely resembles the a ma figures That gaeed the entrance of myriad cigar impressive might have desired All E pal q Of 0 grateful 10 it's forebears.
 But there s in Plymouth sentence which arrested us with letters of fire though they grayen deeply and reveren in Pilgrim Father who versed these words o charge a generation. They from later day. per haps of signing The not on the of the It above the rock nor upon National that hill facing the har looking off that other memorial in DuNbury raised the memory of Miles Standish
 The sentence as a matter fact away around the back the of the Mayhower. And underneath of these faithful Pilgrims of the dis tah side, written quite simply
 THEY BROUGHT UP THEIR FAMILIES I STURDY
 VIRTUE AND LINING FAITH IN GOD WITHOUT
 WHICH NATIONS PERISH"
 II an arestng sentence this naive summary the life those who loyalty though probably not with protest followed their males wilderness doubt and suffering which with modern eyes imagine We and again We il down and sauntered off to the Rock.
 in sturdy virtue and a living faith in God"
 hurled itself to grinding stop beside the Rock.
 Hurry up Bill gotta see the damned rock Get out of young demon with bobbed hair short skirts and cigarette jumped followed by several raucous of her k Well. wothe4 Is that Plymouth Rock My Gawd1 Step ou it. Bllr' And they gone
 And underneath the granite canopy the rather silly little rock lay the sands. II almost seemed to smile perhaps little sadly.
 And the mind of the casual visitor trae too emotional perhaps back those three hundred and odd years pictured that cold December afternoon when the humpy little Mayfower venured into this eurying haven and the her side and utng the the And did not think too much of those Pilgrims enjoying the suferng of their pety One thought the upooed from their homes and their fire sides somewhat bndy into the terrors of the known their families in sturdy virtue and living faith in God"
 What splendid mission theirs mission accomplish through faith