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American Remembrance
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The Pilgrims tried a form of communism? And if so did it work for them?
The first college on the American continent founded by the Pilgrims only 16 years after landing in America 372 years ago!!!
Exactly 388 years ago to date the Pilgrims sign the Mayflower Compact.
The first sea-fasts ever held in the world? November 9th, 1620. 388 years ago.
Quotes taken from The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States 1863.
December 22, 1620 Providence would have it....
"On the 22d of December, 1620, the Puritans, one hundred and one in number, landed from the Mayflower, and planted their feet on the Rock of Plymouth, and began a new era in the history of the world. The day and the rock became canonized in American history, and emblems of the grandest Christian ideas and associations. The first act of the Puritans, after landing, was to kneel down and offer their thanksgiving to God, and by a solemn act of prayer, and in the name and for the sake of Christ, to take possession of the continent. They thus repeated the Christian consecration which Columbus, more than a century before, had given to the New World, and so twice in the most formal and solemn manner was it devoted to Christ and Christian civilization. The seed thus planted bore an abundant harvest of Christian fruits, which have blessed the nation and enriched the world. How significant and sublime the lessons that gather round and flow from Plymouth Rock! How does it speak for God and of God! How grandly does it proclaim the Christian faith and fruits of those great and good men who, in prayer and faith, planted a Christian empire in the New World, and started a Christian nation on a noble career of progress and greatness!"
"This description, in substance, corresponds with what the New England Puritans say of themselves. “We give ourselves,” say they, “to the Lord Jesus Christ, and the word of his grace, for the teaching, ruling, and sanctifying of us, in matters of worship and conversation; resolving to cleave unto him alone for life and glory, and to reject all contrary ways, canons, and constitutions of men in his worship.”"
“Our fathers,” says Webster, “had that religious sentiment, that trust in Providence, that determination to do right, and to seek, through every degree of toil and suffering, the honor of God, and the preservation of their liberties, which we shall do well to cherish, to imitate, to equal, to the utmost of our ability.”
"The wheels of providence are not turned about by blind chance..."-George Bancroft 1800-1891 (American Historian and statesman who the Bancroft Treaties were named after)
