Today’s hymn is by Martin Rinkart: Now Thank We All Our God. And so I have highlighted the 1600’s as the period of the Early Settlers. But the Colonial Era has come to stand very definitively for the way of life prevalent in America in the 1700’s. In like manner, all who dwelt in colonies from their first institution onward may be called colonial. Colonies had been planted before the 1600’s began, and they continued-perhaps we might almost say they still continue-indefinitely. The age of American settlement is too broad for us to easily assign it a date. We do not have room to enter into this subject in full, but lest we should draw too rose-coloured a picture, it is right to remember that discovering America did not give Europe the right to possess America, when it was already occupied by others. The explorers and settlers found the Native Americans already occupying it. One fact which we should not pass over, is the note that this land was not actually unclaimed. To all of these people, America, with its vast resources, its acres upon acres of uncultivated land, its promise of religious liberty, must have seemed a dominion of boundless potential. Many came in search of religious freedom, and the ability to worship God without persecution. Others were drawn by the vast tracts of land available in America. Some were seeking to improve their lot in life. Different immigrants came for different reasons. By Courtenay History, Hymns, The Early SettlersĪs the European explorers pioneered along the newly discovered coast, and delved into the forests and plains which lay beyond it, they were quickly followed by a wave of settlers who desired not only to explore, but to build upon the American continents.
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