Puritan Letter
Back in the year sixteen hundred and thirty two, my pilgrim brothers and I began our long journey from the motherland, England, to the distant Americas all the way to a place we call Massachutes Bay. As we traveled our great leader, John Winthrop, gave us a wonderful sermon called "A Modell of Christian Charity." It was our goal to become, what he termed, "a City upon a Hill." This sermon was became our core beliefs in terms of are society and what we hoped to establish. First, we would create a city in the physical sense. Every settler would receive his own house and garden, which would have fields in which the entire community would aid in tending and all would use the land for the grazing of the communities' cattle. Our community would be the seat of t
Some say had he tried elsewhere he could have been successful. Men stopped concerning themselves with what was best for the community but started to only care about what was best for them. I hope you will fair better than I did. But alas, sadly our problems were not just limited to our ideological differences. After, time all people cared about was making money. I am now an old man, as I have spent some 34 years in the New World. We were not strong enough and could not resist the temptation of the devil. While at first we did enjoy limited success eventually everything fell apart. In addition, the grand community we hoped to build would also be excellant in the spiritual sense. Not only in this wonderful place would God be served as he should, but we would also serve our fellow men, as they should be served, as brothers. Yet he tried to accomplish this in a land were the chance for individuals to thrive was great.
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