Article October 15, 1938 Issue

The Lectures

Introductions to Lectures

with contributions from Bliss Knapp, Hans Kaufmann, Annie P. Eagle, J. Hamilton Lewis, W. H. Owen, Jr., Zoë P. Smits

Swampscott, Massachusetts (auspices of The Mother Church).

Lecturer: Frank Bell; introduced by Bliss Knapp, who said:—

The Pilgrim Fathers came to this country for religious freedom. As they approached the shores of Massachusetts Bay, they drew up a set of rules for their own government. This covenant was neither autocratic nor democratic, but it placed their civil government under the immediate direction of divine law. Such a form of government is known as a theocracy, and it was doubtless the first theocracy since the Hebrew Commonwealth instituted by Moses.

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