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Historical addresses, poem, and other exercises at the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Rehoboth, Mass., held October 3, 1894 - Tapa blanda
Sinopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...simple vote of Rehoboth passed Dec. 9, 1657, " That Sampson Mason have free liberty to sojourn with us." The language is suggestive and significant, and truth compels me to admit that my ancestor was at that time deemed unworthy of citizenship in the colony of Massachusetts. He was an adjudged heretic under sentence of banishment. He came to you a homeless exile, and you gave him free liberty to sojourn with you. Those of his faith who had preceded him in Rehoboth had not proved altogether peacemakers, but the broad spirit of tolerance which had charactized the settlement was not exhausted, and it cheerfully bore this further test. Seven years before the sturdy soldier fresh from service in the parliamentary army under Fairfax, had settled in Dorchester. Macaulay in that scathing paragraph upon the days which followed the restoration of Charles II, says, " The government has just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough to persecute." The colony of Massachusetts surely had more than this quantum of religion, but the rigid Puritan, earnest for freedom to live up to his own religious convictions, was not as ready to accord the same freedom to others as was the separatist Pilgrim of the earlier colony. Narrow formulas of doctrine were inadequate to the spiritual thirst of the scholarly Newman. He sought less restricted means of reaching infinite stores of truth in the Divine Word. He saw in his experience a likeness to that of Isaac when his herdsmen strove with those of Gerar over successive wells insufficient for the natural thirst of animals, until a well was digged equal to the needs of all "And for that they strove not, and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, for now the Lord hath made room for us, and we sh...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...simple vote of Rehoboth passed Dec. 9, 1657, " That Sampson Mason have free liberty to sojourn with us." The language is suggestive and significant, and truth compels me to admit that my ancestor was at that time deemed unworthy of citizenship in the colony of Massachusetts. He was an adjudged heretic under sentence of banishment. He came to you a homeless exile, and you gave him free liberty to sojourn with you. Those of his faith who had preceded him in Rehoboth had not proved altogether peacemakers, but the broad spirit of tolerance which had charactized the settlement was not exhausted, and it cheerfully bore this further test. Seven years before the sturdy soldier fresh from service in the parliamentary army under Fairfax, had settled in Dorchester. Macaulay in that scathing paragraph upon the days which followed the restoration of Charles II, says, " The government has just ability enough to deceive, and just religion enough to persecute." The colony of Massachusetts surely had more than this quantum of religion, but the rigid Puritan, earnest for freedom to live up to his own religious convictions, was not as ready to accord the same freedom to others as was the separatist Pilgrim of the earlier colony. Narrow formulas of doctrine were inadequate to the spiritual thirst of the scholarly Newman. He sought less restricted means of reaching infinite stores of truth in the Divine Word. He saw in his experience a likeness to that of Isaac when his herdsmen strove with those of Gerar over successive wells insufficient for the natural thirst of animals, until a well was digged equal to the needs of all "And for that they strove not, and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, for now the Lord hath made room for us, and we sh...
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