Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 . erited from the long past, an antipathy between Catho-lics and Protestants, which was to create difficulties in a homo-geneous growth of the country. It was to be easier for theAnglo-Saxon to absorb the Latin than for either one or the otherto adopt or modify the others faith. The old population leanedupon a Holy Church, which in some respects mediated betweenGod and man; the n
Colonial Mobile; an historical study largely from original sources, of the Alabama-Tombigbee basin and the old South West, from the discovery of the Spiritu Santo in 1519 until the demolition of Fort Charlotte in 1821 . erited from the long past, an antipathy between Catho-lics and Protestants, which was to create difficulties in a homo-geneous growth of the country. It was to be easier for theAnglo-Saxon to absorb the Latin than for either one or the otherto adopt or modify the others faith. The old population leanedupon a Holy Church, which in some respects mediated betweenGod and man; the new, although with diversities of belief andpractice, looked to the spiritual growth of the individual Chris-tian, and recognized no earthly intermediary between man andhis Maker. The very music of the two faiths echoed their differences. TheCatholic joined responsively in the chants of the priest at thealtar, or was carried up in rapture by the anthems of a choir,in which he joined, if he joined at all, to swell the volume. TheProtestant would sing psalmody chopped into 6s and 7s, longor short metre, — often lined out to him from scarcity of booksand education,—but into which he entered with heart and
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