Providence in colonial times . there for two yearshe abode as teacher, diversifying his ministrations tothe Pilgrim Fathers by a brisk discussion of the themethat * Christian Kings (so-called) are invested witha right, by virtue of their Christianity, to take andgive away the lands and countries of other proposition, as interpreted by Williams, led to adenial of the validity of the royal land grants, andthe assertion that an equitable title to the land couldonly be obtained from its rightful owners, the Indians. These years are also memorable, in the record ofRoger Williamss experienc
Providence in colonial times . there for two yearshe abode as teacher, diversifying his ministrations tothe Pilgrim Fathers by a brisk discussion of the themethat * Christian Kings (so-called) are invested witha right, by virtue of their Christianity, to take andgive away the lands and countries of other proposition, as interpreted by Williams, led to adenial of the validity of the royal land grants, andthe assertion that an equitable title to the land couldonly be obtained from its rightful owners, the Indians. These years are also memorable, in the record ofRoger Williamss experiences, for his missionary workamong the Indians. God was pleased to give me,he tells us, a painful patient spirit to lodge withthem in their filthy smoke-holes ... to gain theirtongue, and he dug into their barbarous rockiespeech to such good purpose that we are told by aMassachusetts writer of 1634 that he hath spent Roger Williams House at Salem From a drawing in Edwin Whitefields Homes of ourForefathers in Massachusetts, 1880,. ^Planter and ^Plantation 11 much time in attaining to their language wherein heis so good a proficient that he can speak to their un-derstanding, and they to his; much loving and re-specting him for his love and counsell. This friend-ship stood him in good stead, for by its aid he wasable — when driven from his home by the fury of thelong-gathering storm — to obtain from Canonicus,the old high Sachem of the Narragansett Bay, andhis nephew and heir, Miantonomi, a grant of land be-yond the bounds of the Massachusetts patent. In 1633, Roger Williams found himself once morein Salem, installed there as assistant to Mr. Skeltonof the church of that town. He left behind him inPlymouth the reputation of a man godly and zeal-ous, having many precious parts, but very unsettledin judgement . . he is to be pitied, and prayed for,and so I shall . . desire the Lord to shew him hiserrors, and reduce him in the way of truth, and givehim a settled judgement and const
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