New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-08

ROGER WILLIAMS The Pioneer - Religious
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two m,n WIZ wer" e'n" - London tal'rS W."
r.u1wn ln Oh" 'm"s ~ th' Restoration. h''" "','
university mon. but there the c''H''r's'" nus
between samuel P''yf and Roger N'!lilinS. Inc
industrious naval oh.lal w.'h bis proponfites Tor
tif.-nu.t.., and 'sr snowy garments has leit
f..- mark hut % PEI ~, il1rk ~ an absorbing frl-
e.,r... AID n i.lnll..s conctit. Williams. recall
..--, from lIs cradle SD o. speak, has let In the
,9-ii ,ie lrrr..r ~ O. r.,n who lived almost wholly
~ others II Be- eourht freedom. 70 was not for
himself h.ii for an mru. b. made friends among
people of rank but 10 was not hy adapting himself
:. th.l- r,noIs and Initiating their manners u
would be IMPOSSIBLE % think ~ him as sitting down
,y.. f., hi. youth 20 re'.te go q diary how he hal
boon greeted on various occasions hy Sir Edward
Ci.. AMI cnumerat.ne all %, Nttle auxieies which
thar great lawyers frDVn might haYc inflicted upon
h.m Hls was too marked AN individuality TO have
observed such ir.nes Nevertheless his career is
no. without aspects That puz@'" inc INVESTIGATOR
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cary Ho''Ih period c"uH De properly am NOR
o"shly understood 1t might be discovered that the
doctrine OF soul-liherty IN It's most perfect form
WAS FAMILIAR To many obscure and prosecuted Great
nrrs long before It emerged with Roger Williams
into the lght Of learning. Remember how Lu'hcrs
Reformation ran away from Luther how Protos-
thntlsm overpowerrd the tyrannical Henry and the
potent Elizabeth. how the cry Tor freedom
more than even Cromwell could endure and it will
not bee difficult to imagine that deep in the hearts OF
the masses there was a knowledge In these matters
uansccnding all the teachings OF the schools aud
al the activities Of the great The innumcrable
outcroppngs Of heresy and unhclicf I'm every case
where they were not Ike the sccptcisfn OF Fredcr-
lex Barbarossa. the mere amusement Of some pow
crful parsonage, involved n demand for liberty II
is possible that even in such case as Fredcrlcks
the uubclicf met a wider sympathy than one sus-
poets. Witness his Immortality in popular tradl-