Show Holland Will Honor u Pilgrims Tercentenary of Their Sailing From That Country to Be Observed AMERICAN CITIZENS S INVITED Distinguished Committee Is Making Preparations for Exercises in September September Sep Sep- Celebration English Will Follow Fallow That of Holland New York A A distinguished commIttee committee committee com com- has been formed in the Netherlands Netherlands Neth Neth- erlands for the observance of the tercentenary tercentenary tercentenary ter ter- ter- ter centenary of the tIle sailing of the Pilgrim Fathers It includes several sc ministers of state stater an nn premier ex-premier the chief Burgomasters Burgomasters Bur Bur- and the leading governors of ot provinces writes Rev J. J Irvin Brown Drown in the New York Vor World d. d The universities are well represented on ont especially it t that of Leyden as is fitting fitting and and the are well to tolie the lie fore Dr Henry Van Vans VanDyke Dyke of Princeton and nd Dr Dr J. J Rendel J Rend Bendel r rI w Harris I of Manchester are members from America Amer- Amer America ica ca and England respectively as ns are Viscount Bryce the great exponent of American institutions In Europe and Lord ord n Reay r the Dutch statesman who years ago was summoned to become hell heir to the MacKay estates estates' In Great Britain Plan Is Outlined The representative committee e of ot management has bas already done much having outlined the plan of their meetIngs meetings meet- meet Ings fyr for the celebrations and congress The Congress is the learned part of f the festival and will be held chiefly in the Leyden university where the scholarly side of Pilgrim history will willbe wille be e considered This will wUl be of much greater popular interest than such scholastIc gatherings usually are seeing seeing see- see ing ng that many striking facts In fa connection connection con- con with Pilgrim history have recently recently re- re been unearthed from the Leyden Leyden Leyden Ley Ley- den archives Some of these are of chivalrous and heroic c character others others oth- oth ers rs have their amusing side The Larger arger ni meetings of the congress ss wl will l be either In the tIle cathedral the kerk or St. St Peters Peter's church or In the great auditorium of the university There some of the foremost orators rs of America and of Holland are expected to t speak Proceedings will be partly in English which all educated Hollanders Hollanders Hol Hol- landers understand and partly in Dutch After two da days s 's in Leyden Leden the congress congress congress con con- gress will move to Amsterdam where a n trul truly regal reception awaits them They will visit th the state picture gallery gallery gallery gal gal- lery under distinguished guidance and take part in religious services in the ancl ancient the English Reformed Reformed Reformed Re Re- formed church where the remnant of the Pilgrim community those that remained on In Amsterdam in 1620 finally sought church membership On the Pilgrims' Pilgrims Trail On Thursday September 2 it Is proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed that American members of the congress be carried by canal boats from Leyden to or or ot ut least a part of that way way along along the exact route traversed on July 31 1020 by the earliest group of Pilgrims that sough sought a a home ahome in New England On arriving at Rotterdam of which Delfs Dells haven n Is now an integral part the visitors will twill be taken by some large and commodious v vessel around the harbors luncheon will be served on onboard onboard onboard board and afterward dinner During the Interval a n service will be conducted conducted conducted con con- ducted in the venerable Dutch church of and a popular concert of American and Dutch sacred music will be given in the cathedral of St St. Lawrence This edifice recently restored restored re re- re- re stored Is one of the most stately and Impressive in the Netherlands It Is replete with historic mementoes and andas andas as It seats some Home five thousand hearers one may may judge what impression this function may make both on American and Dutch delegates It will be the crowning event vent in to this series On the preceding Sundays devotional services have been arranged to be addressed by eminent American pastors in the ancient Scots' Scots church of Rotterdam Rotterdam- the the church churell of the exiled Coven banished by Charles H and It-and and In the still more venerable English reformed church in the Bag Amsterdam The latter is associated not pot only with Pilgrim history but with the time and heroic stories of the Reformed Church of America and the Reformed Church in the United States It is exp expected ex ex- p that one of t the e events of the Amsterdam visit will be the unveiling unveil unveil- ring ing of memorial windows No doubt douht also the plan to have a I fitting memorial erected elected in memory of the Pilgrims at nt will be carried carried carried car car- ried out We Ve can scarcely ly exaggerate what America and Indeed the world owes to 10 Holland And that debt is due to Holland not merely through the Pilgrims but through the Dutch Influence Influence influence ence in New York and through the time Influence of the Reformed Church In Inthe inthe inthe the United States still further south But the main subject of this sympathetic sympathetic sympathetic Dutch celebration will be lie the time Pilgrims' Pilgrims heritage heritage and and that is a marvelous marvelous marvelous mar mar- one The Pilgrims loved liberty before they sought refuge in Holland but in Holland they had their love of lIb liberty Immeasurably deepened and and in in- They learned tolerance as the most tolerant nation then existing un understood JCl stood it they learned yearned representatIve representative representative government freedom of press personal care and concern for forthe forthe the time poor and such practical concerns as the time keeping of archives the documenting documenting docu docu- of titles and deeds And It must not be forgotten that th the twelve years ears that the Pilgrims spent pent In the time Federation tIon of States now called Holland Holland Hol Hol- land taught them to anal analyze and think ou out the problems of states' states rights and federal government nt Truly Holland was the nursing mother of the time noble band bond that afterward founded New England as us she was the direct mother of so mud much that was at first directly and exclusively Dutch In the great reat commonwealth I All Americans Americana Invited All this und many n ml new and fi C e 11 aspects aspects as as- of ot the tho old ohm questions ns will be presented presented pre pre- ut t it the congress by 11 the best hest minds of or dig America America hIes and law and and d by the best thinkers oi of Holland the time trained sons sono of ot hell he hean heinn ancient ancient an nn dent schools of learning The English celebrations begin at al althe atthe atthe the conclusion of the Do Duch eh C congress I and last a week weel They will be held In part at ati Southampton and Plymouth and in part at Scrooby the cradle of the Pilgrim community Thus th the two series of m meetings tings are closely co- co co No event In the memory of the present present pres pres- ent generation It la is thought will wUl so move Holland as this historic festi festi- val While it is in the he main and primarily marily manly religious It appeals to th imagination of nil all readers of history and all who know what the Pilgrims stood for All AU American citizens who are In sympathy with these principles are cordially Invited to be present The speakers and the delegates will willbe willbe be the time special guests of the Le Leyden deh commission at the houses of private citizens and they will wUl be received with enthusiasm and their visit held in high honor hOllor It might be well for Intending visitors to the congress congress' to write at once to the office of the Holland Commission on Pilgrim Fathers 45 Le Leyden den Holland Amsterdam was the great missionary mission mission- ary centre for the world orld from rom the year ar 1650 for a century onward It planted and kept vigorously alive the time Dutch Church of or America Amerl a and it subsequently fostered the Reformed Church in the United States by supplyIng supplying supplying sup sup- plying the ordinances of religion trainIng train- train traInIng training Ing her ministers supporting her by handsome gifts gilts All this will wUl be and ought to be borne in mind when Amsterdam asks mem memorial windows to be placed in the church churchIn In memory of the Pilgrims and as a token of appreciation from those Reformed Reformed Reformed Re Re- formed churches of America that are Indebted for their very existence to the munificence and sympathy of ot ancient Amsterdam r Ro Rotterdam's Special Cla Claim m. m But it Is Rotterdam that needs needs' this thu more distinctive memorial of or the present hour For Del the time classic spot from which the Speedwell Speedwell Speedwell Speed Speed- well started is now the most flourIshing flourishing flour flourishing part of the Rotterdam port JOlt and In Rotterdam within the next few years there will be he an enormously In Increased increased increased in- in creased percentage of American vessels ves Yes sels The present tr trying condition pf of affairs has only to right itself to a small smail degree and that Dutch port will willbe willbe willbe be filled with American shipping For years America must feed Europe and time the vast commercial relations which this will bring about will remain for generations and grow long after the Initial necessities of the situation have passed away For the Am American rican sailor In Rotterdam there must be a ft Sailors' Sailors Rest with modern equip equIp- ment It is proposed to call it the Pilgrims Pilgrims' Rest Speedwell This will be the most worthy memorial memorial me mc morial that America can raise It will keep alive the story of the Pilgrims show how the great republic appreciates appreciates all that Holland has done and it will provide for the tile social and spiritual spir spiro spiritual well being of Americas America's young oung sailors giving them n a home all and safeguarding safe safe- safeguarding afe guarding them amid the allurements and perils of a foreign port If the Pilgrims could come ha back k to yen y- y en and look around them if they could be interrogated this tercentenary year on do what they might consider their most fitting memorial it is safe to conI conjecture conjecture con con- I jecture that they would say ay Build a n ahouse house of rest and Of ot prayer for our own children the seafarers from the West who throng the streets street of ol this Dutch city without knowing the ways of ot Its pe people without speaking speaking Its tongue It Is not certain they would sn say Build the tombs of the prophets If you ou will wUl but remember the needs of ot the living too This ought ye to have done and not hot leave the other othel undone The erection of a Pilgrims' Pilgrims Rest at will be a work of ot pty philanthropy and gratitude |