Puritan History
WOW! I am LOVING my online college history class! I am learning SO MUCH about the Puritans that I haven’t ever read before.
I wish I had time to give a good discourse on how the early Puritan women are very similar to the present day Reformed Christian Women who are really the force pushing the rear of the Patriarchy Movement. (It isn’t men who are pushing the patriarchy movement forward in the church, folks … it’s women … I know … I was a part of it!)
Oh I just can’t get over the similarities between today’s elite reformists and how they are simply parroting history! Too bad they aren’t learning from the past because Winthrop’s “City on a Hill” didn’t succeed! And neither will their picture perfect churches/families/businesses. Oh they might have some measure of success on the outside and for a time – everything has a season! – but ultimately, they will fail.
Harvesting Tobacco at Jamestown
AND…did you know that Jamestown’s success as a colony was dependant on their ability to commercialize tobacco?? You can thank Jamestown for second hand smoke related illnesses! Think we can sue the Brit’s for this??
Thats a great blog post, I sure enjoyed reading it. I hope you will post more like this??? Put more details in [I mean, without causing problems]!
Sarah,
This is VERY interesting! It has prompted me to do some research of my own comparing the two. Thanks for the great write up.
Melissa – do let us know what you learn – either way it would be interesting to read your thoughts!
Sarah – I am going to just post some of the Primary Source and Secondary Source Documents we are reading/studying in History. Later I will add my thoughts. I think I know what my thesis will be for our history paper that is due at the end of the semester!! YAY!
Am looking for a reference to or the story of “The Great New England Darkness,” which apparently happened in 1641 or 1642. The sky turned black for three days–Only church candles would burn, and then only in a greenish light. Sulphurous fumes issued from cracks in the ground and vast moanings of the Earth’s surface were heard, as well as the anguished cries of the wild creatures all about. On one of those days, the Sun rose only half-way and was red, and descended back below the sea’s horizon. The Colonists thought the end of the world had come and the churches were filled with praying people. On the fourth day the Sun rose as it should and was followed as usual by the Moon at night, which seemed brighter than usual–and it was full.
Supposedly, at this same time in England, snowdrifts filled London’s streets in June and July. Need contact info for Greenwich Royal Observatory to confirm this. Was this all part of a mini-Ice Age? I had this in an old book, but lost it.
Good Luck in your research and please let me know if anyone, such as Cotton Mather or the founding Puritan Fathers–who could have been alive then–commented on this unusual event–and what they said. I think it was real.
Thanks,
Jim Neel of Illinois.