Marble Hill press., 1921-11-17

Nevertheless Plymouth t~sau relatively TO l"~
ground. whole cutnu uuifi-s came over 10 body
bringing q. classes frum iSl'r.ts 90 gh's'eiAhs
and clsrgJ .rsn bot tes ~rni e. Plymouth. 10"
Pilgrims hsi no e"nstliucncy rheit bitter 90
position o. ne established church sni 10 ihe Pun
tsns and their desire ~ 10 le< slons. sS~fuair
Isolated them from their sister enlcnies
In the n.rt two decade. Rrsdfcsi. hrv-stsr aHi
ssniish died and Nlnsic- returned 20 Entlsnd
The cr~stioo ~ thryins tosns all ah-sai sss>-
ehus~tts hsy and 10 ths s~.' ss far I. the '"o-
uerticui river. % the Snuni sne even e'~f -
L>ns Island pr-errslly reacted on ths li';ls srr-?
u - 1870 rlJmosth -n the aoYinAht fnfes
N TIE S.- World. Anrr that and svcats
s~e.t p.r her and srpuhi hsf uhtN Ia iSl sSs
-s ,-siio-ed W by Nas.sehusstta
Ta~r shenrptlcu into III. Ns.s-hus-tts ccicaJ
-.s c.sy and nsturrL In 1901 their er~~i sii 90
iircr Materially from that u the churches founiei
II s. lem and IN the later coloniss AL ths Ns-
England ehureh-s we're ccmplsssly sspa>t~i
ercn ,As established church a. s'ea b"h'nsn
could have wished
I'd. polis,esi ,rtinesen ~ rfym~uta r~any
q triumph The rrISrtms hss ecnqu-r~d spiritual.
IT, II. Ne~ England churches ~ers ruled by The
Congregation What they called pogtsh ptse'ic,s
everyvhsre ended
Plymouth losing her civic tnder-ntsoe~ h~csms
nrst = general possession ~ al New Enxisad and
then = trsition Of the nation.
tn. little Msyhover band hsf bccctns miEhu
host -,eadfsst always IN the maintenance "t
individual rights and lsuerly s,cot defenders OF
religious liberty
There are now more .ons ~ tho Pilgrims To tb'
Mississippi valley than in Massachusetts, moro on
the paclnc coast than in Plymouth
The revolt AZ Scroohy. unimportsnt that 70
VAS .~areely noticed by the authertiss. n nra
registered merely a protest assin- established er
ror and power Then. with little e~noepioa OF
the significance Of their acts the men who led
that revolt became the most succ~ssfol afventurrrs
In all history.
Eurppe generally regarded America much a.
the Creek. regarded all the world beyonf tho III
lars o. Hercues-as unlrhnhitahie except by bar
hari,r. and full OF terrible nons,ers Colombia
,,on had previously been = failure because II had
lark.a knowledge and q right purpose. The un
.hnr,sd western seas and the unerpiored western
,oria wers almost as mysterious in ldcp as they
had been IN l4a2 The economic success OF fUm-
outh d,ssipated the mystery and made IN" CONT
pent land for citizens rather than fnr ahventnr'
.rs for workers rather than for profiieate peers
Europes attitude was Immediately changed anu
the New World was slowly transformed from
p,,srv hay into a place ~ illintabie opportunity
The Pilgrims we're politically impracticabie and
-.u,lned economically unlmportant TO the -end
They were spiritually brave, but ~ h"ny ap@r.
,hev were impossible to live with. They agreed
With few. and few agreed with them. eat tney
made the great demonstration they and NOT e"'
uuhus made the great discovery.
A.. .nc,eo, legend tells US that the two great
rorts .tsnding one on the souther'y point OF
sr.I, the other over against II on the northery
r,,p, ~ Africa were torn asunder by Hercules
70 admit the Atlantic and form the Mediterranean
40. This beautiful old myth. as Is the habit OF
myths. fitted itself to existing facts and explained
a mystery by creating greater mystery
The Pilgrims did not mystify, ihey answered
,,a r,,,dlc over which Europe had gravely pom
dar.d for more than a hundred years. They lifted
the curtain which for six hundred years had con-
ceaed the great mystery. With their feeble hands
,hey erected pillars that marked the entrance 10
/. new continent through which speedily poured
the siood Of life that has given America to the
world