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Extempore Remarks - 1
The great theme so deeply and solemnly
expounded by the preacher, has been exemplified in all ages, but chiefly in the
great crises of nations or of the human race. It is then that supreme devotion to Principle
has especially been called for and manifested. It is then that we learn a
little more of the nothingness of evil, and more of the divine energies of
good, and strive valiantly for the liberty of the sons of God.
The day we
celebrate reminds us of the heroes and heroines who counted not their own lives
dear to them, when they sought the New England shores, not as the flying nor as
conquerors, but, steadfast in faith and love, to build upon the rock of Christ,
the true idea of God — the supremacy of Spirit and the nothingness of
matter. When first the Pilgrims planted
their feet on Plymouth Rock, frozen ritual and creed should forever have melted
away in the fire of love which came down from heaven. The Pilgrims came to establish a nation in
true freedom, in the rights of conscience.
(Eddy, Mary Baker,
Miscellaneous Writings, 176:4-24)
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