body believe so in our days grandfather asked possibly there are some who believe it said grandfather but they have not so much power to act upon their belief as the and ministers had in the days of they had the power to deprive this good man of his home and to send him out from the midst of them in search of a new place of rest he was banished in and went first to colony but as the people there held the same opinions as those of he was not suffered to remain among them however the wilderness was wide enough so took his staff and travelled into the forest and made with the indians and began a plantation which he called providence i have been to providence on the railroad said it is but a two hours ride yes replied grandfather but by ic s chair when travelled thither over hills and valleys and through the tangled woods and across and streams it was a journey of several days well his little plantation is now grown to be a city and the inhabitants have a great veneration for his name is familiar in the mouths of all because they see it on their bank bills how it would have perplexed this good clergyman if he had been told that he should give his name to the bank when he was driven from said and began his journey into the woods he must have felt as if he were burying himself forever from the sight and knowledge of men yet the whole has now heard of him and will remember him forever yes answered grandfather it often happens that the of one generation are those who are as the wisest and best of men by the next the fame is that which comes after a man s death but let us return to our story when was banished he appears to have given the chair to mrs anne at all events it was in her possession in she was a very sharp and well instructed lady and was so conscious of her own wisdom and abilities that she thought it a pity that the world should not have the benefit of them she therefore by ic grandfather s used to hold lectures in boston once or twice a week at which most of the women attended mrs presided at meetings sitting with great state and dignity in grandfather s chair grandfather was it positively this very chair demanded laying her hand upon its carved elbow why not my dear said grandfather well mrs s lectures soon caused a great disturbance for the ministers of boston did not think it safe and proper that a woman should publicly instruct the people in religious doctrines moreover she made the matter worse by declaring that the rev mr cotton was the only sincerely pious and holy clergyman in new england now the clergy of those days had quite as much share in the government of the country though indirectly as the themselves so you may imagine what a host of powerful enemies were raised up against mrs a was that is to say an assemblage of all the ministers in they declared that there were opinions on religious subjects diffused among the people and that mrs s opinions were of the number if they had eighty two wrong opinions observed i don t see how they could have any right ones by ic s chair mrs had many zealous friends and continued grandfather she was favored by young henry who had come over from england a year or two before and had since been chosen governor of the colony at the age of twenty four but and most of the other leading men as well as the ministers felt an of her doctrines thus two opposite parties were formed and so fierce were the that it was feared the consequence would be civil war and but and the ministers being the most powerful they and imprisoned mrs s she like was banished dear grandfather did they drive the poor woman into the woods exclaimed little who contrived to feel a human interest even in these of divinity they did my darling replied grandfather and the end of her life was so sad you must not hear it at her departure it appears from the best authorities that she gave the great chair to her friend henry he was a young man of wonderful talents and great learning who had the religious opinions of the and left england with the intention of spending his life in the people chose him governor but the about mrs and other troubles caused him to by ic s chair leave the country in you may read the subsequent events of his life in the history of yes grandfather cried and we may read them better in mr s biography of and what a beautiful death he died long afterwards beautiful though it was on a many of the most beautiful deaths have been there said grandfather the enemies of a great and good man can in no other way make him so glorious as by giving him the crown of in order that the children might fully understand the all important history of the chair grandfather now thought fit to speak of the progress that was ma e in settling several colonies the settlement of in has already been mentioned in mr and mr stone two ministers went on foot from to through the woods taking their whole congregation along with them they founded the town of in mr a very celebrated minister went with other people and began a plantation at new haven in the same year some persons who had been persecuted in went to the isle of since called island and settled there about this time also many had gone to and were by ic grandfather s chair living without any regular government 