Episode 2 - The City on a Hill

https://www.patreon.com/Witch_Hunt Samuel Parris takes on the job as minister to Salem Village, a marginalized farming community split by rivalry and controversy. Salem Village is overshadowed by the larger and much more prosperous Salem Town, one of the two largest towns in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The colony is ruled by the Puritans, who have broken away from the Church of England and colonized New England in hopes of creating a model Christian society, a "City on a Hill”. Crisis evolves as newer generations lack the religious enthusiasm of the founders. Hardship presses down on the colony on many fronts: war with Native tribes,  disease epidemics, religious controversy, political and economic crisis. The entry of Parris into the powder keg that is Salem Village sets off a firestorm of persecution and retribution.  All music written by Brian O'Connell, except "Second Meter - Psalm 119", adapted from The Bay Psalm Book, 1698.  Episode 2 Parts:  Part I - The Parsonage - Parris, with his family and Tituba, come to Salem Village  Part II - The City on the Hill - the story of the Puritans and New England (Second Meter - Psalm 119)  Part III - The Great Migration (w/ some lyrics borrowed from Michael Wigglesworth’s poem: “God’s Controversy with New England”, 1662)  Part IV - Village vs. Town  Part V - The Parsonage Reprise (w/ text taken from the sermon book of Samuel Parris, 1690-1691)  https://www.patreon.com/Witch_Hunt The Great Migration  We have crossed the ocean of rebirth Planted seeds in this God given earth   Behold the pleasures of the fruitful fields Flowing full of all good things that they yield   Realize his will  Let the world see the city on the hill His word shall be fulfilled, his kingdom we shall build * Search your soul and pray for holy grace Confess your sins let the tears baptize your face   Only a very few are chosen to be saved The Devil takes the rest for his own to be enslaved   By searching deep within You might find a clue and then begin To see the holy truth, to realize your sin *  We brought ourselves to plant on the western shore Where none but beasts and warriors did swarm   One wave another follow and one disease begins Before another cease because we turn not from our sins   Our fruitful seasons cast in doubt Through great pain and dry and parching drought Defenders in a route, our hopes are all dashed out * The clouds gather as if we finally will see rain But for our sinfulness are scattered round again   We pray and fast as if to take a turn But we turn not and our fields and fruits will burn   Oh sinful land don’t think it strange If judgement comes down on you unless you change The Devil in a rage, affairs must rearrange Brian O'Connell - voice, bass guitar, fretless bass, 8-string bass, piccolo bass (solo on The Great Migration), 6 and 12-string acoustic guitars, keyboards, moog synthesizers, bass drum  Mike Harmon - drums, cymbals, percussion  Recorded at Studio Vinniechops and Wachusett Recording   Sources "A Storm of Witchcraft - The Salem Witch Trials and the American Experience“  by Emerson W. Baker, Oxford University Press, 2015   "Salem Possessed - The Social Origins of Witchcraft“  by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum, Harvard University Press, 1974   "The Puritans in America - Narrative Anthology” edited by Alan Heimert and Andrew Delbanco, Harvard University Press, 1985 Support the show