Eleventh Annual Meeting and Banquet of the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society
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Excerpt from Eleventh Annual Meeting and Banquet of the Pennsylvania Scotch-Irish Society: At the Hotel Stratford, Philadelphia, February 8th, 1900 Toward the close of the Dinner Mr. James Pollock, the President, arose and spoke as follows: - Gentleman of the Society: - We have reached that point in our annual celebration where the President is expected to make a speech; but I want to say at the outset that it is not my purpose to do so. We have so much material here tonight that we intend to use, that I am sure you do not want to hear from me. I feel, anyway, that I have had no special fitness for this high office, but being the machine candidate for President, and having had the vote set up for me by such good politicians as Colonel McClure and Judge Porter, I was left no recourse but to accept the responsibilities of the office. It is true, I have had the advantage of having been born in Ulster about fifty-three years ago. (Laughter.) I had the additional advantage of having been brought to Kensington, that old Scotch-Irish industrial centre, where we had at least six Psalm-singing Presbyterian churches. The principal text books of my father´s library were the Bible, with references and commentaries, the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Catechism, Larger and Shorter, with proofs (laughter), Fisher´s and Flavel´s Catechism. These, of course, were expected to be committed to memory. We had, in addition to these, other books, such as "Edwards on Redemption," and they were all teeming with Scottish theology. It was only after my father´s death that I dared believe that a man who sang anything in the public worship other than the one hundred and fifty Psalms, that were all inspired and set apart by the Kirk of Scotland, would have any earthly chance here or hereafter. It was years after that that I developed into a Presbyterian of the modem school, who believes that perhaps there may be a mansion in the sky somewhere for a man who docs not take his theology from the moors of Scotland or the bogs of Ireland. Now, in addition to those books, I was expected to read the periodicals of the Church - The Banner of the Covenant and the Reformed Presbyterian Advocate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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