There is a popular sentiment circulating throughout high schools and colleges that the original colonists were only secular, irreligious, rapacious.  However,  their own testimonials, from two primary sources, show that they were not.  True, they made mistakes, and some were greedy, but they repented of their flaws after twelve years of hardships. First, they tried early on to build a church of brick but settled for one made of wood: "true it is that there was a Brick Church intended to be built, but not so much as the foundation thereof ever finished, but we contenting ourselves with a church of wood[.]" Next, they thanked God for the help of the natives:  [S]o that had not God, by his great providence, moved the Indians, then our utter enemies, to bring us relief, we had all utterly by famine perished. How unable so small a Company of people, so poorly sent over, were to make way for such as should follow,...(Read Full Post)