History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . ounced protesting anathemasof that reformed friar of the Augustinian order, MartinLuther, crossed the Balkans and reached well into Italy andsouthern France. The twofold golden thread, that binds the eighth cen-tury to the twentieth, in its thousand years and more of lifetenure, was crossed and recrossed scores of times, was buriedfor centuries in darkness, and again glinted in the sunlight,yet ever remained gold of highest purity. The strand ofcivil freedom that stretched from these wild northern
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . ounced protesting anathemasof that reformed friar of the Augustinian order, MartinLuther, crossed the Balkans and reached well into Italy andsouthern France. The twofold golden thread, that binds the eighth cen-tury to the twentieth, in its thousand years and more of lifetenure, was crossed and recrossed scores of times, was buriedfor centuries in darkness, and again glinted in the sunlight,yet ever remained gold of highest purity. The strand ofcivil freedom that stretched from these wild northern tribes,by way of Britains Rock of Thanet, edging the County ofKent, to Forefathers Rock in Plymouth Harbor, and thecoeval strand of religious liberty that united the Catharii ofArmenia of the seventh century and our Pilgrim and PuritanForefathers was never broken. The Pilgrim held to a truegospel succession, if not to one more or less apocryphal,called Apostolical. Governor Dudley founded at Har-vard a lectureship, in active operation until recently, to 8 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS. CHARLES MARTEL WHO MADEWAY FOR PURITANISM BY DRIV-ING THE MOORS FROM FRANCE. prove the validity of Congregational ordination, from whichsprang a notable literature. Coming events cast long shadows before. When CharlesMartel, The Hammer, in thefall of 732 A. D. turned backthe deluge of Islamism and de-feated the Moors at Tours, hefollowed the victory by drivingthe Arabs from France. CharlesMartel thus silenced the cry ofAllah! Allah! in France andmade clearings in the thicket ofRoman Catholicism for thecoming of Puritanism, the par-ent of Separatistic Congrega-tionalism. With Anglo-Saxon England,the Drama of Life—with William the Conqueror as chiefactor—in the year 1066 was lurid with tragedy. The dyingmonarch, Edward the Confessor, forced to his death by bothsin and time, gave his kingdom to the Norman Prince. So said the Prince—but it required the death of KingHarold and the rout of
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