For many of the European settlers in those early days, the Puritan Christian spirit was the guiding and comforting light in a new, dark, forbidding and untamed land.

• 对于许多欧洲移民来说，是早期基督教清教徒的精神给予他们精神上的安慰,是指引他们在黑暗、荒芜和未开发的土地上继续前行的明灯。