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Chapter 4 THE COUNCIL OF ORDINATION.Friends were assembled together; the Elder and Magistrate also Graced the scene with their presence, and stood like the Law and the Gospel… . After the Puritan way and the laudable custom of Holland. The Courtship of Miles Standish. A few days after the funeral, letters missive from the little society went out to all the neighboring churches, calling a council to ordain the Reverend Cecil Grey a missionary to the Indians. It was a novel thing, in spite of the noble example that Roger Williams had set not many years before; and the summons met with a general response. All the churches, far and near, sent delegates. If one could only have taken a peep, the day before the council, into the households of that part of New England, what a glim