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The Desolate Wilderness
Wall Street Journal ^ | 1620 | Nathaniel Morton

Posted on 11/28/2002 8:00:09 AM PST by APBaer

Edited on 04/22/2004 11:47:35 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

So they left that goodly and pleasant city of Leyden, which had been their resting-place for above eleven years, but they knew that they were pilgrims and strangers here below, and looked not much on these things, but lifted up their eyes to Heaven, their dearest country, where God hath prepared for them a city (Heb. XI, 16), and therein quieted their spirits.


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TOPICS: Activism/Chapters
KEYWORDS: pilgrims; plymouthcolony; thanksgiving

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