Bound to Do Good

March/April 2010

We welcome any sons of Adam who come in love among us and will not condemn, punish, banish, prosecute, or lay violent hands upon anyone, in whatever name, form, or title he might appear. We are true subjects of both the church and the state and we are bound by the law of God and man to do good unto all men, and evil to no man.

 

From the Flushing Remonstrance document drawn up and signed by 31 townsmen of the village of Flushing, New Netherland (New York), in 1657, to protest the persecution of Quakers by colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant. A U.S. postage stamp was issued in 1957 to commemorate the tricentennial of this event.

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