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Identifier: oldnewenglandchu00bacouoft (find matches)
Title: Old New England churches and their children
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Bacon, Mary Schell (Hoke), 1870-
Subjects: New England -- Church history
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ans had.Until then all the action had been in Englandand taken by the Established Church; the re-action now felt in America and by the Estab-lished Church indicated a vindictiveness whichwas deplorable but perhaps the most humanthing in Puritanism. The real objection to thisstate of Puritan affairs is that too much was laidto the Lord. Vengeance is mine!—the Puri-tans considered themselves the instrument andwere glad to be chosen for the work. In preachingof God as a God of vengeance and withoutmercy, they simply adapted their Deity to theirown inclinations. The missionary church sought a pied a terrein the New World which it might call its own,but this was for a long time denied it. Andros,the execrated, was the Church of Englandssaviour at that time, and partly as a consequencehe is needlessly misrepresented to the schoolboyof to-day. One hundred years after it becomespossible to regard any occurrence that couldpossibly have taken place, without prejudice,though not unemotionally.
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Kings Chapel, Boston, Mass. 51 In the days when events moved slowly, theworld may have needed a thousand years in whichto weigh and forgive offences; but to-day a hun-dred years can make and unmake nations. Acity may be wiped out to-day and to-morrow beregarded tranquilly as ancient history. A newworld blossoms in a desert and next week we haveceased to be surprised. A hundred years shouldhave been time enough for Americans who havecrowded several centuries into one, to think uponthe conditions of two hundred and fifty years agojudiciously and without prejudice; to weighmen and events with great precision, in thebalance with American emotions. But this hasnot been done; or if it has it is time for school-board energy to censor the text-book list andexpunge from it those treatises bound to offendthe fair-minded. Eugene Sue says somewhere, that the man wholacks enthusiasm is fit for treasons, stratagems,and spoils—of course not using Shakespearianphrase. Even French energy has hardly

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