. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . PENNS AUTOGRAPHAND SEAL 104 OUR COUNTRYS STORY Growth ofthe city writing, and arithmetic. The Quaker belief in regard to educa-tion was quite different from that of the Puritans, Both wereeager to miderstand the Bible aright. The Puritans thought thatthe more of a student a man was, the better chance he would have of knowing justwhat every verse inthe Bible meant. Thatis why the Puritanswere so anxious tofound a college. The(Quakers thought thatif one simply learnedto read, God would putinto his heart the mean-ing of what was
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . PENNS AUTOGRAPHAND SEAL 104 OUR COUNTRYS STORY Growth ofthe city writing, and arithmetic. The Quaker belief in regard to educa-tion was quite different from that of the Puritans, Both wereeager to miderstand the Bible aright. The Puritans thought thatthe more of a student a man was, the better chance he would have of knowing justwhat every verse inthe Bible meant. Thatis why the Puritanswere so anxious tofound a college. The(Quakers thought thatif one simply learnedto read, God would putinto his heart the mean-ing of what was said inthe Bible. That is whythey did not think it was necessary to have a college, althoughthey wished their children to have a common school education. Philadelphia grew rapidly and soon became the largest city inthe colonies, retaining that distinction for many years. Two yearsafter Penns arrival the first printing press in the middle colonieswas established in Philadelphia. There, too, was published thefirst daily paper in the United PENNS HUICK ;(Formerly standing on the west side of Letitia Street) English per-secution ofRomanCatholics MARYLAND. Maryland is a kind of link between the northern colonies andthose farther south. It was first settled in 1034, the very year inwhich Roger Williams was having so hard a time in Massachu-setts. The Roman Catholics in England were meeting evengreater troubles than his. If they refused to attend the EpiscopalChurch, they were fined or imprisoned, or even tortured. Not aword could they say about making the laws of the land, and they MARYLAND 105 could not even send their children away to school in RomanCatholic countries. The queen was a Roman Catholic, but,strangely enough, this fact only made life in England harder forthe members of her church. In order to marry her, Charles hadpromised that the laws against those of her faith should not becarried out. He had no power to bring this to pass, and whilethe Roman Cathol
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