Pilgrims Wanted for Hazardous Journey

Shackleton’s ad, “Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey” is legendary (and unfortunately mythical). But this advertisement for men to join Pilgrims is very real. In the introduction to the first printed sermon from New England, The Sin and Danger of Self-Love, by Robert Cushman, he described the men they were looking for to add to the Plymouth colony:

[M]en which … look after great riches, ease, pleasures, danties, and jollity in this world … I would not advise them to come there, for as yet the country will afford no such matters: but if there be any who are content to lay out their estates, spend their time, labours, and endeavours, for the benefit of them that shall come after, and in desire to further the gospel among those poor heathens, quietly contenting themselves with such hardship and difficulties, as by God’s providence shall fall upon them, being yet young, and in their strength, such men I would advise and encourage to go, for their ends cannot fail them.