Congregationalists in America a Popular History of Their Origin Belief Polity
Congregationalists in America a Popular History of Their Origin Belief Polity
A E Albert Elijah Dunning
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He, and the followers who gathered around him, soon began to believe it to be their duty to denounce churches as idol temples and to cry out against those who worshiped in them. He commanded a magistrate who caused his arrest to " tremble at the word of the Lord, " and the magistrate gave him the nickname of Quaker, a title which was quickly taken up and popularly applied to him and his followers. Many of them were whipped, beaten, im- prisoned and otherwise abused in England. The news of this ...new sect soon reached New England. The memory of the troubles with Mrs. Hutchinson was yet fresh. New strife would threaten the independence of the still infant colonies. When some of the books of the Quakers appeared in Massa- chusetts in 1654 they were burned by order of the General Court. In 1656 two Quaker women came to Boston from the Barbadoes. Governor Endecott sent them back on the same ship which brought them. A 1 82 CONGREGATIONALISTS IN AMERICA. little later eight others arrived from England and were treated in the same way.
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