The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . diem safe to-day. Chaunt with them the melody—Gloria tibi Domine. They have seen another land,And the golden Indies strand,Other winds their sails have Gods holy name,From whom their glorious mission with them the melody—Gloria tibi Domine. Where the myrtle and the palmThrough the forest shed their balm,Where a soft and holy calmEver undisturbed reignsOer its soft and grassy plains ;There the mariner hath
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . diem safe to-day. Chaunt with them the melody—Gloria tibi Domine. They have seen another land,And the golden Indies strand,Other winds their sails have Gods holy name,From whom their glorious mission with them the melody—Gloria tibi Domine. Where the myrtle and the palmThrough the forest shed their balm,Where a soft and holy calmEver undisturbed reignsOer its soft and grassy plains ;There the mariner hath been,There the cross of Christ is chaunt the melody—Gloria tibi Domine. No man who has read the history of this country with an ordina-ry degree of attention will pretend that its Roman Catholic inhabitantshave not been called to endure their full share of persecution. FromVirginia in the South, and from New England in the North, they wereexposed to violence from the men who had cried out against the cruel-ty of popery. Happily, however, there was room enough for both par-ries ; and no difficulty was placed in the way of the Catholics—also. Ceoilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore. 745 Roman Catholic Church. 747 having a colony where they might enjoy their faith and worship undis-turbed. In giving a portrait of Cecilius Calvert, Lord Baltimore, who firstcolonized Maryland, it is due to his father to say, that when Secretaryof State, he became acquainted with the advantages connected withthe American Colonies, and obtained from Charles I., the territory nowembraced in the State of Maryland. As he did not live to enjoy it, itfell into possession of his son, whose portrait we have given, who ar-rived in the colony with a number of his adherents in February, he was himself a Roman Catholic, he caused laws to be pro-mulgated giving full freedom to every Christian sect. The question has often been agitated who first gave full tolerationin this country on th
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