History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . M. UROWNISTEK GANG TU THE LEFT. lOED ARCHIVE HOUSE). religion as he hath between the Lord and himself in secretand no more, he boxed the compass of religious life for alltime. The same spirit of Calvin in relation to Servetus, evi-dently smoldered in the hearts of Calvins followers. So in-tensely gripping were the tenets Free Will, Foreordination,Predestination, and other wisely unknowable but entranc-ingly attractive phases of the built-up religion of that daythat brotherhood was too often smudged
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . M. UROWNISTEK GANG TU THE LEFT. lOED ARCHIVE HOUSE). religion as he hath between the Lord and himself in secretand no more, he boxed the compass of religious life for alltime. The same spirit of Calvin in relation to Servetus, evi-dently smoldered in the hearts of Calvins followers. So in-tensely gripping were the tenets Free Will, Foreordination,Predestination, and other wisely unknowable but entranc-ingly attractive phases of the built-up religion of that daythat brotherhood was too often smudged in the war of Pilgrims were able to avoid these religious entangle-ments which on more than one occasion, when tainted withpartisan politics, ended in violence and wounds, shows thefibre of this unique people. In Leyden, pitched battles with THE SEPARATISTS IN HOLLAND 183 pistols and blunderbusses between the politico-religious par-ties, both called Christians, occurred within a few hundredfeet of the twenty-one Pilgrim homes. The verbal battle in the Latin tongue between the Di-. THE AMERICAN TERCENTENARY DELEGATES MEETING WITH OTHERS IN THE TOWN HALL IN LEYDEN IN 1920. vinity professors in Leyden University soon slipped throughthe walls and down into the language of the people. Shopsand factories in which the Pilgrims earned their livelihoodechoed with the controversy that divided business partnersand households, and threatened to disrupt the church all discussions within and without the ReformedChurch, the Pilgrim Fathers trod the path they had markedout with unflinching courage, unswerved by a chaotic en-vironment but always in sympathy with the Calvinistic andthe Union cause then vitally entwined. The forg- 184 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS ing of the Pilgrim and Puritan faith in the fires of afflictionwas no ordinary test. The informer, sheriff, court, prison,and gibbet of England and the religious imbroglios thatkept lock-step with them in
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