The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 14, Number 42, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 16 February 1922 — Page 2

THE PILGRIM CHARACTER “Next to the fugitives whom Moses led out of Egypt, the little ship-load of outcasts who landed at Plymouth are destined to influence the future of the world.”—James Russell Lowel. When an American of today reads that volume which was written three hundred years ago, William Bradford’s History of Plymouth,—he is apt to wonder how he would conduct himself if he were placed in a situation similar to that of the Pilgrims when they decided that they must leave Holland. But he knows very well! that neither his own early training nor that which he is giving his children is conducive to the development of the most distinguishing characteristic of the Pilgrims, absolute consecration to an ideal. Persecution, imprisonment and their own desire and determination to secure religious freedom had taken the Pilgrims to Holland in 1607. There they had been safer and happier than in England, for at that time Holland was more advanced intellectually than any other country of Europe and under the House, of Orange, religious jreedam was Protestant, Catholic and Jew. But though the Pilgrims admired the Bolan ders and enjoyed their faire and bewtifull cities, flowing with all. sorts of wealth and riches, they regretted that their own children were destined to lose the traditions and language of England if they remained in a foreign land. After long and prayerful consideration, the forefathers decided that their love of God, their dream of civic government based on Republican equality and the preservation to posterity of their own customs and ideals were dearer to them than peace and safety in Holland; in 1620, therefore, they undertook a second and a greater exile. How many of us, for the love of God and loyalty to an ideal, would have the courage to part forever from the comforts of civilization, leave many of those who were dearest to us, take a dangerous and seldom tried ocean voyage, and make a home in the wilderness, —in short, voluntarily go into exile? When they arrived in America ‘‘they had no friends to welcome them, nor inns to entertain or refresh their weather-beaten bodys, no houses or much less townes to repai re too, to seeke for sucoure.” Five months after landing, the Mayflower returned to England, leaving on the American shores only forty-nine of the one hundred and one passengers who had landed, the ethers having died from exposure to the hardships of life in the wilderness. The Pilgrims did all of these things and did them cheerfully, bravely, uncomplaining. It did not occur to them that they were martyrs, because their matchless faith in the goodness of God to those who did His will

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j c aused them to believe that all I things would work together for j their good. In mentioning the indifference ! of the Pilgrims to material comi fort and prosperity and their decision to cross the ocean and i settle in the wilderness, Bradford writes, “But they knew they were pilgrimes, and looked ; not much on those things, but lift up their eyes to ye heavens, . their dearest cuntrie, and quieted their spirits; for they had other work in hand, and another 1 kind of warr to wake and maintaine.” We are apt to think of the 1 Pilgrims as a severe, stern people, strictly virtuous yet lacking in the gentler qualities of the Christian character, but let us recall a well known instance which proves that forbearance, patience and tenderness were their strongest characteristics. j In November, 1621, only a year after the Pilgrims had landed, a ship bearing thirty-five new colonists arrived. Not one of them had tools, food or clothing ether than for his immediate needs. Yet the forefathers shared them as brothers, and as a result there was not a time during the next two years when they were not in great i need of food and clothing. . The Pilgrims showed what their standards of character were when they chose their Elder, Mr. William Brewster. (The Pilgrim Character —2) .... ' He was a Christian gentleman who had gladly sacrificed social

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position, suffered imprisonment, and gone into voluntary exile for “ye Kingdome of God and Religion’s sake.” Bradford’s description of his life-long friend is most satisfying. "In teaching he was very stirring and moving the affections; also very plain and distinct in what he taught, by the which means he became the more profitable to his hearers.” Os Brewster’s sympathy and kindliness, Bradford writes, "He was tender-hearted and compassionate of such as were in misery, but especially of such as had been of good estate and rank and were fallen into want and poverty, either for goodness or religion’s sake. But,” adds Bradford, “none did more offend and displease him than such as would haughtily and proudly lift up themselves, being risen from nothing, and having little else in them but a few fine clothes or a little riches more than others.” Surely we can tell our children of no nobler heroes than the Pilgrims whose character is best described by those words of James, “. .first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.” For those who would know more of these courageous people, we recommend William Bradford’s History of Plymouth, published by the Mass. Historical Society, Boston, Mass. — (By

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