The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-11-14
Rev. DR.. VoSe Makes an Interesting
Address Before the Veteran Clt-
iizens Historical Association.
New Members Elected.

ehusetts was the soil out Of which SOUL
liberty sprang If the system was not AZ
ways triie to. itself, it bred hon"H ah"
brave souls. a.
Roger Williams was Congregauonshs,
when no came 90 Rhode Island, and had
no thought or cstubitSntrg new sect' ~
fact he was SO very mlsectarisn that ne
did not wish 10 belong 90 any denomln1
tion az all: but he wes Congregauohs'-
is, minister 10 begin Nith.anh John Ilarke
and Anne Hutchinson were Congregdu""'
allsts. and founded the first chutci, ~
Newpert, which, however. hrcainf hip
list ere Ions, though that had i.pihinS 10
| do With the question of roul-iioertv
pu, our Baptist brethren have cleaner
| ,ocord than ours I'm their after ministry.
and we have no disposition To deny 'heu,
J the praise they deserve as pioneers ~
sreedom. There were many IN Ne"poI'
| who preferred TO remain Congfeshuoha'-
| ists, unrestricted as 30 the moue OF pap-
| lam True independents DO not make
| r,o,,t ~ tho form. hut arc ~illing 10 ac-
| knowledge the fellowship Of Christians;
who use their liberty in regord TO outward
Thcse were days. however. OF scpsra-
| lions not yet altogether healed ana thete
were many differences OF ohpioh ~
Rhode Island in the early days no ome
can doubt: and among famihes anu lhu'
II
| Mad large sympathy with the churches
,hcv mad left In MasaachuFetts. In fac'
Congrerationalism was pretty lively ~
phode Island. and the regions adjacent
from early times IN Ssfkonk, NOT very
far from where Roger Williams landed
A Conversational church was tounded u
Iel9 THAT ground was stfl claimed o'
Plymouth Colony hut the people Worsnp
nine, there were chiefly from providence
THE HARRINGTON CHURCH
Recommendation church IN Barring
, | ION dates hack TO iGsi. the church j.
Z bristol 90 1857. Both these IL Will be seer
I were on the borders of the colony ION
: claimed by Massachusetts. In fact ou
r little state has maintained htr rlsnt
\ territory through long and obstinate COZ
. diets down to the very last century.
5 There was a congregational church
Kingston which LED a precarlons III
i'm tho cnrly years. ard hardly venture
10 claim vital existence until 1870 Neve
Y theleqs. the early congregational church'
ON the outskirts OF our state had mus
20 do with the formine OF Christian ID
= and character. ~ is hardly too much
'l claim that there was more resuiar No
e shin held iu them than anywhere else, II
A. is well known that Providonce "
without any meeting house FOR siN
wears. and the dispOsiuon So leave q
, support OF the ministry entirely uncar
z for. or rather insist that PAID mm
=, try was wicked aud Contcmptiblo'
hircllns ministry a. "a vas called. woo
,r naturally work against regular services
- n nsrdgauoualists were not al
io gether tolerant. they did insist ON 7
or duty of contribuuup TO the support
the gosp.L ana thc Observance cf I
yr I.ords day These two things are @
h- iainly important 90 thC preservation
- the christian religion; and while We
~ ioice In the glorious doctrine OF 80
ne liberty. we must admit that tho COS
- OF Christ lays resuonabli'ios on tn
who profe-s lt, which Cannot saiely
- | neglected
-, While the Puritlus Wefe uumst iu 1.
!, irn ,boa, Who dld not wish a. Join
!, their. wurship. thoy dld night m ma
- tanning parlr princlplc thsftrsN WI
rrparh the gospel should I've ot no s
-, nei and A. Christians ia RHODE lsl,
- md not ncepisd that rrincipie
= later DAYS there would have hfrn
little orEanlzcd worship
These Congreza tlonai churches on
=. borders taught the poeple Of Rhode
n. and the need ~ self-sacrince go n
=. cburchfs. and support niuistets W
-. they learned from Roger WiNians
iarrer liberty.
ls- rhris,iar charity spread in both
rcctions Soul liberty Uo1ld have
m, meaning. IL men forzo they had
u tC0ntlnued on page seven