SPEECH OF

REV. GEORGE DURYEE HULST, D. D.
 

Mr. President, and Brethren of The Holland Society :
 

HERE is but one subject upon which
to speak to-night—Holland, in the
glory of her many-sided greatness;
a greatness which we, her children,
in the ardor of our love, can hardly
exaggerate, and which we can have
no nobler ambition than to know and appreciate.
I do not exactly see how I am to speak upon this
subject, in view of the one placed before my name
upon the progi'amme. A brother in the ministry,
seeing one of his deacons arise in prayer-meeting
to make the accustomed prosy speech, endeavored to
avoid the inevitable by saying, " Brother Van Am¬
sterdam, wiU you please lead us in prayer?" The
good brother stood a moment, and then said, " I was
about to make a few remarks, but perhaps I can
throw them into the form of a prayer." I may, per¬
haps, be able to teU what I would have said had my
subject given me any sort of an opportunity.