![]() Herbert, the celebrated English writes of religious works and poems, wrote in his poem, "The Church Militant:"Īnd no more prophetic words were ever spoken, for immediately thereafter persecution drove the Puritans from their native land, and the flight of religion to America had begun. ![]() The causes for settlement of most of the American colonies were religious, many people in the old countries of Europe being willing, nay, glad, to face the hardships of new lands and the cruelties of hostile tribes, rather than suffer the noble and lofty principles for which they stood to be scorned and mocked by those of different belief. ![]() also click on the thumbnails to see enlargements of the images and the back button to return to the first page)įrom the beginning of creation there has been no force which has played a greater part in the lives of nations and the history of races than the supernatural, and no religious rites or practices whose work has been grander or more sublime than that effected by Christianity. (This is a work in Progress, scroll down to find active Chapter pages as they are updated. Not all of the book is online yet, but keep checking back as I upload chapters. This section transcribed by Jennifer Novotny "A HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, AND ITS PEOPLE, 1914", ![]()
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