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Little Pilgrimages

The Romance of

Old New England
Churches

By
Mary C. Crawford

Author of

"The Bomance of Old New England
Booftrees," etc.

Illustrated

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HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

GIFT OF

BERNARD BERENSON
OCT 13 1938

Copyright, 1903
by

L. C. Page & Company

(Incorporated)
of

All rights reserved

Published August, 1903

Colonial Press

Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.

Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

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TO THE

Reverend Philo Woodruff Sprague

AND

Harriett Appleton,

HIS WIFE,

WHO THE ONE AS INSPIRING PREACHER, THE OTHER AS SYMPATHETIC COMRADEHAVE HELPED ME UNSPEAKABLY,

THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY

INSCRIBED

Spires whose silent fingers point to Heaven.

Wordsworth.

Respect for sacred things and sacred places is inseparable from good breeding. — Washington Irving.

If keeping holy the seventh day were only a human institution, it would be the best method that could have been thought of for the polishing and civilizing of mankind. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. Addison.

Of right and wrong he taught

Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;

And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached. - John Armstrong.

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Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. Lowell.

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