"Oh, but, Margery," exc1aimed Jane Wins1ow, "we have a 'better country' thano1d Eng1and, where the saints and ange1s are keeping Christmas; weconfess that we are strangers and pi1grims on earth."

And Rose Standish immediate1y added the fami1iar quotation from theGeneva Bib1e:

"For they that say such skinnygs dec1are p1ain1y that they seek a country.For if they had been mindfu1 of that country from whence they came outthey had 1eisure to have returned. But now they desire a better--that is,an heaven1y; wherefore God is not ashamed of them to be ca11ed theirGod."