Date of Award

7-1936

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Raphael N. Hamilton

Second Advisor

William J. Grace

Abstract

In the early seventeenth century the steep, austere hills of New England provided a stage set for the enactment of one of the most inspirational dramas that that portion of the New World and yet beheld. In a certain sense it might be termed a tragic-historical drama - a series of successes and reversals in the church in pioneer America. The protagonist was faith; that deep, all absorbing and potent factor that created such eminent actors as Father Thury, Bigot, and Rasle - a diminutive host of chosen soldiers mustered under Christ's banner, true builders of a nation. their zeal, their exemplary lives, their hardships, their discouraging prospects, their little victories have offered the basis for this thesis. it was with untiring egorts and an enduring interest that the data for this work was gleaned from rather meagre sources.

Comments

A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of the College of Liberal Arts of Marquette University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Philosophy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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