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TROUBLOUS TIMES.
"ROGER WILLIAMS," said Grandfather, "did not keep possession of the chair a great while.

His opinions of civil and religious matters differed, in many respects, from those of the rulers and clergymen of Massachusetts.

Now, the wise men of those days believed that the country could not be safe unless all the inhabitants thought and felt alike." "Does anybody believe so in our days, Grandfather ?" asked Lawrence.
"Possibly there are some who believe it," said Grandfather; "but they have not so much power to act upon their belief as the magistrates and ministers had in the days of Roger Williams.

They had the power to deprive this good man of his home, and to send him out from the midst of them in search of a new place of rest.