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night”1). The waters of the Red Sea are separated, and they
pass in safety to the shores of Arabia. By Sinai’s Mount, through
the plain of Er-Rahah, they wander, forty years are they in
the Wilderness of Paran, and then, when their great prophet
leaves them for his lonely grave in the vale of Nebo’s Mount,
they journey on through to the Promised Land. Yes indeed,
the suöerings, the devotion to religion, the manifold intensity
of brotherly love of these poor persecuted Puritans reminds us
forcibly of the outcast sons of Israel. In our Imagination we
picture that last sad parting upon the sands of Holland, watch
breathlessly the course of the Mayflower as she is tossed by
the storms of the sea until she anchors in safety on the shores
of Cape Cod.
But it is the Catholic, and not the Puritan, with whom
we intend to treat. The sarae persecution to which the Pilgrim
Fathers were subjected, was administered in the same degree
to the papal adherents. They too, found no peace within the
bounds of England. They too, must look elsewhere than their
native country in which to establish an asylum for their faitli.
They had before them the example of the Pilgrims. Might they
not also be equally as successful beyond the seas ? Such seems
to have been the belief, desire, and aim of one of their great
leaders, and to the shores of Avalon was his attention and
energy first directed.
CH APTER III.
The First Lord Baltimore.
Avalon.
George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, was born at
Kipling near Richmond, in the north of England, sometime
during the year 15822). He was descended from a noble Flemish
1) Exodus, XIII. 22th.
2) I have been unable to ascertain the day on which he was born.
night”1). The waters of the Red Sea are separated, and they
pass in safety to the shores of Arabia. By Sinai’s Mount, through
the plain of Er-Rahah, they wander, forty years are they in
the Wilderness of Paran, and then, when their great prophet
leaves them for his lonely grave in the vale of Nebo’s Mount,
they journey on through to the Promised Land. Yes indeed,
the suöerings, the devotion to religion, the manifold intensity
of brotherly love of these poor persecuted Puritans reminds us
forcibly of the outcast sons of Israel. In our Imagination we
picture that last sad parting upon the sands of Holland, watch
breathlessly the course of the Mayflower as she is tossed by
the storms of the sea until she anchors in safety on the shores
of Cape Cod.
But it is the Catholic, and not the Puritan, with whom
we intend to treat. The sarae persecution to which the Pilgrim
Fathers were subjected, was administered in the same degree
to the papal adherents. They too, found no peace within the
bounds of England. They too, must look elsewhere than their
native country in which to establish an asylum for their faitli.
They had before them the example of the Pilgrims. Might they
not also be equally as successful beyond the seas ? Such seems
to have been the belief, desire, and aim of one of their great
leaders, and to the shores of Avalon was his attention and
energy first directed.
CH APTER III.
The First Lord Baltimore.
Avalon.
George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, was born at
Kipling near Richmond, in the north of England, sometime
during the year 15822). He was descended from a noble Flemish
1) Exodus, XIII. 22th.
2) I have been unable to ascertain the day on which he was born.