...part of the country, have left the following account of their arrival in tfyeir new home. " After-God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded...to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our present pastors shall lie in the...

...continued about four minutes. The earth was unquiet twenty days after by times." — Winth. Jour. f " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...settled the civil government, one of the next things we louged for, and looked after, was, to advance learning, and perpetuate it This year the great sachem...

...convenient places for religious worship, and settled the civil government, the next thing they longed tor and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity. So did our pious ancestors. So, also — to their honor be it said — do their wandering sons and...

...prayer, and mainly with a view to train up men for the ministry. In 1643, our provident fathers said, "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our house, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled...

...early days, \vu find the following clear and beautiful statement of their thoughts and feelings : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches after our present ministry shall be in the...

...early days, we find the following clear and beautiful statement of their thoughts and feelings : " After God had carried us safe to New England, and...to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches after our present ministry shall be in the...

...historian of New England represents the feeling of the early settlers: " After God had carried us safely to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, raised convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things...

...provided neceflaries for our liveli-hood, rear'd convenient places for Gods worfhip, and fetled the Civill Government : One of the next things we longed for,...after was to advance Learning, and perpetuate it to Pofterity ; dreading to leave an illiterate Miniftery to the Churches, when our prefent Minifters fhall...

...commonwealths what their Christian ambition designed. Thus we are told by one of their own number: "After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had buildcd our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship,...

...touchingly exhibit the spirit of its founders, than their own account of it : — " After God had brought us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses,...advance learning, and perpetuate it to posterity." If these sentiments, and these doings, display not high approaches toward moral perfection, then, indeed...