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Show Williarn A. Phillips. ,. ~fan to misCl'y is born ; - llorn to drudge, to sw"at, to suffer-nom to labor an d to pray· " Pn.o r to t 1F ' 1·.',- rJ Ol.l n ation th ere w re serf.: ' in Eng1and. I know 1· t 1· ~ cu. t om:t 1·y to ch·~1 rrnr c the Hom1~h .c ltur h of tha. t tu. ne WI·( 11 a ll CX.1· ·t'In (To evils. I hav'. 110 d<•su·e to comrn1t wch 1· n ·J U.s t·i ce. I neither wish to mculpa.te o.r exculpa. te til •tn. ·,1'1lC 1:, tc,.,, ' vn..c" ::, the PROTEST beg,a n a. <g amst ROJ111i-ih usu rpatw· n, an<1 r.n·1 hed by hurlinrr it. elf agamst all u ·urpa- Jl • • C: · . • . • . . rr tJ·O n. '1'1 H· was t11e leror ttJmate fruit of n Chu ttamty tJ ub-rrlinrr into Freedom and Light. 0 1t " ·I S f'a . 1li ·O n::\ ble ' I believe ' to speak contemptuously of the c1 arI < . or mH·1 1c1 e norr es · The e dark aror es carried in the, ir· bo~oms t Il C S C<1 S 0 f. "c ::ometl1inrbr better than thcmsel vcs. 1 h<'y gave us t I lC pn·n t1' 11 0rr pres• s·, the mariner's compn. s,• t h' t<·l<·:.;e.o pc, gun pow d •r , the first fruits of chemifltry, expen. rn ntal pllllo .· - op I1 y ; nn<1 .',l len •s nl rnc nror from tlw' m Prot.rstantJ:, 3tn and constJ-tutionnl government:-. The mingled ~nglo-Sax.on r:t<'t.' was the riche t soil into which the Prot •st fell. h npcn •d mto a gr ·at purpo 'e, and in. pi red with it the race ~prang forward to rrrcatne s and power. "' Then came the Puritanic era. It wa. til • highe t type, beeau. e it was religion and progress we<.hlcd toget h r. Oliver C1·omw ll was its first repre cntativc. The ablest ruler England ever hn<l,-he sang psalm~, an<l shot his enemies, -" tru t d in God, and kept his powder dry." ~Vh cn Cromwell died, and Engli!'h Puritanism went under a cloud, many of its lending spirits sought refuge in the new world. You remember how the aneient II •brew wanclcred on to a. grent dc:;tiny, with the ark of the covenant in their midst. Thrs' Puritan· cnmc with tiH• great l'H OT I•:~ T embedded in their bone . 'Vh ,n the PiJcrrims too<l on J>lymouth Hock and lookccl out through the drifting . now to the ~rea.t wiltleme s-now a great empire- they had as dim nn idea of that wildcmc. s as they had of the designs of an over- William A. Phillips. ruling Providr nc' that 1Htd been preparing them as weapon::~ for a great purpose. Then came the Revolution. It wn.s 1. • · 'n 'v·,,,,,. t bl I c. t was pnrt of the Prote:-; t. It was 110 ~Ji~rltt slt' f> for a · . . . n · c young nation, sti.Il m the '~·addl111g-bands of iuf:uwy, to imbocly, and am-pl1fy, and perfect the H ·pub.licanism of' Hampden nnd AJrrcr-non • ydney. It was s till more - it w·'s 1101.1 . 1 • ,l 1 · 0! . ... v nnu 11g lC1·, - 1t showed that the leaven of 1 ibcrty ,v 1 'Jl .7 • • • .J 'WO?'II', W 1J ell 1ts youthful VOICe uttered to the civi lized world, " 'Ve lt ol<.l thc~c truth to b' seH~cvi<lflzlt th·1t Gocl c. ' 1 1l ' ' 1 ale< a m n equal," with th' ' inalienable rio·ht" to "JiC· {'b l 1 1 . . , l, t er !J, nne t 1e pur;:;utt of 1wppme~ . . " It did not m·tt tct· ho,v 111 .... 'II 1 . ' ,, n y ca v 1 t< at the td •a, ~r how i;·w comprehended it. It was not fhtal to the DeclaratiOn that tltu rrovemmellt ftoLJndcc.l ·t 1 11 n on 1 • 10u c not come fully up to its own doctrinr. 'YIIy, it wn an idea that t~tc I~o .. .,t vit~1l~y active and youiiJfulJtation could .~pend ccntn-nc 111 rcaltzzng. There wa · life enourr!J j 11 ·t t 1 . . r. 1 o <cep a natton growmg for· five hundred )' ''lrs '1'11• 1t · ·r tl ·1 ' • ' · t ~, 1 1e JC ca g1·cw, the nation would grow. The indi,·id 11 ni who h·ls n fixed purpo~e will come to nou rrht . ~0 1 · 1 ·t ,v.tl ·t~ 0 " ~~ ' r. ' • · 1 1 nn wns. or down ? choo c ye," snys fat ' "out kf'rp moving." lhc future of the young Republic began to w ar it grancl a~pcct. All the earnest prorrrcssiv I>1·otc t'"' t tl · k ' b · , ~ "n H n · ers tnrncd to it in admiration. The prayers of tho~c who had n better hope for humanity went up for its fi· rdom of opinion and purpo~e revealed in the pro:prct. E vcr~ ~pccics of religion and incligion b<•gnn to flourish. ~he rel1~Iou. protc~t <licl not confinr itsl•lf to CntJJolicism. ~ re bytcrtamsm prot ted ngainst Epis<·opa<'y. Anninia.nJsm protestcc.l again t Calvinism. SoC'ietie ..; prot • ted against .~h~rch ,Judicatorie ' and Synoc.l~- ConYention~ again:t SoCJ~ ties. Ic.lea.li ·t scoffed at Formnli~ts, and the indivic.lual tlu~I:er protc~ ted against them all. Tho doctrine was, that reiJo·Jons c t • 1 lc.l ,., n 11nrnt s 10u be perfectly free. Yet, for all thnt the America of p . . 1 · . ' tog1ess wa an< 1s csscntwlly a Christian |
