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Thursday, November 26, 1953
WILLIAM BRADFORD, PILLAR OF
PLYMOUTH
By W. BRI CE BELL, in The Kiwinis Magazine
Ihe lirst experience with corn had produced an abundant
harvest. “And thus.” Bradford noted with delight, “they
found the Lord to be with them ...”
-All great and honorable actions
are accompanied by great difficul
ties and must be both enterprised
and overcome with great courage.”
These were the words of young
William Bradford, who stood before
his brothers-in-exile in Leyden,
Holland, and sought to persuade the
fainthearted to risk the perils of the
New World. This was to be his con
stant philosophy of government
during the more than thirty years
he served as leader of the colony at
Plymouth. And because this self-
educated Yorkshire yeoman had the
courage to overcome great diffi-
n; tics. Plymouth survived.
All the odds were against it from
‘rv start The colony owed a stag-
gc ring debt in London. The men
A cre not free individuals but bound
by contract to seven years of com
munistic life. Not expecting to farm,
ihty brought no implements or do
mestic animals to the New World.
Worst of all, the colony was not 4
body of like-minded men; the Pilj
grims had enemies, even aboard thtb
Mayflower.
As Governor, William Bradford
unified the dissecting elements of
the community, saved the church
from destruction, ^>roke the yoke of
communism, made the coloiiy self-
governing and self-supporting, and
eventually paid off the last dollar of
its debt. There is nothing in the his
tory of America’s beginningc to ex
ceed his achievement.
.Plymouth survived as an inde
pendent colony for seventy-Vve*
yeftfs after its founding. In 1692,
thirty-five years after Bradford's
death, it was assimilated into the
powerful Massachusetts Bay Col
ony and from this alliance grew the
United States of America. The con
tributions of tiny Plymouth—free
dom of worship and a democratic
form of government already tested
and proved—were to benefit more
generations of mankind than Brad
ford could have known. Yet, in
1630, on learning, that Boston had
adopted the Congregational faith of
the Pilgrims, he wrote these signifi
cant lines: “Thus out of small be
ginnings greater things have been
produced . . . and as one small can
dle may light a thousand, so the
light here kindled hath shone unto
many, yea in some sort to our
whole nation.”
Petition Seeks
School Established
In Southern
Section of County
Citizens of the Southern section
ATTENDS MEETING
Dr. J. W. Jones of this city, was
in Columbia November 12 to attend
a meeting of the South Carolina
Chiropractic Association, and took
part on the program, giving the in
vocation.
Dr. C. J. Hart of Laurens, who
also attended the meeting, was re
elected as secretary for the asso
ciation.
SURVEYING
J. R. CRAWFORD
CLINTON, 8. C.
Phone 3493 Joanna
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cures, oral treatments for diabetes, cancer remedies,'imd
countless other nostrums. Please remember that there
are no secrets in clinical medicine. As soon as the value
of a remedy is satisfactorily proved, it becomes the com
mon knowledge of all physicians. Don’t be misled. When
you need medical care, consult your own physician. When
he writes a prescription, bring it to us to be filled.
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CALLING WILD
BILL ELLIOT
William Bradford was a learned of the county have circulated a pe-
and a practical man. In rendering a tition addressed to the board of
decision that affected the colonists trustees of School District No. 56,
he could back up his judgment with asking that necessary step;; be tak-
a maxim from Seneca or Plato. He en to establish and create'for that
could also hew timbers and dress section a centrally located consoli-
stone and hoe corn. His formal dated school, grades one through
schooling was so slight that no rec- twelve, and sets forth several rea-
ord of it exists, but at twelve he sons their request is being made,
became an avid reader, often taking The petition has been circulated
his Bible with him to the Yorkshire .among citizens and taxpayers ofj
grazing lands, where he went to communities of Mountville, Cross
herd sheep. He taught himself Hill, Waterloo, Lisbon, Rock Bridge, i
Latin and Greek, and out of the Mt. Pleasant and Center Point. It I
money he earned in Holland as a was stated yesterday by spokesmen !
weaver acquired a fine library for the group that with very few 1
which he brought to Plymouth. At exceptions it has been signed by j
sixty-five he began the study of residents of the involved area.
Hebrew to satisfy “a longing desire i n the near future, they stated, a
to see with my own eyes something meeting will be called of' the board
of that ancient language and holy 0 f trustees, the county delegation
tongue in which the laws and or- an{ j hoard of education for consid-
acles of God were writ. orations of the request.
A man of deep faith, Bradford The following petition, generally i
also had his share of common sense, signed, has been circulated in the I
He believed in the unlimited aid of section, which is a part of District
Divine Providence, but he felt that No. 56:
it was best invoked by the man who. To: Messrs. J. J.. Cornwall,
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put his own shoulder to the wheel.
As an orphan boy, an outcast adopt-1
ed begrudgedly by relatives, he had
found a refuge in the Puritan doc
trine that all true believers are
equal before God. At sixteen he be
came a regular attendant at the
secret meetings held by the Sepa
ratists for prayer and discussion ini
the village of Scrooby. When perse-'
Chairman,
Jake Rasor,
Secretary,
George M. Huguley,
James Addison, and
John B. Cooley,
Members of the Board of Trus
tees of Laurens County School
District No. 56:
We, the undersigned, being resi-
cution broke up the group he flcci d ents D f ^ Southern section of
with its remnants to Ho.land but Laurens County, lying largely with-1
n0t j 0re u 6 be en arrested, jn Laurens County School District;
marched m humiliation thiough the from the particular area or.
streets and J ai lod for two months commun ity hereinafter designated!
The rest of his life revolved around anc j being patrons of the public
.us religion. I rom the age of thirty- sc b 00 i s> hereby petition youri
one until his death he fought unre * honorable body to take all neces-
mr.tingly to found and preserve a sar y an( j p r0 p er s teps to establish
and create for this section a cen-
Christian commonwealth in the
wilderness of North America. , t ra lly located, consolidated school,
He became governor of grades one through twelve, for the
in the spring of 1621, when the very j following reasons:
' life of the colony hung by a slender , . . .
'thread. The terrible sickness of thej \ enrollment present and
j first winter had taken its toll, i ea v- P otential ' w ° uld J ust ‘ f y the sch ° o1
! ing fifty-six living persons and fr ° m ^ ve, 7 standpoint,
forty-six tragic mounds of fresh
earth on Burial Hill. Huddled in a|
deserted Indian cornfield between
the ocean and the forest were a few
i miserable huts of tree branches
daubed together with (clay. Except
for the dwindling provisions in a ‘
! storehouse twenty feet square, the!
onlv bulwark against starvation
was the few ears of corn they had 1 ' ALL KINDS OF PRINTING
taken from Indian graves. —EXCEPT BAD
2. The location would shorten the
distances traveled by the children,!
and reduce the existing hardship
and danger in that connection on
children and parents.
3. The people in this section feel
a strong need and desire for such a
school.
The Pilgrims had made up their
, minds to stick it out or die trying.
Their determination was inspired
i partly by religion: myph of it was
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the plain stubbornnesfe of youth.
Though tradition says otherwise,
the average age of all adult males
in Plymouth in 1621 was around
thirty. They would have smiled,
these hard-muscled young zealots
who felled trees and chopped seed
corn into the ground, had they
foreseen that they would be re
membered in history as benign old
men.
By the end of the first summer
they had hacked out their first toe
hold on the continent. They had
built seven dwellings and four pub
lic houses of timber and planks,
with thatched roofs. In the store
house lay piles of beaver pelts trad
ed from friendly Indians. The first
experiment with com had produced
an abundant harvest. “And thus,”
Bradford noted with delight, “they
found the Lord to be with them in
all their ways.” Wishing to share
their blessings, and remembering
the Dutch custom of an annual fall
Thanksgiving, he declared a holi-
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