Chartiers Church and Its Ministers: An Historical Address (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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We look out upon an almost unbroken wilder ness. We see here and there a log cabin, and find a few scattered villages. The inhabitants, who are of scotch-irish descent, have mostly come from Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia. They are men strong in body, in mind, and in their religious convictions; men who love the Bible, the Sabbath, and the house of God; men who detest every form of civil and ecclesiastical tyranny; men who are not unmindful of the cruel persecutions their fathers endured for conscience sake, in the land of their nativity; men who are determined, at an early day, to renounce their allegiance to the British throne, and set up for themselves a free Republic in which there shall be no established Church.

We watch the hardy pioneers performing herculean tasks, subduing the forests, and inclosing and cultivating the land which they have cleared. We see the merciless Indians, armed with bow and arrow, knife and tomahawk, roaming through the woods and prowling around the settlements, ready to murder the white man and his family, set fire to his cabin, and drive away his cattle. We observe many bridle-paths throughout the country, and men engaged in transporting merchandise, not in wagons, but chiefly on the backs of horses and mules. We look in vain for a school house. The youth receive some instruction, but it is imparted by the pioneers.

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