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Rev. Samuel W_iling. 63
Those eyes and cares have seen and heard great things
Done by thy Christ, showes he thy toil accepts,
Though thy weak flesh, weaker, to dust he'll bring
Thy quickened spirit, increast in his joy, leaps."
If an independent minister of the gospel in
i636 could have but little hope of peace in his
old English home, he might well have looked
forward to a stormy life in this colony.. Here
public, private, municipal and personal affairs
were in perpetual turmoil. The liberal Sir
Henry Vane had come over the preceding year
(i635), and had just been chosen governor. _
Fifteen great ships were floating in Boston
harbor the day on which Mr. Whiting landed;
and Sir Henry was attempting to settle a diffi-
culty which had arisen between certain shipmasters
and a commander of the marine de-
fences, and was trying to appease the loyalty of
these sturdy Englishmen, who were offended
because the flag of England was not allowed to
float over the King's fort in Boston harbor;
while some of the independent colonists were
unwilling that the royal cross, an offensive era-
Drake's Boston, I9z.