942,84 C899r 1907 TO THE Reverend Philo Woodruff Sprayue WHO AND Harriett Appleton, HIS WIFE, THE ONE AS INSPIRING PREACHER, THE OTHER AS SYMPATHETIC COMRADE HAVE HELPED ME UNSPEAKABLY, THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY Spires whose silent fingers point to Heaven. 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. Page Frontispiece The Reverend Arthur Browne (See 14 60 Old church at Pepperell, dedicated March 8, 1770, by Parson Emerson St. John's Church, Portsmouth, N. H. (1807). The first church, built on the same site, was erected in 1732 The Old South Church, Boston, Mass. 100 Old church on the site where John 82 Eliot preached 130 The birthplace of John Adams, Quincy, 170 Palace," Cambridge, Mass. 220 Mills, Me. (1807). Church of the |