New Castle, historic and picturesque . d anardent desire to reconstruct the towai generally, on the soap-boxmodel; and he succeeded to a deplorable extent. It was, how-ever, too early for a perfect success; and, let us thank heaven,it was before the days of the American renaissance. Our car-penter built a new church which is not remarkable; but it is notpretentious, and it has a simple and rather well-proportionedinterior, as the reader will see from the picture. Here one mayworship, undisturbed either by its ugliness or splendors; and ifhis mind wanders from his devotions at all, it can only
New Castle, historic and picturesque . d anardent desire to reconstruct the towai generally, on the soap-boxmodel; and he succeeded to a deplorable extent. It was, how-ever, too early for a perfect success; and, let us thank heaven,it was before the days of the American renaissance. Our car-penter built a new church which is not remarkable; but it is notpretentious, and it has a simple and rather well-proportionedinterior, as the reader will see from the picture. Here one mayworship, undisturbed either by its ugliness or splendors; and ifhis mind wanders from his devotions at all, it can only be inreverent recollection of the innumerable congregations whichhave here succeeded each other, coming together in companies,but destined to depart singly and unattended. From humble tenements aroundCame up the pensive train,And in the church a blessing foundThat filled their homes again. They live with God; their homes are dust; Yet here their children pray,And in this fleeting life-time trust To find the narrow way. SECULAR AFFAIRS. ECULAR affairs arc a much more safeand agreeable subject for the localhistorian than religious. I fear, insome of the preceding pages, I havefallen into a too gay and uncertainmanner, which immediately onewishes to atone for, by a surrenderto the spirit which is never very farfrom any one of us, but which hasits hardest encounter with man whenhe takes up the pen of a town his-torian. But the fault is not whollymine, if it has been difficult to main-tain an even and sober step among the religious annals of thecommunity; the fault is its own, for it is not a1)le to lay asidealtogether its weaknesses and absurdities, its human personality,even in the presence of the Impersonal. It has l)een difficult also, in the preceding pages, to separatethe history of New Castle from the general affairs of the Provinceof New Hampshire in the early times. We may naturally claimwhatever transpired here, as the building of forts, the entry andclearance of vessels,
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