The General society of Mayflower descendants; meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants . THE NATIONS DEBT TO THEPILGRIMS lEin Hb^ress BY REV. JAMES GIBSON JOHNSON, Elder of the Connecticut Society ofMayflower Descendants AT PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTSSeptember i6, 1900. Ibc batb not Dealt so witb ang nation. 147TH Psalm. E are met here, my friends, not so muchto honor the Pilgrims as to honor our-selves by renewed recognition of the factthat we are their descendants. To re-peat their virtues and to emulate theirexample is our high standard of
The General society of Mayflower descendants; meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants . THE NATIONS DEBT TO THEPILGRIMS lEin Hb^ress BY REV. JAMES GIBSON JOHNSON, Elder of the Connecticut Society ofMayflower Descendants AT PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTSSeptember i6, 1900. Ibc batb not Dealt so witb ang nation. 147TH Psalm. E are met here, my friends, not so muchto honor the Pilgrims as to honor our-selves by renewed recognition of the factthat we are their descendants. To re-peat their virtues and to emulate theirexample is our high standard of char--^-w -y^r\(m acter and citizenship. We do our most^ ^v^ and best for our fellow-citizens and for our religious and national life by keeping fresh in thememory of us all the men and women who landed hereon that bleak winters day—what they were, and whatthey did. The Pilgrims have been fortunate in their content with making history, they also wrote it. Ithas been said that the reason why the Dutch who set-tled New York are not as well known as the English whosettled New England is that the Dutch were silent men,who were content to do their work and say nothing about3 33 34 SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS it, while the Pilgrims, when they did or said anythinglikely to be of interest to their
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