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LAYS

OF THE

PILGRIM FATHERS;

COMPILED

IN AID OF THE FUND FOR COMPLETING

THE

Memorial Church of the Pilgrim Fathers,

IN SOUTHWARK.

BY

BENJAMIN SCOTT, F.R.A.S.,

CHAMBERLAIN OF LONDON, AND HON. SECRETARY OF THE WORKING MEN'S
EDUCATIONAL UNION.

"From seeds they sowed with weeping,

Our richest harvests rise;

We still the fruits are reaping

Of Pilgrim enterprise.

Then gratefully to them we'll pay

The debt of fame we owe,

Who planted freedom's sacred tree
Two hundred years ago."

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

MDCCCLXI.

280. c. 103.

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INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT;

AND APPEAL ON BEHALF OF THE MEMORIAL CHURCH OF THE PILGRIM FATHERS IN SOUTHWARK.

THIS is especially the age of memorials. A memorial, however, is a vain thing viewed merely as an expedient for preserving the memory of those of whom it is written, "the name of the wicked shall rot," and "their memorial is perished with them;" neither does it possess much value in relation to those benefactors of mankind whose deeds will necessarily be "had in everlasting remembrance" when the jealousies of contemporaries, and the passions and prejudices of party, shall have passed away; but, as the exponent of vital principles, or of truths discovered, vindicated, or rescued from neglect and oblivion, a memorial may be of service in fixing such principles and truths in men's minds, preserving definite impressions which the carelessness of mankind might otherwise efface.

We have, in many places, Scripture sanction for such memorials. Joshua, for instanc taking possession of the civil and religious privileges secured by

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