. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANBERRIES THE NA TIONAL CRANBERR Y MAGAZINE - Our 35th Year of Publication - a Issue of November 1974 / Volume 39 - No. 7 A PLUG FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG With the familiar sights and tastes of Thanksgiving still surrounding us, it seems not an inaccurate statement to say that cranberries have become at least as much a part of American tradition as apple pie. This is yet another thing for which we can thank our Pilgrim forebearers. The minds of most Americans have construed the experience at Plymouth, which began in 1620, as being in
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. CRANBERRIES THE NA TIONAL CRANBERR Y MAGAZINE - Our 35th Year of Publication - a Issue of November 1974 / Volume 39 - No. 7 A PLUG FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG With the familiar sights and tastes of Thanksgiving still surrounding us, it seems not an inaccurate statement to say that cranberries have become at least as much a part of American tradition as apple pie. This is yet another thing for which we can thank our Pilgrim forebearers. The minds of most Americans have construed the experience at Plymouth, which began in 1620, as being inevitably linked somehow with the final and ; glorious consummation of the American Revolution. I For here at Plymouth was the spiritual seed of the ! nation, the men and women who so strongly desired â . liberty, those who finally knew the inestimable value of being able to worship God without fear of i persecution. Surely their courage, which enabled l them to seek liberty successfully, is something for i which we can also be thankful. Most of our public schools are careful not to gloss i up the Pilgrim experience entirely, yet there is not as i much accurate inquiry into the spiritual disposition of these courageous people, as there should be and thus most Americans have an incomplete under- standing of exactly what occurred in the hearts and minds of our earliest forefathers. The Pilgrims were escaping a Church which they believed had become too tainted to be able to be fully purified from within. They set out to build a new arm of the Church, one that in their estimation would more faithfully conform to the will of God. Consequently they had some very definite, rigid, notions of how the Christian religion should be practiced. Though they probably placed high value upon an individual's unique relationship with Christ, they were also zealous to be of spiritual habits, as continued on page 6 I. S. Cobb . .publisher J. B. Presler . .editor Office: R-55 Summer Street, Kingston,
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