Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons.

Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else besides him.

And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

To drive out nations from before thee, greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath there is none else.

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Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever. - Deut. iv. 8, 9, 34, 35, 37 – 40.

Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?

Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their children, and their children another generation. — Joel i. 2, 3. Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers. Prov. xvii. 6.

God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. Selah.

Let the people praise thee, O God; let all the people praise thee.

O, let the nations be glad, and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge

the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.

God shall bless us; and all the ends of the earth shall fear him. — Ps. lxvii. 1, 3, 4, 7.

That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner-stones, polished after the similitude of a palace.

Happy is that people that is in such a case; yea, happy is that people whose God is the Lord. Ps. cxliv. 12, 15.

Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises.

Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. Romans

ix. 4, 5.

Be wise now, therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.

Kiss the son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. Ps. ii. 10, 12.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.

Ps. xxxiii. 12, 22.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah. Ps. xlvi. 1, 7.

Hymn, written by Rev. Dr. Flint:

In pleasant lands have fallen the lines
That bound our goodly heritage,
And safe beneath our sheltering vines.

Our youth is blessed, and soothed our age.

What thanks, O God, to thee are due,

That thou didst plant our fathers here,
And watch and guard them as they grew,
A vineyard to the planter dear!

The toils they bore our ease have wrought;
They sowed in tears, in joy we reap.
The birthright they so dearly bought
We'll guard till we with them shall sleep.

Thy kindness to our fathers shown,

In weal and woe, through all the past,

Their grateful sons, O God, shall own,

While here their name and race shall last.

The religious observances closed with a benediction by Rev. Charles S. Porter.

After these services were over, the procession was formed, under the direction of the Chief Marshal, and marched through Court, Main, Leyden, Water, North, Market, High, Bartlett, Summer, and Pleasant Streets, to the Town Green, where a pavilion had been erected, in which twenty-five hundred could be seated. There were at least seven hundred ladies there, when the procession arrived; they took seats on one side of each table. The pavilion was decorated with the English and Dutch flags, with thirty-one shields hanging, representing the States of the Union. On one side of the pavilion was this inscription:

"The Fathers of the Country, the men who, as they first trod the soil of New England, scattered the principles of republican freedom and national independence."

And opposite to it was this:

They knew they were Pilgrims, and looked not much on these things; but lifted up their eyes to Heaven, their dearest country, and quieted their spirits."

The President called on Rev. Wm. Adams of New York to ask the Divine blessing, which he did in the following words : —

"Our Father and our God, we ask thy blessing upon us as we have assembled to commemorate thy ways of wisdom and of wonder, and to offer a memorial of praise for what thou hast done for

us and our fathers. We thank thee for their virtues, for their valor, and for thy protection over them upon the sea and in the wilderness, and for the large heritage thou hast given unto them and unto us. We thank thee for the glorious hopes which open before us; for civil and religious liberty; for good government; for wholesome laws; for our institutions of learning and of religion; for the glorious promises and prospects for the future. May this occasion be blessed to the promotion of Christian gratitude, of true patriotism, and to the better performance of our duty to one another and to thee; - which we ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”

A most capital dinner was now partaken of. It was provided by John Wright in his best style, and gave great satisfaction to all.

At the conclusion of the dinner, the President called the company to order and addressed them as follows:

GENTLEMEN AND LADIES, -The Pilgrim Society having voted to celebrate the anniversary of the embarkation of the Pilgrims from Delft Haven in 1620, we are assembled here to pay our tribute to their memory, and, by pondering anew on their virtues, to go out into the world to perpetuate their principles and to hold them up as the only true basis of religious and political freedom. It is a great event we are commemorating. When that small vessel left the Old World, with those few but heroic men and women on its deck, then went forth the word that founded an empire in this western world; then did speed well the mighty principles of Robinson's church, as his followers, casting themselves in perfect faith on God's goodness, sought thus afar from home "freedom to worship God."

I shall not attempt to depict the voyage of the

I leave that to another,

Mayflower across the ocean. who I trust will, during the afternoon, carry us, as it were, on board the ship, to sympathize in the trials, ay, and in the joys, of the small company there assembled. We stand, gentlemen and ladies, on sacred ground, here in old Plymouth, the first residence of our fathers in America. Whose heart does not beat with gratitude, as from this spot he looks abroad on and over this continent, and recollects that two hundred and thirty-three years ago the wild Indian held all as hunting-ground, and that all this has been converted into beautiful towns and cities from the forest, and made homes for the millions who now reside in our land, made so because John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Miles Standish, and a few others, here planted a colony whose principles, declared before they landed, were a foundation as sure and solid as the rock on which they would soon set their feet!

The spot is sacred indeed. We may look out and view that island whereon they rested to thank God for guidance. We have passed over the rock whereon they landed; it will ever be a hallowed spot. We have seen Cole's Hill, where many of the first little company lie buried. Many of us daily walk lightly over the ashes of the dead. It has seemed to me at times as if the wail of the manding us for our forgetfulness. be consecrated by a monument that shall teach generations yet unborn that here commenced America and liberty, and that the only sure foundations for a

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