Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-11-06

The following is an extract from work enti-
tied - Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth,
1920 The work is by Rev. DR.. Cheeyer of
New York:
That island is a very sacred spot We would
put monument there sooner than on Bunker
Hill-a monument to God, to the Sabbath. to
the faith of the Pilgrims, to the hidden life of
social civil, and religious freedom Of which the
Sabbath is the safeguard. A monument there
where, spiritually, the first battle was fought
and the first victory gained on this North West
ern Continent against the powers Of darkness,
against spiritual wickedness, in the high places
Of earth and Of the soul.
Verify, if We may suppose the enemy Of God
and man looking on and watching that move
ment, that sabbath work, that Sabbath's re-
weren't and submissive stiffness. and prayer, and
praise (and why may we not for not alone in
civilized Europe was the god of this world su-
preme and busy, but here, from one end Ofthe
continent to the other, IN savage rites he and his
worship > if We may suppose the enemy Of
mankind gazing when that island was first trod-
den by the Pilgrim feet, awe-stricken would he
and his hosts have beheld the solemn employ
ment Of that day
1t was a most wonderful conservation Of all
view LuEAllll tobDAs lAA5 IEAl-4Nus httNlllZ Dl
the first Sabbath day spent upon its shores,
amid such storm, such fear, such heart-chiling
cold and friehtful desolation We should ike
to see a granite monument on that island, and
the words inscribed on it, The First Sabbath of
the Pilgrims. We say again, greater battle
was fought and gained there than that on Bunk
cr Hill, and a foundation Of spiritual freedom
laid there without which that last battle for
civil rights never had been fought nor the iusti-
tutions Of freedom in this country established.
That Sabbath contained the prediction and as
surance Of success % the infant colony
1, was God who kept the pilgrims through
their Sabbath-keeping piety. They may sueer
who please ~ the strictuess Of the Puritan Sab
bath should its spirit die out Of our land there
might be French tckleness and infdelity, and
political corruption remaining, but the old
fashioned, social, civil, and religious virtue anl
happiness Of New England would be no more.
How many 4 iescenient Of the Pilgrims, uu-
der the pressure Of q much less necessity, has
put the claims Of conscience beneath those of
e1pediency, and msde the demands u Gods in
sfitution to wait upon mans convenience
None 90 be affected by their example, And
Whist one movement or act Of those Pilgrims or
sentiment, or opinion, or coloring Of life, that
will not exert an influence o. the latest genera
tlu lheE so actrI I'D t4l- matter ~ keeping
the Sabbath thst the world might initiate them
That LAY, kept for God on that island has sent
down q blessing for all the pasterlty of the
PilEr.ms-those costly prayers and praises-a
preserving. sustaining influence throughout
New Engiani 20 make the descendants Of the
Pilgrims a Sabbath-keepiug people and none
but Sadbath-keeping people can be truly free
The above furnishes complete answer to a
pamphlet issuei by the '' Parker fraternity
attacking the Christian Sabbath.