The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-03-09

'''O' "0'o US ulu IN New England, II was
not owipR TO the moderation OF tho Church or
spirit oil tho Legislature. but to historical neci-
dents which have not been registered. DR.
Spencer does not aludc to nny of these s,ntu,.s
although he has much to say about the orpres-
slVe action OF Puritan commonwealtha N,ith,r
does ne note remarkable law enacted by the
maryland Legislature after tho Anglican Church
mao oeen established In that province. to the Of
iect That any Unitarian who should avow tho
cardinal tenet OF his faith should. for the first
offence. be bored through the tongue. for tina
second be branded with hot iron on the Tore
mead and Tor the third offence be put to death
Is true enough. however. that the efforts OF
the Anglican Clergy to make some converts i'm
'ne New England plantations met with grevous
distractions which were really tantamount to
persecution although the shrewd theocrats OF
Massachusetts Bay were cautious not to in
fringe the letter Of the law or to visit the same
hnrshnoss on aohurch identified with tho parent
state which they metcd out to unprotected SEQ
tariee. In a letter dated 1880. when a large body
oil Furltans wero embarkinR from England,
there Is an astute. Derfunctory clause which we
can Imagine the writer rehearsing with grim
twist OF the thin lips. TO wit. We esteem IL IN
honor to call the Church OF England whence we
rise, our dear mother. ever acknowledging that
such hope and part rs we have obtained In the
common salvation. we have received In her
bosom and sucked 1t from her breasts" Cor
tainly there was strange and painful disre-
gard OF the plain meaning OF these words in tho
intolerance straightway practised in its most
vengeiul form by the same men and their sue
cessors No doubt they had suffered M they
averrcd. bitter wrong at tho hands OF the Lord
| bishops" who gave no heed to their own con-
scientious scruples. but when the power fell into
their hands they looked to II that no man. wo-
man. or child within their boundaries should
hold any opinion which they. the lord breth-
rem OF New England. did not approve. God
| forbid" said they. through the mouth OF Gov
Endicott. that our love OF truth should be- 80
cold that we should tolerate errors" where
upon convicted Anabaptists were Whipped
numerically" and Quakers were subjected to
mutiauon or death. until Charles H. by a per-
omptory order. forbade further outrage of this
kind. Under these circumstances their dear
mother. the Church OF England" could not be
expected to mako much progress in the Puritan
commemorative and II is n fact to DO noted that
for well nigh sixty years after the landing on
| Plymouth Rock there was not n single Episcopal
Church between Cape Cod and the Merrimac
1t was not indeed. until the year 1879 that
| Charles H.. n. the earnest solicitation Of the
Bshop OF London, caused A church TO be built
in Boston. which William Of Orange subse-
| qucntly endowed with an annual bounty Of a
hundred pounds This church. We need not
say. was then and Is still known MS tho Kings
Chapel although IL passed long AGO ont NJ
Episcopal hands.
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the more thinly settled plantations lying to the
northeast Of the Merrimac River In what were
| known as the Gorges and Rigby grants. for in
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| Dos,on arc som,.,iw.- o,'sor,ar - 49,. 49,
! dwellers hy the Kenneboo md tho Pen"hscn,
| that tn. ancestors OF tina latter were onca on
titled to pronounce the Puritan burg A nest ~
Dissenters. and 10 view II with some,hinc like
the same contemp,uous nntinathv with which
members OF the Anglican communion in the
mother country survey a Wesleyan chapel. Nor
should IL be overlooked that the Established
Church gained n footing within the presentIim
its u New HAMPSHIRE after the settlements under
the Mason grant were embodied inRroyal prov-
ince. And in general il may be said that. in pro-
portion as charter or proprietary rights
were disulaced by the direct government Of the
! Crown-a process which may be roughly af
| 1rm.d 10 be complete AT the close Of the seven
teepth century-the INTRODUCTION and ndyance-
n,ent Of the Anglican Church WAS actively
| furtberel by the civil mower. Thus M New
| York. in 1907. Lord Cornbury issued IN order
| for tho arrest OF two Presbyterian preacbers
for that they have gone into Long Island with
| intent there to spread their pernicious Doctrine
and PRINCIPLES to the great disturbance OF the
| clur.h hy law established" Under this war
rant both ministers were inprisoned nearly two
months before being admitied 10 hail. On the
| other hand So rosolule ana unconpromisinp
WAS the Northumberland In Connootlout tnoteven
! Sir Edmund Andres when he assumed the gov
errn,ent of tbot nrovince In violation If ia char