1620 
 
 1920 
 
 December tKe T-wenty-first 
 
 Celebration 
 
 by the 
 
 State of Connecticut 
 
 of the 
 
 Tercentenary Anniversary 
 
 of the 
 
 Landing of the Pilgrim Fatkers and Motkers 
 at Plymoutli Rock 
 
"A great ho[^c and inward zcall they had of laying some good 
 foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto . . . yea, 
 though they should be but even as steplDing-stones unto others for ye 
 perjorming of so great a work." 
 
 — From Bradford's "History of Plymouth Plantation," 
 
 Page 32 
 
 CELEBRATION 
 
 As Authorized by the Connecticut Legislature of 
 
 1919 
 
 in commemoration of the 
 
 Three Hundredth Anniversary 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Landing of the Pilgrims at 
 Plymouth Rock 
 
 1620 
 
 Parsons Theatre Hartford, Connecticut 
 
 December the Twenty-first 
 1920 
 
 AT two-thirty o'clock, P. M. 
 
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 LIBRARY OF CONGKESS 
 
 RECEIVED 
 
 AUQS4t92l 
 
 DOCUMENTS DIVISION 
 
" Thus oul of smalle beginnings greater things have been 
 prodused by His hand yt made all things of nothing, and gives 
 being to all things that are; and as one smalle candle may light a 
 thousand, so ye light there kindled hath shone to many, yea, in 
 some sorte to our whole nation." 
 
 — From Bradford's "History of Plymouth Plantation," 
 
 Page 332 
 
 PROGRAM 
 
 Xhe Honorable Simeon E. Bald-win 
 Presiding 
 
 Singing 
 By the Audience 
 
 Led by the 
 
 Boys' and Girls' 
 
 Glee Clubs 
 
 of the 
 
 Hartford Public 
 
 High School 
 
 Ralph L. Baldwin 
 Musical Director 
 
 A Message from the 
 State of Connecticut 
 
 INVOCATION 
 
 Reverend Rockwell Harmon Potter, D. D. 
 
 Minister of the First Church of Christ 
 in Hartford, Organized 1632 
 
 FOREFATHER'S HYMN 
 
 Tune, Duke Street 
 
 O God, beneath Thy guiding hand, 
 
 Our exiled fathers crossed the sea ; 
 And when they trod the wintry strand, 
 
 With prayer and psalm they worshipped Thee. 
 
 Thou heard'st, well pleased, the song, the prayer: 
 Thy blessing came; and still its power 
 
 Shall onward, through all ages, bear 
 The memory of that holy hour. 
 
 Laws, freedom, truth, and faith in God 
 Came with those exiles o'er the waves; 
 
 And where their pilgrim feet have trod 
 The God they trusted guards their graves. 
 
 And here Thy name, O God of Love, 
 Their children's children shall adore. 
 
 Till these eternal hills remove 
 
 And spring adorns the earth no more. 
 
 — Leonard B.\coN. 1833. 
 
 "A PUBLIC LETTER FROM THE STATE OF 
 CONNECTICUT 
 
 TO THE CHILDREN OF HER SCHOOLS " 
 
 Read by 
 
 Miss Clara M. Coe 
 
A group of Melodies 
 
 from the 
 
 Pilgrim Psalm Book 
 
 Sung by the 
 
 Glee Clubs 
 
 EXPLANATORY STATEMENT 
 
 BY 
 
 Professor Waldo S. Pratt, Mus. D. 
 
 'BOW DOWN THINE EAR" 
 
 From Psalm 86 
 
 Bow down Thine ear, Jehovah, answer me, 
 
 For I am poor, afflicted and needy. 
 Keep Thou my soul, for merciful am I ; 
 
 My God, Thy servant save, that trusts in Thee. 
 
 Jehovah, be Thou gracious to me. 
 For all the day call unto Thee do I. 
 
 Thy servant's soul rejoice Thou cheerfully. 
 For, Lord, I lift my soul up unto Thee. 
 
 'BY BABEL'S RIVERS, 
 
 From Psalm 137 
 
 By Babel's rivers, there sat we. 
 
 Yea, wept, when we did mind Sion. 
 The willows that amidst it be 
 
 Our harps we hanged them upon. 
 For songs of us there ask did they 
 
 That had us captive led along. 
 And mirth, they that us heaps did lay 
 
 "Sing unto us some Sion's song! " 
 
 Jehovah's song how sing shall we 
 
 Within a foreign people's land? 
 Jerusalem, if 1 do thee 
 
 Forget, forget let my right hand! 
 Cleave let my tongue to my palate. 
 
 If I do not in mind thee bear. 
 If I Jerusalem do not 
 
 Above my chief est joy prefer I 
 
 'CONFESS JEHOVAH, 
 
 From Psalm 136 
 
 Confess Jehovah thankfully, 
 For He is good, for His mercy 
 
 Continueth for ever. 
 To God of gods confess do ye, 
 Because His bountiful mercy 
 
 Continueth for ever. 
 Unto the Lord of lords confess. 
 Because His merciful kindness 
 
 Continueth for ever. 
 To Him that doth Himself only 
 Things wondrous great, for His mercy 
 
 Continueth for ever. 
 
 Which in our base state minded us. 
 Because His mercy gracious 
 
 Continueth for ever. 
 And from our foes did us release, 
 Because His merciful kindness 
 
 Continueth for ever. 
 Which giveth food unto all flesh, 
 Because His merciful kindness 
 
 Continueth for ever. 
 To God of heavens confess do ye, 
 Because His bountiful mercy 
 
 Continueth for ever. 
 
Reading of 
 
 THE PILGRIM COMPACT 
 By 
 
 Colonel Charles Edward Thompson 
 
 Governor 
 (Connecticut Society of Mayflower Descendants 
 
 All Sing 
 
 'AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL" 
 
 To the Tune of Materna 
 
 O beautiful for spacious skies, 
 
 For amber waves of grain, 
 For purple mountain majesties, 
 
 Above the fruited plain; 
 America! America! 
 
 God shed His grace on thee. 
 And crown thy good with brotherhood. 
 
 From sea to shining sea. 
 
 O beautiful for pilgrim feet, 
 
 Whose stern, impassioned stress 
 A thoroughfare for freedom beat 
 
 Across the wilderness; 
 America ! America ! 
 
 God mend thine every flaw. 
 Confirm thy soul in self-control, 
 
 Thy liberty in law. 
 
 O beautiful for glory-tale 
 
 Of liberating strife. 
 When valiantly, for man's avail. 
 
 Men lavished precious life; 
 America! America! 
 
 May God thy gold refine, 
 Till all success be nobleness, 
 
 And every gain divine. 
 
 O beautiful for patriot dream 
 
 That sees beyond the years. 
 Thine alabaster cities gleam, 
 
 Undimmed by human tears; 
 America! America! 
 
 God shed His grace on Thee, 
 And crown thy good with brotherhood. 
 
 From sea to shining sea. 
 
 — Katherine Lee Bates. 1904. 
 
Address by Provost Williston Walker, Ph. D., D. D., L. H. D. 
 
 of Yale University 
 
 "WHY WE HONOR THE PILGRIMS" 
 
 Singing 
 
 by the 
 
 Boys' and Girls' 
 
 Glee Clubs 
 
 (a) "THE VOYAGE OF THE MAYFLOWER' 
 
 Out across the broad blue ocean, 
 
 Daring wind and wave, 
 In their hearts a firm devotion, 
 
 Sailed the Pilgrims brave. 
 
 Calm or tempest might betide them 
 
 Still with purpose grand 
 Fared they on with faith to guide them 
 
 To their chosen land. 
 
 On and on the Mayflower plowing 
 Through the trackless deep, 
 
 Bore the ones with fervor vowing 
 Heaven" s pledge to keep. 
 
 Through the lonely sea that held it 
 
 In its mighty scope. 
 Strove that ship while truth impelled it 
 
 Toward the land of hope. 
 
 With their valor tried and tested, 
 
 Their long voyage o'er. 
 Home at last the Pilgrims rested 
 
 On a new found shore. 
 
 There they toiled with faith undaunted 
 
 And with purpose high, 
 And in their splendid zeal they planted 
 
 Truth that shall not die. 
 
 — Nixon Waterman. 
 
 (6) "LAND OF OUR HEARTS" 
 
 Land of our hearts, upon whose bounteous breast 
 Earth's weary sons from many lands find rest. 
 Bind us in love, that we may truly be 
 One blood, one nation, everlastingly. 
 
 — John Hall Ingham. 
 
All Sing 
 
 "AMERICA" 
 
 My country! 'tis of thcc. 
 Sweet land of liberty. 
 
 Of thcc I sing; 
 Land where my fathers died, 
 Land of the Pilgrims' pride, 
 From every mountain side 
 
 Let freedom ring! 
 
 My native country, thee, 
 Land of the noble, free. 
 
 Thy name I love; 
 I love thy rocks and rills, 
 Thy woods and templed hills. 
 My heart with rapture thrills 
 
 Like that above. 
 
 Let music swell the breeze. 
 And ring from all the trees 
 
 Sweet freedom's song : 
 Let mortal tongues awake. 
 Let all that breathe partake. 
 Let rocks their silence break. 
 
 The sound prolong. 
 
 Our fathers' God, to Thee, 
 Author of liberty, 
 
 To Thee we sing: 
 Long may our land be bright 
 With freedom's holy light; 
 Protect us by Thy might. 
 
 Great God, our King. 
 
 — S.F.Smith. 1832. 
 
 BENEDICTION 
 
 By the 
 
 Right Reverend Chauncey Bunce Brewster, D.D. 
 
 Appreciation is extended to 
 Messrs. Gallup & Alfred for 
 the use of the Mason and 
 Hamlin Piano. 
 
LiBRftRY OF CONGRESS 
 
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