eir religion was to simply take a look at their leisure activities. Families were investing in books about religion, such as daily devotionals. The younger generation attended church with the same attendance their parents did, but the church was now being separated between them and the older generation. The preachers now spoke to the people in two different ways. The ones that made the trip across the ocean felt that after fleeing the English homeland they were more spiritually clean after making a great voyage to be able to practice their religion. The younger generation had no experience like this to reassure themselves that they would be holy in the eye of God. The church leaders did not realize that the new generation did have the same exact morals as the generation before them. The younger generation did have their own problems that they had to deal with throughout their lives. There were many different things but they were all still different than the difficulties that their parents had gone through. One of these difficulties was the army of caterpillars that invaded the regions crops. They had to deal with a shortage of food and another breakout of smallpox all at the same time. This is why the preachers were convincing the common folk that they were not being as holy as their parents generation. They thought that God was bringing all of these disasters as a way of payback. The truth is that they were living their lives just as their parents had. The only difference is that they had a few years of bad luck that they had to fight through. In no way were they being any less holy than those who made the journey to this New England they were only being convinced that they were....
