Author: Samuel Atkins Eliot

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 9780364002414

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Excerpt from Biographical History of Massachusetts, Vol. 6: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State For many years, however, and for long and successive generations, the peculiar pride of Massachusetts was her pulpit. The colony having been settled with a spiritual purpose and by people who were driven from their homes by reason of their religious scruples, the government assumed the form, at first, Of a practical theocracy. Its ministers in many instances were its magistrates, and what was spoken in the pulpit was Often put into an order of the court. None but church members, in colonial times, were allowed to vote, and the churches were the literal meeting-houses of the people, - the only places, indeed, where for many years the people came together as a body. There they worshiped upon Sunday and there they voted upon week days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Biographical History of Massachusetts, Vol. 6 written by Samuel Atkins Eliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Biographical History of Massachusetts, Vol. 6: Biographies and Autobiographies of the Leading Men in the State For many years, however, and for long and successive generations, the peculiar pride of Massachusetts was her pulpit. The colony having been settled with a spiritual purpose and by people who were driven from their homes by reason of their religious scruples, the government assumed the form, at first, Of a practical theocracy. Its ministers in many instances were its magistrates, and what was spoken in the pulpit was Often put into an order of the court. None but church members, in colonial times, were allowed to vote, and the churches were the literal meeting-houses of the people, - the only places, indeed, where for many years the people came together as a body. There they worshiped upon Sunday and there they voted upon week days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.