The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ncreased, dis-ease strengthened, and deaths became frequent. The comparativelyhealthy were little able to bestow the required attention on the sick,and every funeral was as if the dying had been called to the burying ofthe dead. At one season there were not more than seven persons capa-ble of performing such offices. Among those w7ho were the earliest cutoff, was a son of Carver, the Governor. His own sickness and deathsoon follo
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ncreased, dis-ease strengthened, and deaths became frequent. The comparativelyhealthy were little able to bestow the required attention on the sick,and every funeral was as if the dying had been called to the burying ofthe dead. At one season there were not more than seven persons capa-ble of performing such offices. Among those w7ho were the earliest cutoff, was a son of Carver, the Governor. His own sickness and deathsoon followed, and then his affectionate wife sunk broken-hearted to thegrave. Carver was a man of a noble and generous nature. He hadsold considerable estates, and had assigned the whole value to thebenefit of his companions. In all their trouble, no man descended moreren dily to the humblest service, in behalf of the meanest. The mourning-colonists buried him with such military honours as they could command,discharging several volleys of musketry over his grave. William Brad-ford, the subsequent historianof the colony, was chosen his successor. CONGREGATIONALISTS. 347. Governor Carvers Chair. But in the course of this melancholy winter, of the hundred and onesettlers, fifty were removed by death! In March the cold abated, the wind came from the south, and thebirds sung pleasantly in the woods. The Mayflower now left the har-bour, and returned to England. But after so many had fallen victimsto exposure and climate, the remainder were in danger of perishing fromwant. In the autumn new emigrants arrived. They came withoutprovisions. The Pilgrim families could not see them die of hunger, andduring six months they all subsisted on half allowance only. I haveseen men stagger, says Winslow, u By reason of faintness for want offood. At one juncture, it appeared to be their doom that famineshould destroy them. They were saved by the compassion of fishermen,whom foul weather had driven to their
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