
Governor John Winthrop and the members of the Massachusetts Bay
colony observed a day of prayer and thanksgiving. Winthrop intended
this Puritan settlement to be a model Christian community that
would serve as a "city upon a hill," admonishing his colonists:
Wee must be knitt together in this worke as one man, wee
must entertaine each other in brotherly Affeccion, wee must
be willing to abridge our selves of our superfluities, for the
supply of others necessities, wee must uphold a familiar Commerce
together in all meekenes, gentlenes, patience and liberallity,
wee must delight in eache other, make others Condicions our
owne rejoyce together, mourne together, labour, and suffer together,
allwayes haveing before our eyes our Commission and Community
in the worke.
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