New-York tribune., 1896-12-05
"tNNE HUTCHINSON"
MISS BEASTON GIVES HER LISTENERS
GLIMPSE OF THE SOMBRE SIDE
OF PURITAN LIFE

tyere,ofore Miss Bcasion has dealt with tn"
or,is,,c and poetic side OF Puritan life in her Fri
day afternoon lectures Al tie home OF Mrs. jacob
Hoes but Yesterday she gave her audience
GLIMPSE Of its dark and sombrc side. The subject
was Anne Hutchinson" and TO understand her
e,orv properlv Miss BeastOn said. she must u" se'
,n tho Boston Of her time. with its narrow streets
,r which theological bitterness and narrowneSs
were pcnt up: iis frame houses and its 80" hard-
working inh lbnants. who had nothing In the world
70 occupy thc.- minds outside OF working hours
but religion.
Anne's house stood al the corner Of Washington
a,d School sis where the corner bookstore no"
q, 7, had 4 large old-fashioncd dra wing room. In
yhich tho frs, lecture by ar American woman was
d.,,vorod This woman Mics Beasions an
ces,or and In meiaphorica sens" may u" con
siderel the foremother OF the hundreds Of Ame:-
ican women who now maintain themselves ]" '"'-
'T all came about I'm this way said MISS b"as-
ton There were always number OF people III
,.o tow, who were unable get 20 church on
SUNDAYS and for their benefit Anne began 10 Civ
lltile Wednesday evening talks on Whatever SUD
,ects the ministers had treated In their SUNDAY ser
mons This was very harmless. certainly, ana ""
,ould M oha hly never have heard Of II II Ann" mad
contented herself with simply repeating the words
q, ,hese good men But instead OF that. sh" tore
their sermons 10 pieces ard when. IN accordance
with the custom Of that time they spok" OF th'"-
selves as worms OF dust. unworthy to ~ahd
before God or man. she expressed her entire agree
inert with them.
Narrower she considered herself competent 70
decide whether o. not a particular preacher resi'>l
under tho coyanan, Of grace the covenant OF
works Sh. didn't know how she knew hut II was
ne,errheoss q fact. she asserted. nat ms soon n
she laid her eyes a minister sh' coulu I"''
him under the proper category and inc hoStoN
cI.rey-she had no manner Of doubt-w"r' under
he exceptions
John Cotton and John Wheelwright Finally she
declared that the spiri, OF God was upon h"r' ana
this Was too much for n" minister's for II @ @tn"r
thought II ought to be given 10 MN
.sThe lectures naturally created gr@a, s"nr'. %
ton and have toen oiled 'ih' event oi 'h' NJ NJ
tos,on social season Tn audicrces grew rapidf.
and where M FIRST on.y women had attended rl.'
men beean TO come IN crowds Ih"N LEY 80,
hing for the SAX. Of hearing Anne Hutchinson.
and She was more resorted 20 for counsel IMAM ""'
All the ministers put together , s,,.o of
I'm a thcocracy like Boston such state "i
AFFAIRS as this manif"stly would not 90 me MN mn
isters who were magistrates as well as priests.
be,d nc-..inr after meeting hut IT was difficult to
decide what TO DO. for the onenH'r wa ~oSS
pooular woman. noted for her cl-HfltN ana anu @ t"o''
orLs A, last on November ;. lG.,. she was sum
,noneJ 70 appear in Cambridge church before
oD.r The o' cnnnry Governor Winthrop. whom w.
have ALREADY known - the t.nder % ,oV"' oi hou y"
bar no mercv for II was not thing tolerabe. IN
his opinion, comely in the -lgnt 9l '9n. % rn nT,
woman 10 spe X in public or 10 crltlcisc we ,n,
,nra / am glad TO be able to add. however; INA
wh.u Anne brought nb loi uihl 'b"''
snrine he redeemed himself TO c"riai;. extent To-
when ne saw now pale and ~ sh" looked ne san,
mat she must sit down ana ~ EaN" h'' s'"' ~
wafer. Am. vsaa
communicated which meant In those days tha' sur
vvas mad. "A social parlah. Sh" 100" r'lus',: WI,
her husband-who stood by her 'hfouei a., a.,
her ,rials-on an island I'm Narraganstti Haf nul
"a az driven from IL in few years by IN" htnSHi'n
y, ,ha poston ministers. Then she came 10 fi"ii
eo.n a,d vse no sooner settled there than she wa'
,nten on, If This Evil world The Indians descend
ed upon the family ana an pu' one ''''
scalped and massacred.