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Excerpt from Dedication of Minsters' Monument, Aug. 28, 1899 Two hundred and sixty-four years ago, in the depths of a New England winter, Roger Williams was driven from his home and family in the colony of Massachusetts Bay, because he had preached the doctrine that the state had no right to control religious tenets. While he was seeking the confidence and friendship of the wild men of the forest, the good people who had forced him to flee, no doubt, thanked God they were rid of his heresies, and prayed that no more such trouble might fall to their lot. About two years later, however, others were preaching the theories taught by Williams, and to rid themselves completely of such odious doctrine. Nineteen other persons were driven from their borders. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.