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ravage the coast. It were bad enough in
similar circumstances to travel in a well-known
region; but how much worse when it is a
question of seeking to settle on an entirely
unknown shore.
They saw around them only a bare, cheerless
country, filled with wild animals and inhabited
by men of questionable disposition and in
unknown numbers. The country was frozen and
overgrown with woods and thickets. The
whole aspect was wild; and behind them lay
the measureless ocean, which severed them from
the civilized world. Comfort and hope were
to be found only in turning their gaze
heavenward.
That they did conquer that ungrateful land
and open the way for the boundless stream of
immigration which for wellnigh three centuries
has unceasingly poured in, must find its
explanation in the faith that upheld their ways
amid the dangers of the wilderness, amid the
hunger, cold, and all manner of disheartening
things, and gave them that power which
removed mountains and made the desert bloom.
These Puritans, strong in faith, were the
founders of the New World’s greatness; and
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