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Show THE DESERET EAGLE. Shut out of agri- accross the channel from the land all thev had to America. culture and from conquest by German forests. The home was Thev too found what thev sought, l:nil, he found in commerce a an organism of which the in- - Thev found the wilderness and He they planted there the Christian source of great prosperity. (Jive dividual was a living part. him a ship and a rooky island lived for the sake of his home home. The genius of the Anglo-Saxosomewhere in a foreign land upon and his home existed' for him. which to establish his trading On! of the organism of the home for organization out of and post, and he was sure to increase came an organizing power. Gobi, around the home, God s best gilt his riches and multiply his wealth. glory, commerce, were valued so to humanity, needed a new envir-omenAsia would not answer. If a new route to India was to he !far and so far onlv as thev America to Europe was not lit. found, or a new world was to he enabled the Anglo-Savoopened up to commerce, the j enrich and beautify' and streng- - with its broad prairies and lofty Dutchman must not bo left out. then his home. The family grew mounlians.its magnificent climate It was not long, then before the jto be a tribe, the tribe became a and exhaustive treasures, AmerDutch sloop was vexing the nation. The hut became a hamlet, ica with its infinite possibilities, waters of the Hudson and tin the hamlet a borough, or city. alone was adapted to supply Van Dvcks were running through But in all, the family idea and man's greatest need. You are familiar with the Ilellgate to appropriate Manhat- the home life prevailed. As the tan Island as the site of a Dutch house enclosed and sneileied tin wondrous storv of liberty in the factory, where beaver skins and family, so institutions, laws, the New World. Civil and religious hogsheads of tobacco might be state itself, environed and devel- freedom has here found an abidcollected and loaded on their oped the home. ing place. Freedom of motion is . But America was not Out of all these vessels. ours. Out of a free homo has Thev took came m due time the Puritan, conn clear eyed science and with for the Dutch. Holland and bv means of their the man who value I his home it rapid transit, which measuring dikes kept it. They took Man and his family life all the more by lime makes our contueut Italian Island, the key to the because he recognized God as the smaller than the potty principaliFreedom of The Puritan's ties of olden time. commerce of the New World, Father of all. Willi free but thev could hold it onlv for a ideal of the home was the most thought is ours. da v. Commerce enriches an old exalted of all. To realize this speech and a free pi ess and free ideal was the purpose of his be- schools have come the overthrow established state, often bv a new and weak ing. England no longer furnish- of superstition and a bursting of nation, but it has of itself little ed him the proper environment the barriers of ignorance. Free- He escaped to dom of labor is ours. For a time power to create new and abiding for his destiny. states. The Dutch cared more Holland: but its lowlands and the foul blot o! slavery seemed to for the peltry of the colonists than commercial spirit would not let doom millions to th" rod of the they did for the hunter ami trap- him fulfill his destiny. In due taskmaster, but those who gave time the Mayflower crossed the themselves to America poure per himself. There were castles in Spain, stormy seas and America was; out their blood until its re there were palaces in Franco, again discovered. But these (lis-- j current cleansed all the stain, there were ships in Holland, but coverers came'not madly seeking! Freedom of religion is our. The there were homes in Great Britain. for gold, nor rashly for glory, nor slake and the dungeon are no was not insensi- sellishlv for the profits of com-- : longer instruments of the soul's The Anglo-SaxoBut our Freedom ble to the allurmonts of gold, he merce to be spent presently in salvation. wa stirred bv the love of glorv as the the luxury of Spanish castles doe not mean "license ami law-anbv the blast of a bugle, he was French palaces: thev came lessno.ss; but rather knowledge of not ignorant of the advantages of seeking homes in a wilderness truth and voluntary obedience to commerce, but prominent in his where they migh worship God all that it commands, character was a love of home, after the dictates o4.' their own' What constitutes America of broiiirhl with him no doubt conscience and give themselves this (dosing century '.' So many was at home. n ! j t. j n I j I 4 Anglo-Saxons- j ! im-poverishi- ng - I : ; : n i J d |