A City upon a hill is a phrase from the Parable of Salt and Light in Jesus's Sermon on the Mount. Jesus tells his listeners they are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill and cannot be hidden. The passengers of the Arbella left England with a great vision. They settled in Massachusetts in the 1630's to be an example for the rest of the world. John Winthrop was their future governor. This great experiment seemed to be a success for the first few decades. But in the end, humans still being human prone to making mistakes had worldly concerns that led to their decline in religious fercer as time went
