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 Dedication 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Cole s Hill Memorial 
 
 Thursday, September 8, 1921 
 
 AT THE 
 
 FIRST CHURCH 
 
 PLYMOUTH, MASS. 
 
 Report oi tke 
 
 Committee on tke Tercentenanj Celebration 
 
 and Permanent Memorial 
 
1620—1920 
 
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 DEDICATION 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CoLE's Hill Memorial 
 
 THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 8, 1921 
 
 AT THE 
 
 FIRST CHURCH 
 
 PLYMOUTH, MASS. 
 
 PRESIDING : 
 
 Former Governor General HOWLAND DAVIS, Ckairman of tke 
 Committee on tke Terceutenanj Celebration 
 and Permanent Memorial 
 

 
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^^INSCRIPTIONS ON MONUMENT 
 
 THIS MONUMENT MARKS THE FIRST BURYING GROUND 
 IN PLYMOUTH OF THE PASSENGERS OF THE MAYFLOWER 
 
 HERE, UNDER COVER OF DARKNESS, THE FAST DWINDLING COMPANY 
 LAID THEIR DEAD, LEVELING THE EARTH ABOVE THEM LEST THE 
 INDIANS SHOULD LEARN HOW MANY WERE THE GRAVES. 
 READER! HISTORY RECORDS NO NOBLER VENTURE FOR FAITH 
 AND FREEDOM THAN THAT OF THIS PILGRIM BAND. IN WEARINESS 
 AND PAINFULNESS, IN WATCHINGS OFTEN, IN HUNGER AND COLD 
 THEY LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF A STATE WHEREIN EVERY MAN, 
 THROUGH COUNTLESS AGES, SHOULD HAVE LIBERTY TO WORSHIP 
 GOD IN HIS OWN WAY. MAY THEIR EXAMPLE INSPIRE THEE TO DO 
 THY PART IN PERPETUATING AND SPREADING THE LOFTY IDEALS 
 OF OUR REPUBLIC THROUGHOUT THE WORLD! 
 
 OF THE ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR PASSENGERS 
 THESE DIED IN PLYMOUTH DURING THE FIRST YEAR 
 
 John Allerton 
 Mary, First Wife of 
 
 Isaac Allerton 
 Richard Britteridge 
 Robert Carter 
 John Carver and 
 Katharine His Wife 
 James Chilton'sWife 
 Richard Clarke 
 John Crakston Sr. 
 Sarah, First Wife of 
 
 Francis Eaton 
 
 Thomas English Ellen More and 
 Moses Fletcher a Brother (children) 
 Edward Fuller and William Mullins 
 
 His Wife 
 John Goodman 
 William Holbeck 
 John Hooke 
 John Langmore 
 
 Alice His Wife and 
 Joseph Their Son 
 Solomon Prower 
 John Rigdale and 
 Alice His Wife 
 
 Edmund Margeson Thomas Rogers 
 Christopher Martin Rose, First Wife of 
 and His Wife Myles Standish 
 
 Degory Priest Elias Story 
 
 Thomas Williams 
 
 Edward Tilley and 
 Ann His Wife 
 John Tilley and 
 His Wife 
 Thomas Tinker 
 His Wife and Son 
 John Turner 
 and Two Sons 
 William White 
 Roger Wilder 
 Elizabeth, First Wife of 
 Edward Winslow 
 
 *By Professor Wilfred H. Munro, of the Rhode Island Society 
 
*INSCRIPTIONS ON MONUMENT 
 
 THE BONES OF THE PILGRIMS 
 FOUND AT VARIOUS TIMES IN 
 AND NEAR THIS INCLOSURE 
 AND PRESERVED FOR MANY 
 YEARS IN THE CANOPY OVER 
 THE ROCK WERE RETURNED AT 
 THE TIME OF THE TERCENTENARY 
 CELEBRATION AND ARE DEPOSITED 
 WITHIN THIS MONUMENT. 
 
 ERECTED BY THE GENERAL SOCIETY 
 
 OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS 
 
 A. D. 1920 
 
 "ABOUTE A HUNDRED SOWLS 
 CAME OVER IN THIS FIRST 
 SHIP AND BEGAN THIS WORK 
 WHICH GOD OF HIS GOODNESS 
 HATH HITHERTOO BLESED: LET 
 HIS HOLY NAME HAVE YE PRAISE" 
 
 BRADFORD 1650 
 
 *By Professor Wilfred H. Munro, of the Rhode Island Society 
 
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 Organ Selection — Fantasy in G minor . . . Bach 
 Mr. Albert W. Snow 
 
 Prayer by Elder General 
 
 Rev. John Coleman Adams, D. D. 
 
 God of our fathers, whose arm failed them not, 
 neither has failed their children, we gather here with 
 grateful hearts that Thou hast been a sun and a shield 
 to them and to us, through all the years that are past. 
 We come in reverence and loyalty to this shrine of the 
 spirit to reconsecrate ourselves to the things here begun 
 and the ideals here set up. We thank Thee for our 
 lineage and for our inheritance. We thank Thee for 
 the names we bear, which our fathers established in 
 honor for all time; for the laws and covenants and 
 constitutions which they handed down to us; for as 
 much of their spirit as still survives in us and in the 
 land they helped to found; for their imperishable vir- 
 tues, their indomitable faith, their unfailing courage, 
 their patience, fortitude, and loyalty to conscience. We 
 thank Thee for the witness they bore to the truth of 
 God and to the duty of man. We thank Thee for their 
 brave persistence, through frost and famine, through 
 peril and pestilence, through loneliness and bereave- 
 ment, in treading the way of the Fore-runner and 
 making straight a highway for Thee in the wilderness 
 of a new land. Help us, God, renew their work in 
 a day of trial and distress. 
 
 Help us to trust in Thy guidance and care; to give 
 ourselves to Thy service, to the upbuilding of Thy 
 Kingdom, to obedience to Thy law, to prayerful lives, 
 to unselfish sacrifice, to fervent and sincere worship. 
 
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 Save our land and all lands from the horror and the 
 sacrilege of war. Promote the fellowship of the nations 
 and the maintenance of universal peace. Make our 
 land a leader in brotherhood and goodwill. And help 
 us, who come here to consecrate a memorial to our 
 fathers, to fashion one more enduring and worthy than 
 this emblem of our reverence out of loyal, devout, self- 
 sacrificing lives, entering into their rewards by sharing 
 in their work. 
 
 So make us to be fellow-citizens with the saints 
 and fellow workmen with Thee, in the spirit of the 
 Master Soul, Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 
 
 Former Governor General Davis. 
 
 Three years ago in this church the Eighth General 
 Congress of the Society took the first step to formulate 
 a plan for the preservation and marking of the Pilgrim 
 Burying Ground on Cole's Hill. This work was even- 
 tually undertaken as the most appropriate permanent 
 contribution by it to the Tercentenary Celebration of 
 the Landing of the Pilgrims. It was unquestionably 
 the one which would appeal most keenly to the senti- 
 ment and to the interest of all the descendants of the 
 Pilgrims, one that is clear and definite in its purpose, 
 and would stand apart by itself as a memorial by the 
 Society of Mayflower Descendants. 
 
 The meeting here to-day is held to mark the suc- 
 cessful completion of this work so undertaken, and in 
 reverent memory of those of the passengers of the 
 Mayflower who died during the fatal first winter, and 
 whose names are now inscribed on the monument which 
 stands on the spot where they were buried. 
 
 The exercises will now continue, and I shall call 
 upon Deputy Governor General Asa P. French to make 
 the first address. He needs no introduction to this 
 audience I am very sure. 
 
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 Address by Deputy Governor General 
 
 Hon. Asa P. French. 
 
 Mr. Chairman, Descendants of the Pilgrims, Ladies 
 and Gentlemen: It is uppermost in my thoughts that 
 I must not encroach upon the time, nor invade the 
 province, of the principal speaker of the day, my very 
 dear friend and classmate, the Bishop of Maine. 
 
 The task which I have undertaken is merely to say 
 a few words in behalf of the General Society of May- 
 flower Descendants which, owing to the regrettable and 
 unavoidable absence of General Wood whose term of 
 office as its Governor-General ended yesterday, I have 
 the honor to represent. 
 
 These exercises, as you have been told, are held 
 under the auspices of that Society for the purpose of 
 dedicating the monument erected by its members on 
 Cole's Hill as their contribution to the permanent 
 memorials which have marked the advent of the three 
 hundredth anniversary of the landing of their first 
 ancestors in America. 
 
 Plymouth soil is dear, and will ever remain dear, 
 to all true Americans; but to us, through the accident 
 of birth, it is fertile with peculiarly tender associa- 
 tions. Here, men and women from whom we are sprung 
 have lived, toiled, suffered and died, and many have 
 been laild to rest within its borders or in its neighbor- 
 ing towns. To repeat what I said, a day or two 
 ago, upon another occasion, we are attached to it by 
 all that has gone before us and by all that shall come 
 after us; by those who gave us life and those to whom 
 we have transmitted it; by the past and by the future; 
 by the immovability of graves and by the rocking of 
 cradles. 
 
 And so, upon the approach of this anniversary, 
 when the State and the Nation have vied with one 
 another in honoring the Pilgrims; when countless multi- 
 tudes have paid pious visit to the spots rendered sa- 
 
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 cred by their lives and deeds, eager to testify their 
 respect and gratitude, our anxious thought and desire 
 has been to commemorate the event in a manner 
 which, though in slight and inadequate measure, would 
 serve as a token of our filial reverence and love. 
 
 It will be remembered that of the one hundred and 
 three passengers of the Mayflower who saw Cape Cod, 
 two, Oceanus Hopkins and Peregrine White were in- 
 fants in arms. Four, including James Chilton, one of 
 the signers of the Compact, and Dorothy, wife of 
 Governor Bradford, died before the arrival at Plymouth. 
 An inscrutable Providence ordained that this little 
 band should be divided into two groups equal in num- 
 ber but unequal in fate; one destined to survive and 
 prosper, and to see, in the alliance with the Massachu- 
 setts Colony, the dawn of a great Commonwealth 
 founded by them, — how great, their wildest prophecies 
 could have but feebly portrayed; the other, over- 
 whelmed and debilitated by the privations and hard- 
 ships of a two months' voyage in a crowded ship upon 
 a tempestuous sea and beneath inclement skies, doomed 
 barely to prolong their existence until they reached 
 their journey's end, and to give up their lives upon 
 the threshold of their supreme undertaking. Insuf- 
 ficiently supplied with remedies, and without effective 
 medical care, there was little to combat the dread 
 disease contracted on shipboard and aggravated by 
 exposure to the rigors of an unaccustomed winter. 
 
 What must have been their doubts and fears, as 
 they felt the shadows of death closing about them, 
 for the fate of their surviving companions and the 
 success of the enterprise for which they had sacrificed 
 their lives! 
 
 How they were buried on Cole's Hill yonder in 
 leveled and unmarked graves the location of which 
 was revealed to posterity, more than a century later, 
 only by the accident of a freshet which displaced 
 parts of the hill and brought some of the bones to the 
 
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 surface; how a highway was constructed through and 
 over the hallowed spot, subsequently marked by a 
 simple and inconspicuous tablet at the roadside, — are 
 all matters within the knowledge of every student of 
 Pilgrim history and need not be recited here in detail. 
 
 At one of the recent Congresses of this Society, 
 the attention of the delegates having been called to 
 this deplorable situation, unanimous action and prompt 
 measures were taken to remedy it. A committee was 
 appointed and a plan was outlined and ultimately 
 carried into effect, to reclaim the spot from the high- 
 way and to place there a monument which should be 
 in some degree appropiate to commemorate the ap- 
 palling tragedy of that first winter and spring, and to 
 record for posterity the names, so far as known, of 
 these martyrs in the cause of liberty and humanity. 
 Truly, the ashes of those who have died for the world's 
 advancement are precious seeds! 
 
 It is that monument which, reared in loving grati- 
 tude, we dedicate today. 
 
 History records that no one was more active in 
 ministering to the sick than Brewster, their ruling 
 elder, and that it was he who conducted the simple 
 and frequent services for the dead. 
 
 Mr. Choate in an oration delivered before the New 
 England Society of New York in 1843, with that 
 wealth of imagery and beauty of diction of which he 
 was a consummate master, has drawn a picture of the 
 melancholy scene and of Brewster's part in it which 
 is so vivid and so beautiful that it cannot be surpassed, 
 and should not be forgotten on this day of dedication, 
 for which it seems almost to have been expressly 
 written: 
 
 "In a late undesigned visit to Plymouth," he said, "I sought 
 the spot where their earliest dead were buried. It was a bank, you 
 remember, somewhat elevated, below the town and between it 
 and the water, near and looking forth upon the waves, symbol of 
 what life had been to them; ... On that spot have laid to rest 
 together, the earth carefully smoothed down, that the Indian might 
 not count the number, the true, the pious, the beautiful, and the 
 
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 brave, till the heavens be no more. There, certainly, was buried 
 the first governor, 'with three volleys of shot fired over him;' and 
 there was buried Rose, the wife of Miles Standish. . . . 
 
 I can seem to see, on a day quite towards the close of their 
 first month of March, a diminished procession of the Pilgrims, 
 following another dearly beloved and newly dead to that brink 
 of graves; and pausing sadly there before they shall turn away to 
 see that face no more. In full view from that spot is the Mayflower, 
 still riding at her anchor, but to sail in a few days more for England, 
 leaving them alone, the living and the dead, to the weal or woe of 
 their new home. I cannot say what was the entire emotion of that 
 moment and that scene, but the tones of the venerated elder's 
 voice, as they gathered round him, were full of cheerful trust; and 
 they went to hearts as noble as his own! 'This spot', he might 
 say, 'this line of shore, yea, this whole land grows dearer, daily, 
 were it only for the precious dust which we have committed to 
 its bosom. I would sleep here, when my own hour comes, rather 
 than elsewhere, with those who have shared with us in our ex- 
 ceeding labors, and whose burdens are now unloosed forever. I 
 would be near them in the last day, and have a part in their resur- 
 rection. And now,' he proceeded, 'let us go from the side of the 
 grave, to work with all our might what we have to do. It is in 
 my mind that our night of sorrow is well-nigh ended, and that 
 the joy of our morning is at hand. The breath of the pleasant 
 south-west is here, and the singing of birds. The sore sickness 
 is stayed, somewhat more than half our number remain, and among 
 them some of our best and wisest, though others have fallen asleep. 
 Matter of joy and thanksgiving to God it is, that among you all, 
 the living and the dead, I know not one, — even when disease had 
 touched him, and sharp grief had made his heart as a little child's 
 — who desired, yea, who could have been entreated to go back to 
 England by yonder ship. Plainly it is his will that we stand or 
 fall here. If he prospers us, we shall found a church, against which 
 the gates of hell shall not prevail; and a colony, — a nation, — by 
 which all the nations shall be healed, and shall be saved. Millions 
 shall spring from our loins, and trace back, with lineal love, their 
 blood to ours. Centuries hereafter, in great cities, the capitals of 
 mighty states, and from the tribes of a common and happy Israel, 
 shall come together, the good, the distinguished, the wise, to re- 
 member our dark day of small things; yea, generations shall call 
 us blessed.' 
 
 Without a sign, calmly, with triumph, they turned away from 
 the grave. They sent the Mayflower away, and went back, those 
 stern, strong men, to their imperial labors." 
 
 Could anything be more fitting than that a lineal 
 descendant of the great elder, himself an eminent New 
 England divine, should have been invited to deliver 
 the principal address in 1921, in consecration of a 
 monument to those who were committed to their 
 graves by his ancestor in 1621, or could anything be 
 more fortunate than that he has undertaken the task 
 with the fullest realization of its significance? 
 
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 And as we consecrate this monument, shall we not 
 cry out, across the infinite gulf to those whose graves 
 it marks: 
 
 little band of brave and steadfast Christians, 
 first of the English race to be committed to New 
 England earth, we, your descendants and successors, 
 the beneficiaries of those blessings which have sprung 
 from your ashes as from precious seeds, stand here 
 to-day, with inexpressible gratitude, reverence, and love 
 for your memories, which we pledge ourselves shall be 
 transmitted from generation to generation, even unto 
 the end of time! [Applause.] 
 
 Organ Selection — Cantabile . . Cesar Franck 
 Mr. Albert W. Snow 
 
 Chairman Davis. — At the time of the celebration 
 on the 21st of December of last year, under the aus- 
 pices of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the 
 Tercentenary Commission, one of the delightful events 
 of that day was an original poem prepared by Dean 
 LeBaron Russell Briggs. Dean Briggs has kindly con- 
 sented to repeat the poem for us today. I know you 
 will be especially grateful to him, as I am for his 
 kindness to us to-day. I have therefore great pleasure 
 in presenting to you Dean Briggs, a descendant of 
 Governor Bradford. 
 
 1620—1920 
 
 A POEM 
 
 By LeBaron Russell Briggs 
 Professor in Harvard University 
 
 Before him rolls the dark, relentless ocean; 
 
 Behind him stretch the cold and barren sands; 
 Wrapt in the mantle of his deep devotion. 
 
 The Pilgrim kneels, and clasps his lifted hands: 
 
 "God of our fathers, who has safely brought us 
 
 Through seas and sorrows, famine, fire, and sword; 
 
 "Who, in Thy mercies manifold hast taught us 
 To trust in Thee, our leader and our Lord; 
 
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 "God, who has sent Thy truth to shine before us, 
 A fiery pillar, beaconing on the sea; 
 
 God, who hast spread Thy wings of mercy o'er us; 
 God, who hast set our children's children free, 
 
 "Freedom Thy new-born nation here shall cherish; 
 
 Grant us Thy covenant, unchanging, sure: 
 Earth shall decay; the firmament shall perish; 
 
 Freedom and Truth, immortal shall endure." 
 
 Face to the Indian arrows. 
 
 Face to the Prussian guns, 
 From then till now the Pilgrim's vow 
 
 Has held the Pilgrim's sons. 
 
 He braved the red man's ambush; 
 
 He loosed the black man's chain; 
 His spirit broke King George's yoke 
 
 And the battleships of Spain. 
 
 He crossed the seething ocean; 
 
 He dared the death-strewn track; 
 He charged in the hell of Saint Mihiel 
 
 And hurled the tyrant back. 
 
 For the voice of the lonely Pilgrim 
 
 Who knelt upon the strand 
 A people hears three hundred years 
 
 In the conscience of the land. 
 
 Daughter of Truth and mother of Courage, 
 
 Conscience, all hail! 
 Heart of New England, strength of the Pilgrim, 
 
 Thou shalt prevail. 
 Look how the empires rise and fall! 
 
 Athens robed in her learning and beauty, 
 Rome in her royal lust of power — 
 Each has flourished her little hour, 
 Risen and fallen and ceased to be. 
 "What of her by the western sea. 
 
 Born and bred as the child of Duty, 
 Sternest of them all? 
 She it is, and she alone 
 Who built on faith as her corner stone; 
 Of all the nations none but she 
 Knew that the truth shall make us free. 
 
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 Daughter of Courage, mother of Heroes, 
 
 Freedom divine, 
 Light of New England, star of the Pilgrim, 
 
 Still shalt thou shine. 
 
 Yet even as we in our pride rejoice, 
 Hark to the prophet's warning voice: 
 "The Pilgrim's thrift is vanished. 
 
 And the Pilgrim's faith is dead. 
 And the Pilgrim's God is banished. 
 
 And Mammon reigns in his stead; 
 And work is damned as an evil. 
 
 And men and women cry, 
 In their restless haste, 'Let us spend and waste, 
 
 And live; for tomorrow we die.' 
 
 "And law is trampled under; 
 
 And the nations stand aghast, 
 As they hear the distant thunder 
 
 Of the storm that marches fast; 
 And we, — whose ocean borders 
 
 Shut off the sound and the sight, — 
 We will wait for marching orders; 
 
 The world has seen us fight; 
 We have earned our days of revel; 
 
 'On with the dance! we cry. 
 *It is pain to think; we will eat and drink, 
 
 And live — for tomorrow we die. 
 
 *' 'We have laughed in the eyes of danger; 
 
 We have given our bravest and best; 
 We have succored the starving stranger; 
 
 Others shall heed the rest.' 
 And the revel never ceases; 
 
 And the nations hold their breath; 
 And our laughter peals, and the mad world reels 
 
 To a carnival of death. 
 
 "Slaves of sloth and the senses, 
 
 Clippers of Freedom's wings. 
 Come back to the Pilgrim's army 
 
 And fight for the King of Kings; 
 Come back to the Pilgrim's conscience; 
 
 Be born in the nation's birth; 
 And strive again as simple men 
 
 For the freedom of the earth. 
 
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 "Freedom a free-born nation still shall cherish; 
 
 Be this our covenant, unchanging, sure: 
 Earth shall decay; the firmament shall perish; 
 
 Freedom and Truth immortal shall endure." 
 
 Land of our fathers, when the tempest rages. 
 
 When the wide earth is racked with war and crime. 
 
 Founded forever on the Rock of Ages, 
 Beaten in vain by surging seas of time, 
 
 Even as the shallop on the breakers riding, 
 Even as the Pilgrim kneeling on the shore. 
 
 Firm in thy faith and fortitude abiding. 
 Hold thou thy children free for ever more. 
 
 And when we sail as Pilgrim's sons and daughers 
 The spirit's Mayflower into seas unknown, 
 
 Driving across the waste of wintry waters 
 The voyage every soul shall make alone. 
 
 The Pilgrim's faith, the Pilgrim's courage grant us; 
 
 Still shines the truth that for the Pilgrim shone. 
 "We are his seed; nor life nor death shall daunt us. 
 
 The port is Freedom! Pilgrim heart, sail on! 
 
 [Applause.] 
 
 Address by 
 
 Rt. Rev. Benjamin Brewster, Bishop of Maine. 
 
 I. The monument we dedicate to-day commemorates 
 one of those stories of sacrifice which mean to human 
 society not loss but gain. 
 
 As we honor those few hundred Greeks under Leon- 
 idas, giving up their lives in the Pass at Thermopylae, 
 if they might at least delay the advance of the mighty 
 Persian host; as we glory in those Belgians of own our 
 day who counted not their lives dear, in blocking the 
 way of the overpowering violators of their little nation's 
 neutrality; — So we do well to place this memorial here, 
 for those "Mayflower" Pilgrims who, in that first win- 
 ter faced their "rendezvous with death." 
 
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 Though we may know well the facts, yet the vivid 
 story of William Bradford so graphically pictures the 
 situation, that we may listen to his record once more: 
 
 "That which was most sadd and lamentable was that in two 
 or three months' time halfe of their company dyed, espetialy in 
 January, and February, being the depth of winter, and wanting 
 houses and other comforts; being infected with the scurvie and 
 other diseases, when this long voyage and their inacomodate con- 
 dition had brought upon them; so as ther dyed sometimes two 
 three of a day, in the foresaid time; that of one hundred and odd 
 persons, scarce fifty remained. And of these in the time of most 
 distress, ther was but six or seven sound persons, who to their 
 great commendations, be it spoken, spared no pains, night nor day, 
 but with abundance of toyle and hazard of their owne health, 
 fetched them woode, made them fires, drest them meat, made 
 their beads, washed their lothsome cloaths, cloathed and uncloathed 
 them."i 
 
 When Bradford wrote this, there was no reason to 
 draw a veil over the fact that half of the passengers 
 who had landed from the "Mayflower" laid down their 
 lives so soon as martyrs in this high adventure. But 
 in the earliest Journal, written in 1621, and published 
 in England the following year (usually called "Mourt's 
 Relations") a stern reticence is maintained, probably 
 to avoid discouragement among the supporters of the 
 enterprise in the homeland. ^ Yet even here a sugges- 
 tion of the sore trials is given (though with no hint 
 of unmanly complaining) when, in the entry of this 
 Journal for December 28th, mention is made of the 
 limited number of houses which the settlers undertook 
 to build, and the contracted area of the allotments: 
 
 "We thought this preparation was large enough at the first, 
 for houses and gardens, to impale them round, considering the 
 weakness of our people, many of them growing ill with colds, for 
 our former Discoveries in the frost and storms, and the wading 
 at Cape Cod, had brought much weakness amongst us, which 
 increased so every day more and more, and after was the cause 
 of many of their deaths. "^ 
 
 ^Wm. Bradford: "History of Plymouth Plantation." p. 108. 
 
 "See the remarks of Geo. B. Cheever, D. D. in Chapter XV 
 of his "Historical and Local Illustrations," published in connection 
 with the reprinting of "The Journal of the JPilgrims at Plymouth." 
 (2d Ed. p. 260.) 
 
 'Journal (Cheever's reprint,) p. 50. 
 
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 One of the last of the victims of this devastating 
 sickness was their first Governor, John Carver. Of his 
 burial alone is particular mention made in the early 
 chronicle, with the note that "Some vollies of shotte" 
 were fired "by all that bore arms." But among the 
 families of the most conspicuous leaders a heavy toll 
 was taken. Even before the landing at Plymouth, 
 while William Bradford was away exploring with a 
 squad of picked men, his wife was drowned. And in 
 the great sickness, the register kept by this careful 
 chronicler early notes the deaths of Edward Winslow's 
 wife, and of Isaac Allerton's wife. The entry in this 
 register for January 29th, 1621, — "Rose, the wife of 
 Captain Standish" — suggests to the imagination a part- 
 ing, touched with memories of youthful love and 
 pledged loyalty, such as make brave men still more 
 brave. 
 
 We judge of the quality of these men and women 
 by the dauntless demeanour of the survivors. What 
 farewell words of comfort were breathed by these pil- 
 grims to the life beyond we know not. For the records 
 of that time of trial find no place for such things. 
 But, that they departed not as defeated souls, but 
 rather, "greeting the unseen with a cheer," we may 
 believe not only from the general consideration of their 
 faith, but from the brave spirit of those they left 
 behind. 
 
 Undemonstrative indeed was this steady courage, 
 affording room for precaution against unknown dan- 
 gers, evinced in the tradition that lived among their 
 descendants, that the graves on Cole's hill, after the 
 great mortality in the first stage of the settlement, 
 were levelled and sown over by the settlers to conceal 
 the extent of their loss from the natives, "lest the 
 Indians, counting the number of the dead, should know 
 the weakness of the living."^ 
 
 iThatcher: "History of Plymouth," p. 28. 
 Cheever, op. cit., p. 266. 
 
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 But their determination held them on this forbidding 
 shore, of which Captain John Smith had declared that 
 he was not so simple as to suppose that any motive 
 other than riches would "ever erect there a common- 
 wealth or draw company from their ease and humors 
 at home to stay in New England. "^ 
 
 The early spring of 1621, when the fury of the 
 epidemic was not yet spent, saw "The Mayflower" 
 with its crew sail back to old England. But not one 
 of the Pilgrims turned back. Nay even, as a recent 
 writer has observed, "In March, in spite of the terrors 
 which encompassed them, in spite of the graves of the 
 dead which far outnumbered the homes of the living, 
 Winslow could yet note that 'the birds sang in the 
 woods most pleasantly.' "^ 
 
 Truly these forefathers of ours "lived dangerously," 
 in a very real and definite sense, quite beyond the 
 spiritual horizon of the modern philosopher who coined 
 the phrase! 
 
 In concrete experience, they could live up to that 
 proud claim in the letter from Holland, three years 
 before, written to London by two of their leaders: "It 
 is not with us as with other men, whom small things 
 can discourage, or small discontentments cause to wish 
 themselves home again."* 
 
 Whatever may have been the limitations of their 
 theology, in their attitude towards the hard things that 
 a soldier of Christ must learn to face with bravery, 
 they have bequeathed to us a rich heritage, whereof 
 we should strive to be worthy. 
 
 II. This occasion, however, invites a consideration 
 of their adventure in its relation to the broad currents 
 of thought which affect powerfully the course of history. 
 
 ^Fiske, "Beginnings of New Eng.," p. 79. 
 
 3J. Truslow Adams, in "The founding of New England." p. 100. 
 ^Letter from John Robinson and William Brewster, in Brad- 
 ford's History, p. 55. 
 
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 That group of "Mayflower" Pilgrims belonged to 
 the general movement which we call Puritanism, yet 
 with a difference. The great revolution, known as the 
 Protestant Reformation, was determined by intellec- 
 tual, political and economic conditions, as well as by 
 the revolt of great religious leaders against the ecclesi- 
 astical institutions of the earlier age. Such things as 
 the revival of classical learning, the discovery of new 
 lands, and the rise of nationalism contributed their 
 influence in varying measure, in different countries. 
 
 In England, the new national consciousness strongly 
 reacted upon the spirit of individualism which stands 
 out as the distinctive feature of the Reformation era 
 A congenial soil, indeed, had been prepared there for 
 the growth of individualism by the hard-won achieve- 
 ments of civil liberty and the experience of local self- 
 government. A ready response was given, among our 
 sturdy forefathers in the sea-girt isle, to the doctrines 
 of Luther and Calvin stressing the responsibility of the 
 individual soul, and English Puritanism, in one aspect 
 of it, stands as the embodiment of this principle of 
 individualism. 
 
 But the newly awakened nationalism coinciding 
 with the reigns of the Tudors, and fostered by the 
 dominating personalities of that dynasty, made for the 
 entrenchment of the Church as an institution, at once 
 protected and exploited by the royal authority. We see 
 this in the official statement of William Cecil, the flrst 
 Lord Burghley, on the expelling of certain Puritan 
 clergy from their livings: 
 
 "For the religion which they profess, I reverence them and 
 their calling; but for their unconformity, I acknowledge myself 
 no way warranted to deal for them, because the course they take 
 is no way safe in such a monarchy as this; where Mis Majesty 
 aimeth at no other end than where there is but one true faith and 
 doctrine preached, there to eatablish one form, so as a perpetual 
 peace may be settled in the Church of God."i 
 
 IS. R. Gardiner, "History of England," I, p. 200. 
 
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 The historian, Gardiner's, comment on the above 
 is suggestive: 
 
 "The view thus taken was that of the man of business in all 
 ages and in all parts of the world. To such natures the strength 
 which freedom gives is entirely inconceivable."^ 
 
 The problem for those whose hearts and consciences 
 were especially responsive to the more individualistic 
 manifestations of Protestantism was, how to be loyal 
 as Englishmen to the nation of which they were justly 
 proud, and yet not to surrender that "patriotism of 
 the soul" (to borrow the phrase of James Russell 
 Lowell in connection with a situation not dis- 
 similar) by which they felt themselves "citizens of an 
 invisible and holier fatherland" with a supreme "duty 
 and privilege as liegemen of truth. "^ This, I think, is 
 the key to the religious controversies in England, es- 
 pecially throughout the reigns of Elizabeth and of 
 James First. The diflficulty was on the institutional side, 
 as the statement just quoted from Lord Burghley shows. 
 Law and Order had to be upheld. Men had yet to 
 learn that diverse systems of ecclesiastical government, 
 and varying forms of public worship could be tolerated 
 in an orderly state. That way, they thought then, lay 
 anarchy. The great mass of the Puritanical party were 
 as firm supporters of the Church establishment as the 
 most ardent lovers of the forms and settled institu- 
 tions that emphasized the dignity and the reverence 
 of outward worship. As Dr Leonard Bacon has written: 
 
 "The Puritan was a Nationalist, believing that a 
 Christian nation is a Christian Church." 
 
 It was seen afterwards, in the parliamentary tri- 
 umph in the Civil Wars, what rigorous use the Puritans 
 could make of the power of repression when it was in 
 their hands. 
 
 nbid, p. 201. 
 
 'I borrow the phrases of James Russell Lowell in reference to 
 a situation not dissimilar, confronting the New England descen- 
 dants of these Puritans ("Bigelow Papers"). 
 
22 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 Men had strong convictions in those days. And, 
 while one may lament the tragedy which arrayed the 
 quest for personal rights so often against much that 
 was hallowed and beautiful and true, and while we 
 rightly blame the principle of Church establishment as 
 contributing to this unhappy strife, it is hardly pro- 
 fitable to condemn the intolerance of that time. It is 
 better to inquire whether intolerance in other spheres 
 has taken the place today of intolerance in religion. 
 And it is but fair to take account of that devotion to 
 principle, not confined to one party in the contest, 
 which in the end worked out the measure of liberty 
 and toleration which we now enjoy. 
 
 III. But it is time to consider particularly that 
 special offshoot of the great Puritan movement to 
 which the travellers in "The Mayflower" belonged, — 
 that rather obscure eddy, as it were, in the main 
 current of the movement, which ultimately influenced 
 so profoundly the stream of progress. It is necessary 
 to make plain distinctions here. 
 
 While the great body of the Puritan party believed 
 in the establishment of Religion by the authority of 
 the State, there were a few early witnesses for a 
 different conception, some of whom sealed their devo- 
 tion to the doctrine of Separatism or Independance on 
 the gallows. Separatist congregations arose from time 
 to time, often going to anarchical extremes, — as always 
 will happen under a policy of indiscriminate repression.^ 
 
 The accession of James I in 1603 and his disappoint- 
 ing attitude provoked the rising spirit of liberty among 
 men of more sober mind and more stable character. 
 His familiarity with the Presbyterian polity in Scotland, 
 it was hoped by the Puritans, would make him ready 
 to receive their complaints against the bishops. But 
 that familiarity seemed to work the other way, and 
 cause him to welcome and cultivate episcopal sub- 
 
 'See J. Truslow Adams, "Founding of New England" pp. 67-68, 
 
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 serviency. Though at first giving hopes of some meas- 
 ure of tolerance, he snubbed the Puritan divines with 
 the famous dictum (so fraught with evil for the Church 
 as well as the State): "No bishop no king;"^ and 
 dismissed them with the truculent threat, "I will make 
 them conform or I will harry them out of the land." 
 
 The rise of the Separatist congregation of Scrooby, 
 which was the nucleus of the ultimate "Mayflower" 
 company, dates from 1606, hardly two years after the 
 Hampton Court Conference, at which the impolitic 
 king so defiantly proclaimed his absolutist theory of 
 rule, and cemented the ill-omened alliance between 
 autocracy in the state and episcopacy in the Church. 
 It is reasonable to assume a connection of cause and 
 effect here. 
 
 William Brewster, the tenant of Scrooby Manor, 
 doubtless had imbibed Puritan principles through his 
 connection with the Elizabethan statesman, William 
 Davison, — though even so, his early sojourn in the 
 Netherlands as a member of Davison's embassy had 
 probably tempered the hardness of Puritan doctrine. 
 But, holding as he did since 1587 the important ap- 
 pointment of "Post," or master of the court mails and 
 government messages,^ he would have been constantly 
 under observation, and any unlawful religious meetings 
 in his house would have been known. It is only after 
 the Hampton Court Conference that we begin to hear 
 of these meetings at Scrooby Manor, and in 1607, 
 Brewster ceased to hold office. 
 
 For upwards of two years, however, the illegal 
 religious assemblages gathered for their simple worship 
 on Sunday afternoons at Scrooby Manor, imbibing the 
 teaching and the spirit of a remarkable man. Rev. 
 John Robinson. 
 
 ^Frere, "Hist of Eng. Church in Reigns of Elizabeth and 
 James I," p. 297. 
 
 ^Morton Dexter, "The England and Holland of the Pilgrims," 
 pp. 237; 320. 
 
24 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 IV. It was to Robinson, in the providence of God, 
 that this Scrooby group owed much of its distinctive 
 quality. His was no stationary mind. At this period, 
 no doubt, the negative principle of independence was 
 emphasized by him and his flock. They followed the 
 logic of their individualistic creed to its conclusion. To 
 their thinking, the Mother Church had become cor- 
 rupted by worldly influences and human inventions. 
 In this respect they held common ground with the 
 other stout Calvinists known as Puritans. But in their 
 endeavors to realize their ideal of a Church they were 
 more single-minded than the bulk of the Puritan party. 
 Convinced by hard experience that the ruling powers 
 of the Church were bound to repress that "liberty of 
 prophesying" to which they believed the Spirit of God 
 was leading them, they resolutely — even if, as we may 
 believe, reluctantly — sacrificed the lesser loyalty to 
 authority to the higher loyalty to the Spirit, and 
 separated from that Church, which they had come to 
 think was hopelessly fettered by its connection with 
 the State. This step of Separatism was repugnant, as 
 has been said, to the Puritan party no less than to 
 Anglicans in full sympathy with the ritual of the 
 Prayer Book and the rule of Bishops. Compelled to 
 choose between imprisonment and exile, they became 
 Pilgrims, and the land of William the Silent gave them 
 sanctuary. 
 
 Not the first group of Separatists to take refuge in 
 Holland were these Pilgrims from Scrooby. More than 
 one congregation had already settled in Amsterdam, 
 the port of their initial sojourn. And here soon comes 
 to light the quality which distinguished the follwers 
 of John Robinson from the other Separatists. For in 
 Amsterdam there had already developed those objec- 
 tionable tendencies which are the dangers of such a 
 position — a narrow censoriousness, uncharitableness, 
 petty divisions, what we today would call "crankiness" 
 — in short the perils of individualism without the per- 
 
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 spective which the sense of wide corporate fellowship 
 gives. This atmosphere of fractional strife was uncon- 
 genial to Robinson and his flock, and therefore, after 
 due negotiation with the truly liberal-minded burghers 
 of Leyden,^ that hospitable city became their abiding 
 place for eleven years; and the university there, already 
 famous though still young, welcomed Robinson, a 
 Cambridge graduate, to its membership. ^ 
 
 Thrice a week, as Bradford tells us, this man of 
 light and leading taught these simple but thoughtful 
 English exiles in the old Dutch town. We have not 
 his sermons. But from other writings of his we may 
 infer the sort of teaching on which the future 
 "Mayflower" voyagers were nourished. It was an era 
 of religious controversy, and Robinson himself had 
 positive convictions. But here is a characteristic pas- 
 sage from one of his essays: 
 
 "Disputations in religion are sometimes necessary, but always 
 dangerous; drawing the best spirits into the head from the heart, 
 and leaving it either empty of all, or too full of fleshly zeal and 
 passion if extraordinary care be not taken still to supply and fill 
 it anew with pious affections towards God and loving towards 
 men."^ 
 
 Again, we find him arguing for civil tolerance of 
 alleged religious errors: "considering that neither God 
 is pleased with unwilling worshippers, nor Christian 
 Societies bettered, nor the persons themselves either 
 . and being at first constrained to practice 
 against conscience (many) lose all conscience after- 
 
 ^See "Leyden Documents Relating to the Pilgrim Fathers," 
 pub. by Netherlands-American Institute, 1920, with preface by 
 Dr. J. R. Harris, and Dr. I. J. Plooij. 
 
 ^See art. by F. J. Powicke, "John Robinson and Pilgrim 
 Movement," in Harv. Theol. Rev., July. 1920, pp. 269-280, a 
 valuable correction to R. G. Usher. 
 
 'F. J. Powicke, "J. Robinson & Beginnings of the Pilgrim 
 Movement." in Harv. Theol. Rev. for July, 1920, p. 270. 
 
26 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 wards. Bags and vessels overstrained break, and will 
 never after hold anything."^ 
 
 Now it is the simple truth, that in the temper of 
 the Plymouth Colony — by contrast particularly with 
 the strong neighboring colony of Massachusetts Bay — 
 we see plainly the fruit of this "Christian Wisdom" of 
 their pastor whom they had left behind. This distinc- 
 tion has not always been recognized, and historical 
 justice demands that we recognize it. And, though 
 certain investigators have questioned the genuineness 
 of the famous "Farewell Address" which Edward 
 Winslow records, comparison with John Robinson's 
 unquestioned writings, that reveal the forward move- 
 ment of his mind, ever aspiring to regions of freedom 
 and light, confirms belief in Winslow's fidelity to the 
 spirit of his parting injunctions. "He charged us" — 
 so runs the summary of the noble address — "before 
 God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further 
 than he followed Christ; and if God should reveal 
 anything to us by any other Instrument of his, to be 
 as ready to receive it, as ever we were to receive any 
 truth by his Ministry. For he was very confident the 
 Lord had more truth and light yet to break forth out 
 of his Holy Word."^ 
 
 The Pilgrims, then, were dedicated by their wise 
 and godly teacher to the principle of progress in 
 thought, held true by loyalty to Christ. And we honor 
 them for their general fidelity to that principle. They 
 had moved, in sympathy with the spirit of their open- 
 minded pastor, from a position of negative revolt, to 
 a positive stage, not of course tolerant of all religious 
 vagaries, but giving room for a generous measure of 
 inclusiveness.^ 
 
 iPowicke, op. cit. "Harv. Theol. Rev.," p. 286. 
 
 ^Wm. W. Fenn, "John Robinson's Farewell Address," in Harv. 
 Theol. Rev., July, 1920. p. 236. 
 
 iCf. Powicke, op. cit. "Harv. Theol. Rev.," p. 280-1. Note 
 also, an article in same no. of the "Review" by W. W. Fenn, on 
 
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 V. Moreover, no less noteworthy than this quality 
 of forward-looking idealism, was the political sagacity 
 of the Plymouth leaders. Witness the well-known 
 "Compact" in the cabin of "The Mayflower," when 
 confronted with the impending dangers of lawlessness 
 on the part of certain fellow-adventurers who had 
 joined them in England before their embarkation on 
 their west-bound journey. ^ 
 
 Surely no unpractical, wild-eyed fanatics were these 
 Pilgrim Fathers. Deeper than their Puritan eccentricity 
 was their English sanity. They came of a stock imbued 
 with principles of law-abidingness, trained for social 
 action. Though first of all citizens of a heavenly coun- 
 try, they never forgot that they were Englishmen; and 
 to this was due their refusal of their Dutch hosts' 
 invitation to plant a colony in the island of Zealand, 
 or even to join with the settlers at New Amsterdam. 
 They would remain English. And so New England was 
 born of this marriage of spiritual devotion with racial 
 loyalty. 
 
 The President of the United States, in the striking 
 address given in this place this summer, sugges- 
 tively pointed out how the ideals of English self 
 government, which found expression in this Plymouth 
 Settlement, are "the basis of social conduct, of com- 
 munity relations, throughout the world." Indeed we 
 touch but one element in the character and power of 
 these Pilgrim Fathers, when we speak, of their indivi- 
 dualism. That was the more superficial element, forced 
 into temporary prominence by the political and religious 
 ferment of their age. More fundemental was their 
 innate social consciousness. And here, once more, John 
 Robinson's wise interpretation of life is manifest, in a 
 letter to the voyagers which Bradford has preserved: 
 
 "John Robinson's Farewell Address," wherein Prof. Fenn as- 
 cribes great influence in developing the Catholic spirit of the 
 Pilgrims to Wm. Brewster, p, 250-1. 
 
 ^Bradford "Hist, of Plymouth," p. 106. 
 
28 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 "A fourth thing there is carefully to be provided for, to witte, 
 that with your commone employments you joyne commone affec- 
 tions truly bent upon the generall good, avoyding as a deadly 
 plague of your both commone and spetiall comfort all retirednes 
 of mind for proper advantage, and all singularly affected any 
 manner of way; let every man represse in him selfe and the whol 
 body in each person, as so many rebels against the commone 
 good, all private respects of mens selves, not sorting with the 
 generall convenience." ^ 
 
 To such principles, applicable alike in religion and 
 in the body politic, — yes, and in the relations of nations 
 to one another, — our Pilgrim fathers gave their ad- 
 herence. In such a spirit, rising far above a merely 
 negative conception of liberty, those whom we com- 
 memorate today, yeilded up their lives on this shore. 
 To that spirit of fine idealism, looking beyond self- 
 centered satisfaction, and tempered too with sane prac- 
 ticality, may we be faithful, as we strive towards the 
 consummation (devoutly to be wished) of genuine 
 freedom, and peace among men! 
 
 For, though the 16th century emphasis upon indi- 
 vidualism was no doubt a necessary phase in the 
 evolution of society, and though we derive from it 
 valuable elements, not lightly to be abandoned, 
 individualism is by no means the last word in human 
 progress. 
 
 It is the value of interdependence, not mere inde- 
 pendence, that our age is bringing home to us, — 
 the truth that we are members one of another — the 
 call to fellowship, and the sharing in a common 
 life. In this our day, let us heed the divine voice, as 
 our forefathers listened, and, at cost of exile, suffering 
 and sacrifice of life itself faithfully, humbly, yet daunt- 
 lessly obeyed. 
 
 Organ Selection — Andante Religioso Horatio W. Parker 
 Mr. Albert W. Snow 
 
 Chairman Davis. I will now ask our new Elder 
 General to pronounce the benediction. 
 
 ^Bradford, "Hist, of Plymouth Plantation"pp. 85-86. 
 
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 Rev. Harry St. Clair Hathaway, D. D. 
 
 Elder General-Elect 
 
 While we ask God's divine blessing upon our memo- 
 rial and upon this gathering, let us be mindful of those 
 whom we memorialize. 
 
 Almighty and everliving God, we yield unto Thee 
 most high praise and hearty thanks, for the wonderful 
 grace and virtue declared in all thy saints, who have 
 been the choice vessels of thy grace, and the lights of 
 the world in their several generations; most humbly 
 beseeching thee to give us grace so to follow the ex- 
 ample of their stedfastness in thy faith, and obedience 
 to thy holy commandments, that at the day of the 
 general Resurrection, we, with all those who are of the 
 mystical body of thy Son, may be set on his right 
 hand, and hear that his most joyful voice: Come, ye 
 blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared 
 for you from the foundation of the world. 
 
 Grant this, Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our 
 only Mediator and Advocate. Amen. 
 
 Unto God's gracious Mercy we commit ourselves. 
 May the Lord bless us and keep us. May the Lord 
 make his face to shine upon us, and be gracious to us. 
 May the Lord lift up his countenance upon us, and 
 give us peace, both now and forevermore. Amen. 
 
 Following the exercises at the First Church, the 
 delegates and friends in attendance were marshaled 
 under Acting General Murray and his aides, and 
 marched to the Permanent Memorial on Cole's Hill, 
 where the proceedings were resumed, as follows: 
 
 Chairman Howland Davis: Ladies and gentle- 
 men, and friends, it is now my duty as Chairman of 
 the Committee entrusted with the work already ac- 
 complished here, to announce that we have completed 
 our labors and having so completed our labors, it is 
 
30 ORDER OF EXERCISES 
 
 our duty and our pleasure to hand over to the repre- 
 sentative of the Society, Deputy Governor and Acting 
 Governor General French, the memorial which has 
 been prepared and carried out by this Society. Mr. 
 French, we turn over the monument to you. 
 
 Acting Governor General French 
 
 Mr. President [addressing President Arthur Lord, 
 of the Pilgrim Society], in the name and behalf of the 
 General Society of Mayflower Descendants, and in 
 response to the generous and gracious offer of the 
 Pilgrim Society, I now confide to that kindred organi- 
 zation, through you as its head, the pious and perpetual 
 care of this monument, erected by the General Society 
 to commemorate those of the Mayflower passengers 
 who died earliest in Plymouth. 
 
 Hon. Arthur Lord, President of the Pilgrim Society. 
 
 Mr. Governor General, in this grateful task of 
 commemoration, the Commonwealth has joined with 
 your Society, has turned aside the highway which for 
 so many years passed over the line of graves, has 
 enclosed and protected the original burial place of those 
 of the Pilgrim company who died the first winter, and 
 now all that is mortal which remains of those who 
 were buried here has been placed beneath this stone, 
 never again to be disturbed. 
 
 In behalf of the Pilgrim Society and in compliance 
 with your request, I accept the important trust and 
 high responsibility which you have imposed. There is 
 no spot, Sir, where the associations are more tender 
 and inspiring and persuasive than this on which we 
 stand today. Fitly there crowns it this beautiful sar- 
 cophagus, a memorial at once simple and appro- 
 priate, reverential and dignified, and here. Sir, may it 
 stand forever. 
 
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 "So let it live unfading, 
 
 The memory of the dead, 
 Long as the pale anemone 
 
 Springs where their tears were shed, 
 Or raining in the summer's wind. 
 
 In flakes of burning red. 
 The wild rose sprinkles with its leaves 
 
 The turf where once they bled!" 
 
 Chairman Davis: This wreath has been placed on 
 the monument by the General Society. An opportunity 
 will now be given by the Captain General for the 
 delegates and members to step up and deposit their 
 individual flower on the monument as we resume the 
 march. 
 
 As the delegates and members marched past, each 
 deposited a flower on the Memorial, after which the 
 procession moved to the Plymouth Tavern, where a 
 lunch was served. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON THE TERCENTENARY 
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 AND PERMANENT MEMORIAL 
 
 Former Governor General Rowland Davis, New York, 
 Chairman 
 
 Deputy Governor General Asa P. French, Massa- 
 chusetts 
 
 Secretary General Addison P. Munroe, Rhode Island 
 
 Former Governor General Thomas S. Hopkins, Dis- 
 trict of Columbia 
 
 Deputy Governor General Arthur H. Bennett, 
 Kansas 
 
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