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
