The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-17
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 3nflict almost any punishment on any One who dared to digress from certain *fWe1l established forms. The minister
 was the one who suffered most severely for any attempt of this nature, and the DanRItieS were even so severe that pun S3Shme1lt by Imprisonment might be Sx4eted out. Elizabeth when given this X3alAnce of power, liberated many per $Bons from jails who had been imprison- ed by her predecessor, Mary, for. relig- d0tiA views which were contrary to fhoSe of her own. But the passage of xhese acts by parliament, giving Eliza Sbeth special powers, caused the people 8o be all the more discontented, be- &ailse they could not worship in their 5pwn way, and they awakened as if from ' aleep of hundreds of years and their 8SOuls were alert to the dawning of battcr day. The more Puritans that SWere punished the more they became Aeterniined that such injustice should alot be tolerated. and the result of Eliz abetl1's reign was that many were driven from the English church. Some Pronounced and founded an independent Ghurch. When James succeeded to the fhrbf1e he stated that he would have rYfe religion. and one only, and if he found any that did not agree with him ffl this nfatter he would drive them from the Kingdom.
 The speaker dwet upon the Puritan
 STacter at some length. The entire 1aS ss t.ess was a study of the Pilgrim Rather from the time of his beginning ZfflI his landing on Plymouth Rock
 ~~&ft i. tl,A Eramme was that given by A. William Eperry who sang Kings Beyond the GAtes of Paradise"
 snThe Puritan of the New World' was {ha subject of very felicitious address 6y%Rey. Edward Grier Fullerton, pas
 ois of the Park church in Bridgeport. HE facetious description of the Puri- Ysfn of to-day was intensely amusing &{id served to illustrate in very strik- Siif way just how far we have progress ed along certain lines in an effort to 4aafntain one of the original ideas in &Ee minds of our forefathers when they Eanie to this country--that of keeping Bflie English language pure. He said &hat the story of the Pilgrim was al 4vays an old one, yet ever new, and that Eve would probably never tire of hear lng It's repetition. This is not a time for self-felcations, but one for stern Tes0lves and high aspirations The pre- Ayafling Tendencies in the times of our 16refathers, their ideas and ideals, have ei1ot been greatly changed in this age. Those who are seeking to keep the lan k4fage pure have to struggle with the lRnguage of sport where it is said "that e11e batter soon sized up the curves of {fie south-paw twirler and nailed a hot Elmer to deep center which was good for & tfiree-bagger and the bleachers laugh 4d and yelled themselves hoarse.' We xteHr the cry, very strong at times that Fn should shorten the college course
 aidsgive more attention to the techni- Sai line of study. Soon we will have Suung men studying manicuring and Iffropody. The spirit of athletics is Overwhelming us, and soon we may lave the director general of the athlet- Hs Of the university as the president
 Kz0fflcio We can't get away from the XiIB of our surroundings; we have no 3eW land to which we can go as our 30fefathers did. How far as he pre- Failed down to the present day? Has 6e gone or is he only changed in exter SaAl Appearance? The dire poverty of HE time produced the parsimony of Traces. This spirit of frugality was over developed He had certain religious laeals. and these had a tendency to de- | Relop him on one side. The business of | &osterity has been to even him up and | BrIng him to the same level on both | Sides, not to lessen his religious ideals, | bilt to make him the all-round man. We | 5houId not blame him so much as his | Ancestors. # Rev. John Calvin Goddard, minister | &ff the Old church in Salisbury, was the | Hast speaker. His topic was ''The Puri- fan Man of Like Passions With Our Selyes'' He said this was an age of fiticism, of courts of naval inquiry and l4aany other matters which the Pilgrims rEf the former days had nothing to do Nftla. The glory of the Pilgrim father
 fndelible, and the real man is more
 4teresting than the imaginary. The
 nritan was man of like passions with i1rselves He took religion in large 6ees and dispensed it in the same way, 6r we well know that when the May ] 1fyfer was on her way to this country
 <Sre were three sermons a day and faf people had to listen, as they could ? Fl ro away. They were not homeopa 3efs. If the circumstances of Puritan : < 6ysS enveloped ,ls to-day we would find 1;3eion our happy hunting grounds. F z ssre IS a charge that the Puritan was