A HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY BERNARD BERENSON OCT 13 1938 Copyright, 1903 L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated) All rights reserved Published August, 1903 Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. D TO THE Reverend Philo Woodruff Sprayue AND Harriett Appleton, HIS WIFE, WHO- THE ONE AS INSPIRING PREACHER, THE OTHER AS SYMPATHETIC COMRADEHAVE HELPED ME UNSPEAKABLY, THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED 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. Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. — Lowell. |