Early Days of Church and State Maine (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Early Days of Church and State MaineThe history of the New England church-state has been written only in a fragmentary way. It has been observed that American Church History is virgin soil. Up to the present time the surface has only been scratched, mainly over the graves of the Puritan ancestors.l This statement is particularly true of that part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay which now lies in the State of Maine The stories of the Bible Commonwealths, of Roger Williams, and of Anne Hutchinson, of grim orthodoxy, and of fatal heresy are unfamiliar to no one. To a certain extent the story of the eighteenth century in Massachusetts (proper) has also been told. That vehement apostle of religious toleration, Isaac Backus, has given us a monumental work descriptive of the struggle of the Baptists of New England for religious liberty, and scattered volumes of town history and the like, give more of the story of the evolution of toleration.In that part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay now known as the State of Maine, the theme has, however, been a well-nigh neglected one. And yet it has an importance for several reasons. It supple ments and runs parallel to the story of the same period in Massachusetts proper, while it throws a new light on the colonization and settlement of new areas.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.