Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-02
For the Herald and Tribune.
JUDGE TEMPLES NEW BOOK.

1t is gratifying to have a new book
from a Tennessee author at any time,
but II the observance of our one hun.
dredth anniversary has walked the His.
toric muse, it is result of most sig.
nificant character.
THE CovENANTER, THE CAVALIER,
AND THE PURITAN, is a volume Just is.
sued from the press of Robert Clarke
Co., Cincinnati" by Oliver Perry Tenn
pie, for twelve years one of the Equity
Judges of Tennessee.
The title itself provokes attention
Two things always have been and al
ways will be intensely interesting
phases Of Government and Religion.
When the two appear together as a
racial factor the interest is still in.
creased. History, at bottom, is an &C.
count of ,great impulses and great
leaders. Governments concern the
world of today-Religion "the world
to come" Impulses and leaders that
have been powerful enough to organize
themselves into Faiths" or forms of
Government, are social forces, and the
story concerning them can not be told
too often. Epoch making impulses
stand out as mile stones in the path
way Of human progress. Especially
interesting are they, If the impulse has
been great enough to project itself into
the life of the centuries and to become
part of race heredity. capable of
being clearly estimated and pointed
out, though separated by seas, CONT
nents, differences of climate and coun-
try. The subject of History 80 treated
is worthy Of our profoundest attent tion.
When 1t goes even point further and
is shown to be part of our own life.
a thread of gold woven into the texture
OF our individual being, It surrounds
itself with personal interest.
Judge Temple il his book leads us
on such path. He starts out in Scot
land and ends in the noun tains of East
Tennessee; begins In the 10Th and 10th
centuries and brings down the story
to the door of the Goth, on threads that
make part Of our own life. Let every
body get the book aud throughly read
it. Knoxville is to be congratulated
on having citizen so public spirited,
as to give US volume of History, in
this Centennial period. 1t is keeping
step with the best traditions of the
Scotch-Irish people, to whom the book
is dedicated. We venture merely upon
a cursory outline Of its contents.
The origin of the Covenanters neces.
sarily comes first. Their religious,
educational and political character is
presented, partly described, partly sug.
gested. The "Scotch Kirk" looms up
in the front, beside the burly face of
John Knox. The New Faith" with
Geneva for back ground, with many
side lights, is set forth. The young,
beautiful "Queen Of the SCOTS, tragic
in her acting and in her ending, passes
in view, half winning the admiration
of Knox himself. "The Kirk" Judge
Temple declares, was Democratic in
spirit, following Christianity a religion
addressed to the poor. 1t did an i'm
mense work that still goes on. 1t
preached gospel the world was wait
ing for, and the masses of Scotland
readily embraced it, loved it, as If
made only for them.
Later, it passed into England; but q
Democratic impulse can never abide
under King, hence the fierceness of
the English Reformation, of which a
brief account is given.
In time, the Covenater arrived in the
New World, to be potent force in the
greatest republic that ever existed.
Under the molding influence of the
Puritan, the Cavalier and the Cove.
nauter, the nation building forces have
worked US out today's institutions.
The reform spirit" that set itself up
in Europe in the 10Th and 10Th centu.
ries have given US modern thought and
civilization. Judge Temples mono
graph is comparison and estim alton
Of these several Influences.
THE CAVALIER.
The Cavalier was the first, in time,
to put foot upon the continent, but
was followed close by the Puritan.
The Covenanter came late. The Puri'
tan had the start of him by 1875 years.
The author defines Covenanter to be