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Your Pilgrim Fathers, God-fearing men. 2. They believed they were Divinely lead in founding their Israel in the waste places in America.

3. God preserved the Pilgrim Vine which His own right hand had planted-they wrote. 4. The Pilgrims kept the Sabbath just as God said Israel would throughout their genera

tions.

5. The book of Common Prayer is a book of

common sense.

6. The Anglo-Saxon nations doing the missionary work which the Almighty said would be done by His servants Israel.

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The waste places given to Israel to establish the earth.

8. In Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and America.

9. In Flanders' fields and America's reply. 10. The Ensign set up by the root of Jesse is the Union Jack or Jacob.

11. The first national flag of United States had the Union Jack or the Union of Jacob in

the corner and was called the "Grand Union".

12. America's section of waste places.

13. America's Divine Commission was to take on with Brother John these waste places of

the earth.

CHAPTER VIII.

Your Pilgrim Forefathers were a Godfearing body of men. "They entered into covenant to walk with God and one with one another, in the enjoyment of the Ordinances of God, according to the Primitive Pattern in the Word of God. But finding by experience they could not peaceably enjoy their own liberty in their Native Country, without offence to others that were dif ferently minded, they took up thoughts of removing.'

They first went to Holland, and from there the spirit moved them to go to America. It took two years, however, before they could secure the right and a patent to take up land in Virginia. They had to explain that they were Englishmen and Protestants, that they assented to the doctrines of the Church of England and acknowledged the King's authority; and they agreed not to become rebellious or dangerous colonists. The government seemed to have a hunch even in that day that they were to lose America and so tied them to an agreement not to be rebellious, etc.

*Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers with an Introduction by John Masefield, New York: E. P. Dutton & Co.

After those in Holland had embarked and had stopped for their friends in England, the Pilgrims left Plymouth and started across the ocean in the "Mayflower" and the "Speedwell. On two occasions they had to sail back to England because of the unseaworthiness of the "Speedwell"; and they finally had to give up the "Speedwell," sell part of their provisions, and overcrowd the "Mayflower" when they made their final start, September 6-16, 1620, for Virginia.

The "Mayflower" had a tough passage, encountering many gales, in one of which her main beam was broken. But one of the Pilgrims had a jack screw and with this a repair was made and the voyage was continued. They made land November 9-19, 1620, at Cape Cod. The crew refused to sail down the coast in the teeth of the November gales, and the Pilgrims had to land and stay in Massachusetts though their patent was only for Virginia.

Right here may I mention how Providence guided these people and took care of them. Had they landed on any other section of the coast than where they did, they never could have survived the winter and the Indians. A plague had struck this section of country two years before and wiped out the Indians but left in a cave some eight bushels of Indian corn, which the Pilgrims

used for seed for the season 1621, as they brought none from England.

On December 25th they commenced their first house. During that first winter they endured many hardships and lost their governor and one half the colony by death and the rest were so weakened that had the warlike Indians of the other parts of the coast been in this section of country, the Pilgrims could not possibly have survived.

In 1621 they secured a patent, granted by the English Council for New England (the new bull or Engle land).

Israel was to settle the coasts and waste places of the earth and drive the heathen before them. Was that promise fulfilled in the case of the Pilgrims when as Englishmen they settled New England? Can we do better than to take the words of the Pilgrims themselves? You can readily see that the heathen were driven out before them by the plague and the way made easy for them to build homes and become installed peacefully.

Nathaniel Morton, the historian addressed a Memorial to the Right Worshipful Thomas Prince, Governor of New England, published by E. P. Dutton & Co., N.Y., from which I have taken the following quotations:

"Have never seen nor heard of any [memorial writings] especially respecting this our plantation of

New Plimouth, which God hath honored to be the first in this land, I have made bold to present your Worships with, and to publish to the world, something of the very first beginnings of the great actions of God in New England, begun at New Plimouth.

"I should gladly have spoken more particularly of the neighboring united colonies, whose ends and aims in their transplanting of themselves and families, were the same with ours, viz. the glory of God, the propagation of the Gospel and enlargement of His Majesty's Dominions.

"And declaration of God's wonderful works for, by, and to his People in preparing a place for them by driving out the Heathen before them.. and making this howling wilderness a chamber of rest, safety and pleasantness."

As early as 1623 these Englishmen kept days for fasting, humiliation, and prayer and in 1637 passed an ordinance: "That it be in the power of the governor and assistants to command solemn days of humiliation, and also for thanksgiving," and since then their American descendants have eaten the November Thanksgiving turkey and cranberry, with or without the aforementioned humiliation and prayer attachments and in many cases I'm afraid have forgotten what their predecessors knew in their souls, namely, that God had been and still was looking after them and "prospering their undertakings," as your Great Seal of State says, above the allseeing eye.

Here are some paragraphs from Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers that is particularly appro