The General society of Mayflower descendants; meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants . HEPILGRIMS REV. JAMES GIBSON JOHNSON, Elder of the Connecticut Society ofMayflower Descendants AT PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTSSeptember i6, 1900 Ibe batb not Dealt so witb ans 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-acter and citizenship. We do our
The General society of Mayflower descendants; meetings, officers and members arranged in state societies, ancestors and their descendants . HEPILGRIMS REV. JAMES GIBSON JOHNSON, Elder of the Connecticut Society ofMayflower Descendants AT PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTSSeptember i6, 1900 Ibe batb not Dealt so witb ans 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-acter and citizenship. We do our mostand best for our fellow-citizens and forour 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 23. 34 SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS it, while the Pilgrims, when they did or said anythingHkely to be of interest to their descendants, went homeand wrote it in their journals. But a difference whichescapes one who makes that statement is that the Dutchwere without the consciousness, which so fully possessedthe Pilgrims, that they were chosen instruments for theaccomplishment of a divine purpose. New York was settled purely for commercial pur-poses, and though justice may hardly have been done tothe many admirable qualities of those honest Dutchmen,no one has ever thought of assigning to them any othermotive for coming to this continent than to improvetheir fortunes. This motive no one assigns to the found-ers at Plymouth and Boston. They were singularly in-different to personal interest. That the Pilgrims acceptedthe aid of a commercial company,
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