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 triumph" (with tears the maestro said), "For no gift of king or
princes, no praise could please me more. Than this living mat of flowers
a child laid at my door." * * * * * THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN
MASSACHUSETTS. By Thomas W. Bicknell, LL.D. The act of banishment which
severed Roger Williams from the Massachusetts Colony, in 1635, was the
means of _advancing_, rather than _hindering_, the spread of the
so-called _heresies_ which he so bravely advocated. As the persecutions
which drove the disciples of Christ from Jerusalem were the means of
extending the cause of Christianity, so the principles of toleration and
of soul-liberty were strengthened by opposition, in the mind of this
apostle of freedom of conscience in the New World. His Welsh birth and
Puritan education made him a bold and earnest advocate of whatever truth
his conscience approved, and he went everywhere "preaching the word" of
individual freedom. The sentence of exile could not silence his tongue,
nor destroy his influence. "The divers new and dangerous opinions" which
he had "broached and divulged," though hostile to the notions of the
clergy and the authorities of Massachusetts Bay, were at the same time
quite acceptable to a few brave souls, who, like himself, dared the
censures, and even the persecutions, of their brethren, for the sake of
liberty of conscience. The dwellers in old Rehoboth were the nearest
white neighbors of Roger Williams and his band at Providence. The
Reverend Samuel Newman was the pastor of the church in this ancient
town, having removed with the first settlers from Weymouth in 1643.
Learned,
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