Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1757 The Queen of Hell (28)

   "Luke" Chapter 10, Section 2 once wrote: The seventy disciples should be sent out like "workers of the crops, not the masters of the crops." They were sent out to announce that "the kingdom of heaven is coming soon".

  Although there are few pedestrians on the rugged and uneven roads, there is a kind of practitioners who still roam the wilderness in a horse-drawn carriage, that is, missionaries.

  Not only the Puritans, but also the priests of the Quakers and the Anglicans are active in this virgin land, but not all of them come to preach.

  Some people simply use their pastor status to start a fur trade, and some are not pastors at all. They can sell something to the country folks who don’t come into contact with outsiders.

No one has bought the indulgences, but there are still people buying the scriptures that can exorcise the devil and the holy water that can cure all diseases. Inchris Mather is selling the concession. At first, people bought this thing, and then bought There are fewer and fewer people, and the buyer is not blind. Look at the current situation in Massachusetts.

  As the parish and family fell into chaos, the people left, the church began to become empty, and more and more people outside the church questioned the trial. Although they also hope that the wizard will be eliminated as soon as possible, the manic people are wantonly distorting their innocent friends and neighbors.

  They knew the accused, because it was in the country and the people in the city did not know each other. Maybe they only knew each other. The next door moved out for some reason, and then another stranger came in.

There may be a day when a female police officer who is exhausted due to the extreme work pressure is tired to go home after her duty, and then opened the door of her apartment, only to find a stranger sitting on the sofa. Smirking and eating ice cream, she took out her gun without hesitation and killed the intruder.

When she even recovered in a daze, she realized that she should live on the fifth floor instead of the sixth floor, which means that she mistakenly took someone else’s apartment for her own. She broke into someone else’s house and took the owner of the house. It was killed.

If the court does not think about changing the way of trial, the trouble will increase unabated. When the judges let the children accuse innocent people, have they ever considered that it is not the defendant who is affected by the devil, and whether the girls who are victimized are themselves? The messenger of the devil?

  Some of these women are nearly 80, some are pregnant, and some are raising a nine-week-old baby. There is a Chelmsford father. His daughter was arrested and his son-in-law ran away. He had to raise his two-year-old and five-year-old grandsons by himself. He himself was short of clothes and food.

  A young man from Ipswich dropped the charges against Elizabeth Proctor in May. This risky and radical approach has won the support of many people. In order to save the tragic relatives and wives, people from Ipswich and Reading joined the protests. After all, it was the husbands who shared a bed with them. How did the marks on them come from? They know what the devil or wizard left behind.

  What they heard in the ears of those husbands was another version of the story. These prisoners did not have anyone like this, did not sign contracts, did not attend the demon assembly, did not succumb to the baptism of the devil, but they were scared to death.

The old and frail "witches" were not only left unattended, but they were also imprisoned for a long time in a smelly prison. Finally, some people surrendered. They confessed under duress, and the prisoners cried bitterly because they implicated others. , Past friends and interrogators also attacked them.

  The protesters who gathered together talked a lot about whether the new governor really wanted to protect the king’s innocent people? Rather, he wanted to defend his unstable political position. The link between the colony and Britain was like an elephant multiplying, almost every two years. Can't the Governor see it? The girls who claimed to have been tortured were radiant and looked healthy. On the contrary, the prisoners were not adult. It is said that there is a healer who can pick out the devil in the body by beating, why not Give those girls such a "treatment"?

  Phipps and the council of counselors have decided that Thursday, February 23, will be the Thanksgiving Day for the entire colony, hoping to shift the focus by celebrating joy and to turn the source of "all our misfortunes" to the French.

  But people are more concerned about when their wives can go home than they are about the governor’s public affairs. There are also increasingly high taxes. This money is said to be used to pay the bills of hotel owners, police officers, prison guards and blacksmiths. Why do they pay those who torture their family and friends to make their lives comfortable? ?

  What’s more, they heard that the judge allowed the law enforcement officers to illegally seize the inheritance. King Burroughs and Queen Martha Carrier, whom the devil had promised, were executed. Shouldn’t it be time to return to normal? Why are you still arresting people? All kinds of rumors and doubts forced Governor Phips to dissolve the court in mid-September, or to make others think that he dissolved the court.

  Regardless of the future fate of the witchcraft court, the social order must not suffer, let alone the sale of the charter. In that dark and mysterious season, no matter how people make accusations at will, there is one situation that never arises, that is, the son accuses the father.

At that time, the sons called fathers could not use "daddy" but "sir". No matter what the chaos outside, the patriarchy could not be shaken, even if the views of certain things between the father and the son were very obvious. Disagreements.

Regardless of how the publication ban is still in the hands of the authorities, the golden age of witchcraft here led to witchcraft literature. The work "The Case of Conscience" written by Inchris deals with abstract things and defends the innocent, by Cotton Mather. The "Miracle of the Invisible World" written by him shows that he is fascinated by supernatural affairs, and the sales of the latter far exceed the former.

  While Cotton Mather rode a horse and continued to search for evidence of witchcraft between the village and the town, Inchris Mather rode in a rumbling carriage and embarked on the road of investigation.

  A person caught in the witch-hunting frenzy is like a fire that will burn everything. This furious and wanton state must be curbed, and this is why the publication ban prohibits the printing of non-Mather and son publications.

The new Massachusetts government was single-handedly promoted by Inchris Mather. When the judges needed assistance, they would turn to him. Cotton Mather was more active on the first scene. Andover’s demon baptism was very much like a Baptist. In the ceremony, will there be a Baptist pastor who preaches equality for all during his sermon?

  People are not born equal, and they will not be so when they die. Why do we pretend to be equal while we are alive?

  Maybe someone will shout, shut up, shut up, get out, Satan, you are a liar, and God will appear someday.

  Here is a new question: Father, please tell me, have we got what we deserve? (Dowegotwhatwedeserve?)

  On the road, you may meet a missionary with a sweet voice and tirelessness. He will tell you something, but he will not promise you a country because he has become more cunning.

  Don’t forget, the snake in the Garden of Eden also tempted Eve with a sweet voice.

The full text of that chapter is that **** chose seventy disciples. He sent them like lambs among the wolves. He asked them not to bring money pouches, no pockets, no shoes, and no talk to anyone on the road, no matter what. If you enter a house, you must first say: May this house be safe. If there is a son of peace there, your peace will fall on him.

  If people accept you, you can eat whatever you give you, heal the sick in the city, and say to them, "The kingdom of God is near."

  Probably apart from the forums of the court or church, those "decent people" will have intersections with farmers and beggars who are less talented and educated than them. In fact, when they were young, they used to associate with those people. Only when the farmers knew and accepted them, they passed the power to them.

  There is no shortage of people who want to be leaders in this world. Who is Governor Phipps after he steps down? Stoughton or Andros?

But no matter who sits in that position, the first thing is to liquidate all the crimes in the Witchcraft Court. This sign has already emerged. The husbands who are trying to save their wives have united in protest. Phipps wants to dissolve the Witchcraft Court. It is so easy, unless he passes a bill to remove all judges from the responsibility.

Phipps couldn’t do this. His counselors were eager to see the pastors to determine the course of action. The pastor’s suggestion was to implement penitent fasts throughout the colony, stop all work, and pray that God would forgive his servants and people. error.

  This means that judges cannot be pardoned, even those who make false accusations must be pardoned together, even if some of them are not accusing others to survive, otherwise the bill will not pass. Why should we just pardon judges who made mistakes?

  For the passage of the bill, a huge controversy arose at the meeting. The colonial parliament was divided into two. After intense debate, the bill was passed by 33 to 29 votes.

  Samuel Sewell voted against it. He thinks the court should be dissolved immediately instead of dealing with the issue secretly as everyone thought. Even if there is no exemption bill, Sewell, as one of the judges, will be punished for it.

  Everyoneshouldgetwhattheydeserve.

  Whether it is a blessing or a curse, God has its own arrangements.

Stoughton also voted against it, but he did not approve of the dissolution of the court. This veteran politician surrounded many literati. Cotton Mather encouraged everyone to continue. This was considered a support for the trial. His father, Inchris. Mather stood with the governor.

  After the vote, Stoughton was not reconciled to the waste of his early efforts. He began to travel to Boston regularly, wanting to know whether Phipps changed his mind under the overwhelming publicity.

On October 28th, Stoughton went out under heavy rain and set off from Dorchester. When he tried to approach the road, the embankment was flooded, so he had to turn around, which made him miss the next day’s vote. , Phipps formally dissolved the hearing and sentencing court in his absence.

  Maybe the flood was a "sign", Stoughton should find another "calling".

  Demons exist, and they sometimes disguise themselves as priests and roam in the wilderness.

  Be careful, passers-by, don’t talk to people easily, because you don’t know who you are dealing with.

  (End of this chapter)