John Harvard and his times . patched from New England on thelast day of March. Those were times whena letter from that quarter of the world wasvenerated as a sacred script, or as the writingof some holy prophet; twas carried manymiles, where divers came to hear it. Thatmore than usual publicity was given to thisletter, which Dudley wrote so laboriously by thefireside, and on his knee for lack of a table, can-not be doubted. He penned the epistle spe-cially for the guidance and use of such as shallhereafter intend to increase our Plantation,and that several manuscript copies were madeof it is b
John Harvard and his times . patched from New England on thelast day of March. Those were times whena letter from that quarter of the world wasvenerated as a sacred script, or as the writingof some holy prophet; twas carried manymiles, where divers came to hear it. Thatmore than usual publicity was given to thisletter, which Dudley wrote so laboriously by thefireside, and on his knee for lack of a table, can-not be doubted. He penned the epistle spe-cially for the guidance and use of such as shallhereafter intend to increase our Plantation,and that several manuscript copies were madeof it is beyond question. One copy, we maybe sure, passed into the hands of Tuckney,who at this time was associated with John Cot-ton in ministerial work in Old Boston, and byhim it would doubtless be forwarded to Em-manuel College for the information of suchstudents there as had given signs of a desire toproceed to New England. In this way it maywell have happened that Dudleys letter cameunder the eyes of John Harvard. If so, per-240. (); -WINDOW IN Tin; riiAiTi, of college, CAMUIUl)GE. — Fmje 2K). THE NEW WORLD haps he read these words as a call to himself:If any godly men, out of religious ends, willcome over to help us in the good work we areabout, I think they cannot dispose of them-selves nor of their estates more to Gods gloryand the furtherance of their own reckoning. None of the colleges of Cambridge contrib-uted so liberally to the ministerial ranks ofearly New England as Emmanuel. As wehave seen, that foundation was essentiallyPuritan in its spirit and reputation, and thoseof its sons who had found and were enjoyingunstinted religious liberty in the New Worldlost no opportunity to advertise their happinessamong such of their brethren as were still inbondage. Hence, during the entire period ofhis career as a student. Harvard must havebeen in close and constant touch with the latestnews from that happy land where the uncon-stitutional extortions of Charle
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