Show the the tho pilgrims and the puritans as i I 1 the providence R 1 I journal daem drew s a distinct line between the forefathers of new england saying in reality however the pilgrims who settled at plymouth were very different people from the puritans who eight or ten years later came to salem and boston and subsequently spread themselves over what abt they called new england so different were they that the two would not have crossed the ocean in the thi e same ships or dwelt together in the aanie same settlements the pilgrims grims were b by far the meeker and more self denying people the they had much less lofty notions of their mission in the new world they had separated themselves from the english church for conscience sake and had ceased to be members of it they were not grasping or domineering in the exercise of power they had gone to holland hollan d because in that thai age they could not live in england without being persecuted aa w they came camo to america in fix order that they might be in english territory and within the general protection 0 of english power and anck that they maintain their own worship and institutions without bein being drifted mixed with foreigners as they haa had been in holland they had no thought of using the civil sword in religion reli rell giom glom ious ioui matters the puritans on the contrary when they left england england 1 were still members of the anali anglican ca n church although they had long desired and struggled to promote a more complete reformation of its worship and institutions they disliked prelacy because bucauto they h had ad suffered from irom it they disliked ceremonial worship because a portion of it bad come from the church of rome and through that church from the pagan mythology of earlier ages but before leaving england they had by no means become either con creation alist nilst sor or presbyterians rians th they were simply a party in the tho established church that had bad been persecuted to the limit of endurance by the ecclesiastical and civil tyranny of their opponents they still retained anglican notions both of the church and state and of the relations between them they had bad not advanced a step beyond the anglican idea of religious freedom and did not believe in the essential of the human soul the they lad bad not determined before beforehand baa baZ ireci sely what religious they should establish in their colony and it is evident that in boine some important particulars they burdee their ecclesiastical ideas rom the pilgrims who preceded them and who were far simpler and more charitable in their sentiments and beliefs neither of them nhem ahem thought that the church and the state could exist separate from each other but the pilgrims were much nearer this idea than their more arrogant neighbors and rivals who settled on the shores of massachusetts achu bay and became the masters of new england it should not be forgotten however that the mag Map mayflower flower and plymouth rock and the of decem i ber her belong exclusively to the pilgrims the name of puritan unless it be in in a very qualified sense sens is not to be used in connection with these forefathers day das as we call it had nothing to do with boston and shalem and cap cape anne but only with the I 1 bieak bleak leal leai shore that stretches from roxbury to C ap cod clod that alone is tl tiie tile 10 country 0 the pilgrims that was the of bradford and Q carver arv erand and brewster and miles standish Standi Stan dish diah bh the fhe first forefathers of new england to use uye the day of their landing for eulogizing log izing governor endicott and governor winthrop or the puritans of massachusetts bay is just as much a perversion as it would be to devote it to the first planters of rhode island or of tt 3 on the same subject the new york journal of commerce here is the beginning 11 of a feud which may require endless new en england land laud dinners to com compose I 1 poe vice president alien allen of the rhode island historical society at a late meeting declared his opinion that the type of character shown by the pilgrims pilgrim s of the plymouth colony was far nobler and broader that exhibited by the puritans massachusetts bay 1 |