CONTENTS PAGI VI. VII. 85 THE INNER LIGHT. By Benjamin B. Trueblood, LL.D. 125 By Thomas R. Slicer, M.A. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING AND THE GROWTH OF SPIRITUAL CHRISTIAN- ITY. By William W. Fenn HORACE BUSHNELL AND PROGRESSIVE OR- WILLIAM BREWSTER AND THE INDEPENDENTS. PURITANISM is one of the cardinal words in the history of the English race. The Puritan movement was the new birth of England. It was the religious and political equivalent of the brilliant flowering of English genius in the Elizabethan age. It should have been contemporary with that; but it was held back for a generation by royal and ecclesiastical tyranny, only to come with the greater energy when it did come. The new birth of England, it was the birth of New England. The same great movement planted New England and created the English Commonwealth. The leaders there and here were actuated by the same motives and working for the same great ends. One and the same spirit was in Sir John Eliot, Hampden, Pym, Cromwell, Milton, and Vane, and in Bradford, Brewster, Winthrop, Cotton, Hooker, and Roger Williams. It was largely accident which determined who should stay there and who should come here. "New England," says Maurice, " was a translation into prose of the dreams which haunted Milton his whole life long." Massachusetts was a refuge, provided in |