New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-24

| these men with referebce to their htHess 30 col,
cizei New England. We end them 10 be Tsni'ng Il
no esseniisl quality bat on the CONTRARY, we loci
| upon them as a people raised up o. Coo q
| 60 good work. dnc 20 tam ihem - that hal
oestlhy by correspondent discipline We must a 1
nj. That as instruments for accomplishing the wOrl
se'oefOre them they were hardly Less than peteci
religious faith Tess intense an enthusiasm less Ell
aztec consisercy OF pnrpose ess firm, NOR,
hexiDle temper OF m,nd coud never have C ureC
tem through the penis and dificu ties that lay a sh'
path OF their enterprise For this the highest an
sircpsest OF worldly motives would have been f0uuC
wanting Neither PATRIOTISM nor assense OF honor
nor passion for gam or gory. nor i lore o
power could have borne the piercing experience,
OF TIE hrss five years OF the Plymouth Colony
when hunger is day after day gnaSlng at the
heaft OF msn-when winter IL beating upon them
Nth bis icy nail-xhen death is busy anon them
mat the few able bodied men can do no more than
purse the sick and bury the dead unaiied humanity
VIII sink and fall uncer the burden. The support
tDas ~iil enable men to bear up under the tremen-
dous pressure must be from Heaven and not from
EARN. Man must lay hold OF the land of God, an 1
crglng 70 hat lift himself above himself not mere
~ Casting aside his trials. but making them Instfu-
mental IN his own exstatioD. IL the elements were
SO mingled IN the Puritan fathers OF New. Eng
l9Io that they had every quality necessary 10 AZ
them for the enterprise they mad TO accomplish do
We not see that their previous discipline mad been
such as TO cali forth ali the power that
tai, and at the same time TO forbid the growth of
those che erful gTaces snd winning accomplishments
which they ere sometimes unthinklngly blamed for
Iot possessing tApplausel That they were not
me gentle men and eloquent scholars Is true. But
how could men acquire delicate learning or c0urtly
manners that had never breahed the air OF security
end had been obliged to steal their life away. with
the cry Of pursuit ever following them upoa the
WINDS that had never been hidden to good mems
feasts nor slept on tranquil pillows Poverty and
persecution, and exile formed the stern And strong
virtues which are the protection and defense OF com
nunIes as the storms of winter blow vigOr INTO the
pine snd the oak, whose raers he .n into forts,
and houses, and churches but the softer, gentler
grsces which embelsh prosperous condition Of
iIfe bloom beside the still waters and III gardens
sheltered from the sweeping blast Applause !
While we honor the element which belongs 70 the
Puritan fathers of w-EnglaId, we contend that
they should be tried by the standard OF their sn
age, and not by that Of ours We honor those who
are IN advance OF their times, but we have no nght
to blame those who are not Moral truth Is pro-
gIessiVe well as physical We do not cenSure the
Puri'sns for berg ignorant of vaccination or the ex
pansse power OF steam and the world at thu time
knew little about the doctrines Of liberation Even
Milton expressly excepis POpery from that wide
embracing federation which should embrace all
Protestant sects That the Puntans, who had fled
from persecution. should themselves porsecu!e IS A
seeming inconsistency which the laws of the human
mind easily explain. The PurltdBs from the be-
ginning were Of the stern and uncompromisins sort
In their judgment, not only were their own views OF
doctrine ard Church government true, out ali DINERS
weIe false. They could not live In the flowing
land OF their fathers, because they could not con-
sent 10 tolerate what they deemed error They had
nature of man, ard fed into the wilderness In order
found pure Church such as the pure eyes oil God
ght look upon with favor. aud they telt that they
bad an exclusive right 10 the privileges which they
had bought at so dear price They had made the
waste place as the garden Of the Lord, and they
could not endure that sly weeds OF error should
take root therein What had they gained If after all
their suferngs anu all they had renowned at nome
they to encounter here the false doctrines and
idclstrous practices which had made life inloera
Die. They held their own lives a. nothing when
weighed IN the balance against the truth, and II Ia
Cefense OF the truth they inflicted death they were
none the less ready TO meet ii. had sucn been the
will of Gcd Our age has outgrown the AK and
the faggot but Is the combination OF an earnest
faith and tolerant spirit so very common as 70 en-
title us 70 SIT III judgment upon tue intolerance 0ithe
past What We cali liberation is commonly only IN
difference. To have deep and feryid convictions Ia
politics or religion and 1t the same time TO respect
the intellectual rights OF Others who have conscien-
tousy come TO a different conclusion IS at this day
ore OF the r6rest and finest Of Unions Applause J
That the Pilgrim Fathers we're eminently men OF a
religious spirit cannot &c denied by any candid man
who places confidence IN their own recorded sst'c-
Tents written with perfect simplicity under cTcum-
sisDces, and al time, whent was impossible that
tbCy should have any purpose OF conceament or de-
ctpion IL their view. the ties and relations which
bound them 10 God were Of far more importance
, ," TSey We're psaetrstsd with Tie most *
via sense Of the real existence OF those th'ngs
ptom;ses Of an unseen world were ever bright
enfng or Gardening their faith. The smiles
asd fiowns o. God were both as visible as nose
which child sees On the face OF IFS earthly parent
Thor daily hfe IevOYed around poles OF spiritual
= atuiC rel g,Ous spirit IS Lot to be contour led
with religious creed II Ii quite possible for man
to asstn. sincerely to certain Articles Oh rehBous
itn end at n same tin lead very Irfellsious ne
A religious pint implies a constant guidance and
ftsit'ut of feelings and SIiTlt not flowing from re-
ntlous sfcCtoIs II rests IN the belief OF the doc
tne Of The sontneni, the existence OF the soul IN
al .afat 80 hAu
Ia:ly sin IL cfiensive. but religious opinions are
nOSfC rs tic progress which the mind makes In re
igiOn II 10 a flo wing ana not sss8nant fanh, ana
glGus Iey eaii0ns are not Ike the Stars, Oess u
Ceired IN night and csiknessS. Robinson, IN MS
IoieWeil Sermon TO his people. told them, Ia
rorJs which are as true a, this DAY as II they
ere SPOKEN foT US, that ne was very conhiens that
Tie Lord had more truth YET to brods OUT oil his hoy
word But religious Spslt is very esseutlaliy tue
sane lust as the true spirit OF scIeRt,nc Ia
quiry IN Richard Bacon, grop;pg IN the twlhghs oil
kBowieCge and II Humboldt waking ia lis neon.
day blaze. tt at TIE Pilgrim Fathers were governed
by proound religious spiTi fact quite lErcSpec-
tive U ii particular acts enc form IA whch tHd
xprt ssed hisory records no BODY oi men whose
hives we're more shaped and guidci 0y the relations
which exist bttween ted and tn human SOIL Is
no feure OF speech but liberal Truth TO Say that the
sloH OF GOD was he chief end OF their eKistencs,
md .hat.hey found perfect freedom ia eife SaonlIs-
non 60 his vIli. The power vaIch this religious
fpr. breatted the consistency II purpose when I.
ave tie FRA temper OF the sou, which II INFUSED
AN never be told by vague rhetoric OF ilnpsssioned
t,c an u or but can oLlt be let by hun VINO VIII
r. al the record Of their early experiences. made on
fe sUo' ard as simple as II II had been Os-DOoA 81
90 coastng vessel II tanned The rage OF hunger, u
broke the sting Of death, = was shield to the iim'd
a cofdiaI to tie sick hoIe to the responding, aHd
cttsClatlon C the feeble. applause
Wtiie vi Acknowledge with gratitude lne lHhu-
,uces of that religious sprii which belonged 10 the
Pilgrims as puplaBS. lol AS Lot forget the dsct OK
gratitude which We owe 70 those principles oil ciVlI
sud religious liberty which were their tnheft7nce
a. Ensishe FL To boIIo" lheIr Own quaint Ian
suaet Tht] had oecou wcaneo nom ioe oeIiC ave
nix o. then mother country VIXEN they had not os'
heir yigoT infused by the strong meat q, SSkoa
freedom which she bad gwen them to ear lhelf
trsirs we're not heated With Wild visions 81 lde d
cen NOW eaihs, sGd we're rot awakened i:to tu-
uulluous IsgtrItS - he liberty thty enjoyed pc
cause & only differed IA degree from that Mhlch laey
taO tIcWn a; home Persecution had not stamped
mOIe Cs1py Ia their hearts the principles OF ci'ii
ard rei,g US iibsry They hac sa, upon Jurit had
seer. t1r judicial sId executive functions OF tue
STATE tubocIe IN q constable aud JuSlce they
kIce tie importance Of these prord WORDS, Ihe
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