The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-15
BY GILBERT HUBBARD.

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fifteen children. She had advanced
views about religion and soon fell out
with the eight Puritan clergymen OF
Boston, who prosecuted her for con-
sciences sake. She lived and taught
her faith and had to be suppressed.
The ministers got together in secret
session and decided that Anne Hutch
inson must be subdued. She was
usurper upon their preserve, a tres
passer and an interloper.
Fear was the rock upon which they
split And am not sure but that fear
is the only rock in life's channel. Mrs.
Hutchinson had told them that SER
mons, prayers and hymns were mere
works" and that a person could do all
which they demanded and still be
thief and a rogue at heart, and that
this close attention to conduct meant
eventual hypocrisy. On the other
hand, if your mental attitude was
right, your conduct would be right.
Even though it is wrong?" asked
the Rev. Mr.. Wilson.
And Anne Hutchinson replied, aye,
verify
"Then you say that you can commit
no SIM"
'If my heart is right, cannot sin"
as your heart right?
81 am trying to make it So"
"Then you can commit any act you
wish?"
whatever I wish to do will be
right, if my heart is right"
"But suppose, now" and here
these clergymen asked questions
which no gentleman ever asks lady
These men had a fine faculty for
misunderstanding, misinterpreting and
disappearing other peoples
thoughts.
John Cotton tried to pour oil on the
troubled waters by explaining that the
idea of Covenant by Grace was gen
eral, and to make it specific was un
lust and unreasonable. Then the!
turned on Cotton and said, so, yol
are one of them?"
Anne Hutchinson was ordered not U
speak in public. She still held meet
ings at her own house, and claimed
she had the right to ask her friends t.
her home and there to talk to them
She instituted the Boston Thursda,
Lecture, which was taken up by Johl
Cotton and carried by an apostolic
succession to the browning days OF 1t
success, when Adirondack Murra
reigned supreme.
Mrs. Hutchinson spoke to all tn
women the house would hold.
The colony was divided into tw
parts-those who believed in Cove
nant of Grace and those who held t
Covenant of Works.
John Cotton seemed the only Gle
gyman of the eight who realized tina
both sides were right. Anne Hutcl
insen quoted him, told what he ha
said in England, and here, and the
John Cotton had to defend himsel
He did it by criticising her and the
by accusing her of taking his word
too literally. He feared the mob.
The breach widened-he denounce
her. Winthrop was against her an
Cotton saw defeat for himself if b
longer stood by her. She was a goo
woman, but she must be suppresse
for the good of the colony. With I'll
consent of Cotton, and Wilson, his co
league, these two men being joint mi
listers to the Boston church, made TO
NAL charges of heresy against her
Sir Henry Vane, youth of twent
four, noble both by birth and natur
was elected governor of the colon
He sided with Mrs. Hutchinson, ar
sought to bring common sense to bel
and stem the tide of fanaticism. The
turned on him, and his downfall WI
identical with hers, although he WI
to return to England and make h
own way to success; to love Peg VIC
fington and elbow his way to plat
and power, and also to London Towe
and lay his head upon the block in Il
interest of human rights.
Mrs. Hutchinson was tried by
ecclesiastic court and found guilty.
the trial, which covered sever
months, Mrs. Hutchinson defend'
herself at great length and with mu'
skill, but what the clergymen deman
ed was an absolute retraction, and
promise that she would no long
usurp their special function of giyil
public instruction.