Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1875-03-05


TO folsow lie history OF the Pdtilas|
organisation, and the workings Of their
govsumeutal machinery al down the
early years-she Hody poll ic. then .
now, no doubt having it, majority Of
: ,unaauctided" men-and attempt to dis
sect their public cots from the devotion
and purity If trit1ls life. ID hercaie.n
task. though fsf from snimpossibls one,
which we are not called upon to perform.
He Who runs may read. The par. iifs and
devotion Of the Pilgrim fathers is . fact
adorned in the history Of this country b,
poetry and song, dnd every ,rus American
points TO Il With pride. And not the
|. writer" only. - sail the Times, but the
us,ion Is crying ont for their severe v'r-
tue," regardless Of what, in after times
their body polite may have enacted
This .witchcyaft allus'oo serves only t.
throw dust In ITS readers eyes, 70 blina
them ~ the real issue.
But let the liberal preacher" answer.
At the celebration Of FOrefathers' Day
day when MANY Of the distinguished
men of the natipn assembled 10 do them
honor, Henry Ward Bescher said:
sPuritanism began in the Church O.
England, in the Reform Roman Church
and the term belonged to oil men who IN
sisted that there should be reformation
LOT morals, of manners. OF government
Of everything that pertained 70 humanity
;, '.Say the Puritsns represented tn
, best spirits among the nobility o.
!. England, the hest men of education VIII
cxisted during the time OF the first James
They were not the mesger, scrawny, igHO
lrsnt. vulgar mon caricature has repre-
scented :hem to be. They were the bes
,neu of all parties, and of two successive
. re,gns, and Of culture. of gentle manners
LOT purity of life, of the love Pf refine
n,ent, thst has seldom been eQualsd in th
!. Anglo-Saxon race.
" Now you must not confound the Pu
ritan with tile Pilgrim. We praise III
: Puri' aus; We have some right and title Il
them; but to night we don't celebrate III
Puritane; we are here to celebrate tn
:, landing 1t the Pilgrims. And who wer
: by. They were Puri,ans. tu' all Pur
=. ms were not Pilgrims. They have tn
same relation to Puritanlsm in Englan
that cream does to milk.
"Thev settled in Plymouth, and tn
I Colony of Plymouth maintained for
=. long time it's separatentss. mou'
:, was the colony where there never va
,,er.ecutmn nor witchcrxft, where. NOR
han anywhere else. freedom # CO,
" science. freedom of men under civil gov
" crnments. was not only preachest. b.
prsc,iced, and The leaven Of their feast'
l" heir enlarged ID more tolerant belief
went out afterwards into al the colony
For when the Massachusetts, Bay C"mp'
: ~ came over, they brough real and gel
. uine Puri,aps, but If different strip
y aud not yet advanced 10 that degree
y which the Pilgrims had been. And III
:. Pilgrims held the doctrine that any naa
y may worship God as he please and ih'
q every church 10 spiritua! union of me
brliev,ng themselves qualified by the il
, dwelling spirit to firm their own beliefs.
" The statement Of the Times was THU
> Had the church no, preached for Gel
=" Jury that d,c,rines constitute nine tentl
y If true religion and thai faith in wh'
!" neither man can understand ~ the churt
Y EXP lain is necessary To salvation, il. woul
y have less Of hercsy TO gr' an over" W
/" reiterate that it is not only ''absufd" b
I" untrue: and it can not bring out any I
!. the articles or creeds that are embOdis
II IN the e.aukeiicai churches OF tD-essy
: proof of II. They all draw theit incorp
." .a,ed truths from the scripture alone ~
~ poiut tO them rs containing the only inf
!, Ii lie rul. ard vi e To man.
- The means which the Tines takes
:" cure ''heresy" IS singular. To purge y
81 world of unbelief. destroy be ief. 1t Is
: f you should overcome traitors or 4
..pposers of the principles upon whi'
8 your government is founded, by blo'tii
T. out it's constitution. Verify, indeed.
rs YOU had no doctrines you would have n
e. ..heresey. But would the Times adyOca
IT, truth thus? out Of its own mouth nay! +
= in taking its present position it has alreat
." builded it's brcastwOrk Of doctrine
u True religion and undeflsd before Go
s. is to visit the widow and the orphan
'. their affection. and to keep ones self U
e spotted from the world.''
:" Its indeed true. ah,'ugh the merest Chi
e. has often caught the CLEAN It those 8
|cred mysteries which come by faith. tn
1.-The Church is often unable To expNi
and intelligent men, can not or d" mot .
ed dersiand 1t. Toe greatest teacher Z
" world has ever Known met with the eai
. ldifficnitx Having eArl they hear ~