Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1917 — Ridiculing the Puritans. [ARTICLE]

Ridiculing the Puritans.

It. Is the fashion of late to speak condescendingly of the Puritans, as of , a narrow views and of men ' of sour temperament ; btrt no descendant qf theirs, and no later immigrant who now dwells in the commonwealth they founded, and enjoys the blessings which it bestows upon us, wffi fail to glory in being able to trace back to such forerunners, writes William Roscoe Thayer in the American Magazine. The story of the conditions which faced the passengers of the ‘Mayflower’ when they landed at Plymouth can never be too often repeal ed. To have as founders of our state men and women who ‘had the fear of God in their hearts, but feared the face of go man,’ ranks as the initial glory of Massachusetts-