Everything connected with the colony was strictly practical.  The decision of certain points had unquestionably given the governor trouble, though he got along with them pretty well, on the whole.  A couple of young lawyers had desired to go, but he had the prudence to reject them.  Law, as a science, is a very useful study, beyond a question; but the governor, rightly enough, fancied that his people could do without so much science for a few years longer.  Then another doctor volunteered his services.  Mark remembered the quarrels between his father and his father-in-law, and thought it better to die under one theory than under two.  As regards a clergyman, Mark had greater difficulty.  The question of sect was not as seriously debated half a century ago as it is to-day; still it was debated.  Bristol had a very ancient society, of the persuasion of the Anglican church, and Mark’s family belonged to it.  Bridget, however, was a Presbyterian, and no small portion of the new colonists were what is called Wet-Quakers; that is, Friends who are not very particular in their opinions or observances.  Now, religion often caused more feuds than anything else:  still it was impossible to have a priest for every persuasion, and one ought to suffice for the whole colony.  The question was of what sect should that one clergyman be?  So many prejudices were to be consulted, that the governor was about to abandon the project in despair, when accident determined the point.  Among Heaton’s relatives was a young man of the name of Hornblower, no bad appellation, by the way, for one who had to sound so many notes of warning, who had received priest’s orders from the hands of the well-known Dr. White, so long the presiding Bishop of America, and whose constitution imperiously demanded a milder climate than that in which he then lived.  As respects him, it became a question purely of humanity, the divine being too poor to travel on his own account, and he was received on board the Rancocus, with his wife, his sister, and two children, that he might have the benefit of living within the tropics.  The matter was fully explained to the other emigrants, who could not raise objections if they would, but who really were not disposed to do so in a case of such obvious motives.  A good portion of them, probably, came to the conclusion that Episcopalian ministrations were better than none, though, to own the truth, the liturgy gave a good deal of scandal to a certain portion of their number. Reading prayers was so profane a thing, that these individuals could scarcely consent to be present at such a vain ceremony; nor was the discontent, on this preliminary point, fully disposed of until the governor once asked the principal objector how he got along with the Lord’s Prayer, which was not only written and printed, but which usually was committed to memory!  Notwithstanding this difficulty, the emigrants did get along with it without many qualms, and most of them dropped quietly into the habit of worshipping agreeably to a liturgy, just as if it were not the terrible profanity that some of them had imagined.  In this way, many of our most intense prejudices get lost in new communications.