This is the lesson which the story of the Pilgrims teaches us. Let us heed it; and then, clasping hands with the martyrs and apostles, we too may press forward with our “garlands and singing-robes about us,” and by battling for Christ, insure for ourselves in the long hereafter a blessed rest and a fragrant memory. FOOTNOTES: [1] Palfrey, Hist. of New England, vol. 1, p. 101. [2] Perhaps this whole chapter of history is nowhere more graphically treated than in D’Aubigné’s Hist. of the Ref. in the Sixteenth Century. See also, Ranke’s Hist. of the Popes. [3] Uhden, New England Theocracy, p. 15. [4] Grote, Hist. of Greece. [5] Preface to Warburton’s Divine Legation. [6] Neale, Hist. of the Puritans. Collier’s Church Hist. Hallam, Const. Hist. of Eng. [7] See “An Account of the Principles and Practices of Several Non-conformists, wherein it appears that their religion is no other than that which is professed in the Church of England,” etc. By Mr. John Corbet; London, 1682. [8] Elliot, Hist. of New Eng., vol. 1, p. 43. [9] Fuller, Church Hist. Strype, Life of Parker. Heylin, Life of Lord Clarendon. [10] Palfrey, Hist. of New England, vol. 1, p. 113, note. [11] Palfrey, Hist. of New England, vol. 1, p. 114. [12] Hoyt, Antiquarian Researches. [13] Fuller, Ch. Hist., vol. 3. Rymer’s Fœdera, vol. 16, p. 694. [14] Goodrich, Ch. Hist. [15] Neale, History of the Puritans, vol. 1. Rushworth, Clarendon, etc. [16] Parliamentary History. [17] Strype, Life of Whitgift. Bradshaw, English Puritanism, 1605. [18] Calderwood, True Hist. of the Ch. of Scotland. Perry, Ch. Hist., vol. 1. [19] Ibid. [20] Fuller, Ch. Hist., vol. 3. Hume, Hist. of Eng., etc. [21] Barlow’s Account of the Hampton Court Conference. A copy of it is in Harvard college library. Harrington, Nugæ Antiquæ. [22] Palfrey, Hist. of New England, vol. 1, p. 131. [23] Bradford, Hist. of the Plymouth Plantation, p. 9. [24] Bancroft, Hist. United States, vol. 1, pp. 277, 278. [25] Bradford, Hist. Plymouth Plantation. [26] Ibid., Morton’s Memorial, Founders of New Plymouth, etc. [27] Bradford, Hist. Plymouth Plantation, pp. 10, 11. See also Neal’s Hist. of New England, vol. 1, p. 76. [28] Some authorities say 1602. Newell, for instance, p. 348, citing the British Quarterly Review. But so competent an authority as Bradford gives the date in the text. See also Young’s Chronicles, etc. [29] Bradford, p. 12. [30] Ibid. Young’s Chronicles of the Pilgrims. [31] Bradford, p. 12. [32] Stoughton, Spiritual Heroes, p. 72. [33] British Quarterly Review, vol. 1, p. 15. [34] Stoughton, Young, Bancroft. [35] Young’s Chronicles, Stoughton, Bradford, etc. [36] Stoughton. [37] British Quarterly Review, vol. 1, p. 15. [38] Stoughton, p. 74. [39] Young, cited in Stoughton, p. 74. [40] Young’s Chronicles, p. 29.