The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-12-18
ARTICLE VII.

no immediate change in Eue:acy forms
or spirit, but this is true of most trans.
lions. On one side of the intercentusy
line Samuel Willard Displayed The Peril
of the Times" and William sSaatheiby
lifted uD his Testimony Against
Prophaneness in PHILADELPHIA On the
other Cotton Mather drops American.
Tears Upon the Ruins OF the Greek
Churches" and Increase, his father, de-
piores that The Glory of the Lori is
Departing from New England while
John hale shows How Persons Guilty
of Witchcraft May Be Concerteu"-:s &c
lated attempt to prolong an old agony,
and this, too. in spite of Robert CaIe f S
| protest against the madness of the age
j in his More Wonders of the Invisiblc.
| ,.sHrld. In his he showed tina. this re
were other n,arYels that might be drag
| ged into the service Of fanaticisIn, and
| that those which had kindied the popu.ar
frenzy are as harmless as these it was
| the outSpoken, common sense rebuke of
the layman and business man 20 the
specuiations and Superstitions of minis
tiers and magistrates, calling a halt to
their destructive credulity. 1t threw these
worthless into Tuning rage, in which
they poured Walls of wrath upon the au-
thor and burned his books with dire
malediction in the yard of Harvard eel
lege.
Notwithstanding the prevailing soniber-
ness, the opening Of the eighteenth CEN
fury is Illuminated by a bar of light
shot through the general gloom. Colonsts
begin to get beyond the confines of their
native towns and to see other people tnan
their next neighbors. Charles Wolley
writes "a Two Years Journal in New
York, and Sarah Kemble Knight re-
cords her adventures during journey on
I, NOI~o DI-
New York and returning. George Keith
writes "A Journal of Travels in North
America and Rev. John Williams an
account of his forced march to Canada
with Indian captors, and his subsequent
ransom under the scriptural title of 'rhe
redeemed Captive Returning to Zion,"
that is, to Deerfield, Mass. Thus, in one
way and another a. new feature is add
ed to the literature that had been grow
ing up around the meeting house and the
f1reside, the pillory and the gallows.
Their last book, for instance full of suf-
fering as it is. on a blood-stained trail
over snow and ice to Montreal, is never
theless without its shrewd observation OF
things and men, which must have been
revelation to those who had not been
personally conducted by savages into
Roman Catholic country. The heroism
with which the unwilling pilgrims bore
the distress of the journey and their
devout trust in Providence are equaled
by the steadfastness with which they re-
sisted all efforts to make them attend
mass, or to sign themselves with the
sign of the cross. 1t was an opportunity
to show what puritanism could do and
dare under fire, as it had already shown
what it would do on the throne. But in
c1dentaliy its views were enlarged by go
ing into the Frenchman's country and
discovering that 'papistry'' could at least
be polite and kind hearted
Nine. Knight. in her excursion along
shore, did not always find the same quail
tiles among her countrymen. Her itin-
erary is a revelation of country and
town life in four colonies 1t contains
graphic accounts of pumpkin guides, pork
and cabbage dinners, a bed next the
barroom, river fording, country stores
and their customers, rigid laws against
kissing on Sunday, hard fare at a French
inn, the charms of a New York vender
and of the people who lived in tiled
houses, hospitable and sociable, civil and
courteous, and who atoned for not keep
ing the Sabbath with Boston strictness
by exact dealing in business. Doubtless
her account was part of liberal educa-
ton of the Bostonese ''who come flock
ing in to hear the story of my transac-
tons and travails, having this day been
five months from home'' 1t may now
be read in the fair copy printed in AL
bany in 1865.
Charles Wolley was another for whom
New York had numerous attractions,
clergyman of the English church though
he was. and finding ministers scarce
and religions many while he observed
the shy and uncharitable spirit of these
preachers, "as If Luther and Calvin had
H.
and uncharitable spirit upon them, and
not interchanging visits for five years
together. Still he must acknowledge
their great fluency in speaking Latin on
an occasion when he got them together
and forbade the use of any other tongue.
Of the New York townspeople he re-
marks that their principal diversion is
''aurigat1on, i. e., riding about in wag-
ons, which is allowed by physicians to
be very healthy exercise '-still followed
by their descendants. Mentioning other
paStimes, he concludes that Its a place
SO very inviting that our gentry, mer-
chants and clergy Especially such as
have the natural stamina of a conSump-
tive propagation in them or an hypo-
chondriacal consumption. which flock
there for preservation" Such a san
itarium was the Dutch English metropo-
lis in 1701.
Geogre Keith, missionary sent out by
the English church, was about as much
of an American as John Smith, staying
here two years, travelling from New
Hampshire to North Carolina and writ
ing an account of his professional tour
nament with Quakers and others. At
the end, however, he adds: "In all places
where We travelled and preached we found
the people generally we'll affected to the
doctrine we preached among them, and
they did generally join with us in the
liturgy of the church as We had occasion
to use it,
Three days before the incoming of the
eighteenth century John Lawson, "agent
and surveyor general of North Carolina
started on 1,000-mile Journey among
Indian tribes. of which he wrote and
published Sprightly account. In it he
attributes the lack of good reports by
travellers in this country to the fact that
they are for the most part persons of
the meaner sort and generally Of a very
slender education, incapable Of giving a
reasonable account of curfosities worthy
a nice observation. With such tourists
from England-a race not yet extinct-he
contrasts the learned observer sent out
by the king of France and their journals
of travel from Canada to the Mississippi.
Then, dedicating his work to three noble
men and the rest Of the lords pro-
prietors, he begins his story at Charles
ton, whence he voyages with nine COM
panons by sea and river, encountering
game and mosquitoes, savages with rum
and without 1t, wild cattle and hogs, very
lean, contrary currents and cold weather,
plenty OF furs and good bargains. The
aboriginal customs particularly interest
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