Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-15
IN HONOR OF THE PILGRIMS.

The Boston Herald pro opposes a Worlds
fair in 1920, in commemoration of the
landing OF the Pilgrims in this country.
Tho suggestion seems to have found
favor in many newspaper offices.
The history of the Pilgrims is well
worthy OF commemoration. But some
thing more original than a fair, which
is at best merccnary affair, might be
suggested. The Pilgrims were ac-.
tuated by a principle in their exodus,
as were tho first settlers OF Utah, and
not by desire for gain.
During the reign Of Elizabeth there
grew UP in the Church Of England
associations of men and women who
did not consider that the revolt from
Rome was radical enough. They were
called Puritans, They objected to the
use of a prayer book. to- the minister's
wearing u surplice in the pulpit, to the
making Of the sign Of 1.-THE cross In
baptism, and to the use Of the ring in
the marriage ceremony. They held
! that such things were valueless in re-.
lgion, and required everybody to live
pure lives and to be free in their man
ner and worship. They were called
Puritans.
Some OF these Puritans left the church
and held services of their own in pri-
vate houses. or in the open air. They
were called Separatists and Independ-
ents.
When James ascended the throne,
in 1903. he declared that he would
make them conforme themselves. or
I will barrie then, out of the land. or
respect a worthy prototype of some of
the bosses of the so-cailed American
party of our day. He kept his word
as to persecution. Many Puritan min
listers were deprived of their right to
hold services; congregations we're brok-5
en- up. Many We're arrested and i'm.
prsoned as law-breakers. The world
today is ready to thank God for such
'law-breakers." Please do not forget
that some w-breakers'' of one age
are the heroes, and the saviors, of an
other.
: = hobc
were .harried" out of the land. They
went to Holland. to the city of Ley
den, where they were at liberty to
worship according to the dictates of
their conscience. But they soon had
reason to fear that their children would
not, in the strange land, retain the re-
ligion of their fathers. They went to
schools where the English language
was not heard. They enlisted in the
Dutch army, they intermarried, and
lost their nationality. Their pastor
therefore advised them to go to North
America and found a settlement of
their own. About two hundred of them
decided to follow this advice. Per-
mission was obtained from the Lon
don Company to settle on its land
Having obtained a charter and bor-
rowed $4,000. they set out in July, 1920,
from Delft Haven, in the Speedwell.
In England they We're Joined by few
friends and the Mayfiower, and in Au-
gust, 1920, the two ships left for the
New World.
Soon it was found that the SpeedweH
was unseaworthy and the Pilgrims had
to return to Plymouth. On the 9Th of
September the Mayflower left that har-
Dor. She had 1o2 colonists on board
and was bound for the Hudson river.
IN November 1870, after nine weeks at
sea, they entered Cape Cod bay.
On board the Mayfower were the
captain and crew. who were not at all
interested in the foundation OF COL
Then there were nineteen women,