. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. the changes on that most lamentable oftenets, the divine right of kings and the duty of passive obedience in subjects. All this was gall and wormwood to the thorough Puritans, who were beinggradually forced into the position of sectaries. They had accepted episcopacy,the Prayer-Book, and the surplice, not from choice, but as non-essential matterswhich it was not worth while to object to: they now began to hate them as asso-ciated with what seemed a retrograde movement tow
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. the changes on that most lamentable oftenets, the divine right of kings and the duty of passive obedience in subjects. All this was gall and wormwood to the thorough Puritans, who were beinggradually forced into the position of sectaries. They had accepted episcopacy,the Prayer-Book, and the surplice, not from choice, but as non-essential matterswhich it was not worth while to object to: they now began to hate them as asso-ciated with what seemed a retrograde movement toward Rome, and as the signsand instruments of tyranny. The Pilgrims went to Holland, and thence acrossthe sea, to make the first settlement in Massachusetts. Others remained to sulk,to scowl, to endure uncongenial customs with such patience as they might, andto make the world resound with their deeds somewhat later. Not all of themwere like the figure painted by the popular imagination, and by such literaryartists as Scott and Macaulay, known from other men by his gait, his garb, his THE STORY OF OUR CHRISTIANITY. 641. lank hair, the sour solemnity of hisface, the upturned white of his eyes,the nasal twang with which he spoke,and above all by his peculiar enough there were, and wildlyilliberal opinions, that put a curse onall amusements, most studies, and manyoccupations, making of life a narrowand gloomy cave. Some precisianshad scruples about teaching the Latingrammar, because the names of Mars,Bacchus, and Apollo occurred in fine arts were all but solemn peal of the organ was su-perstitious. The light music of BenJohnsons masques was dissolute. Halfthe fine pair tings in England wereidolatrous, and the other half the advanced Puritans thought, andthe}7 were not men to keep their con-victions to themselves. And againstthem stood the Church part}-, the loyal-ists, and the worlds people, the every-day hearty Englishmen who liked
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