. Side glimpses from the colonial meeting-house . HESE side glimpses will disclose tothe reader some facts so small thatthey have not been thought worthyof mention by historians who have looked atcolonial New England with a broad small facts sometimes reveal large pic-tures of human life; they make the warpand woof of common history, while deeds ofarmies and of political parties make its sel-vages. Thorold Rogers, when lecturing atOxford on the economic interpretation ofhistory, said that every fact is infinitely val-uable. He would have us search for thefacts of the life of the EngH
. Side glimpses from the colonial meeting-house . HESE side glimpses will disclose tothe reader some facts so small thatthey have not been thought worthyof mention by historians who have looked atcolonial New England with a broad small facts sometimes reveal large pic-tures of human life; they make the warpand woof of common history, while deeds ofarmies and of political parties make its sel-vages. Thorold Rogers, when lecturing atOxford on the economic interpretation ofhistory, said that every fact is infinitely val-uable. He would have us search for thefacts of the life of the EngHsh people insuch sources as town registers, churchwar-dens accounts, court journals, church rec-ords, obsolete laws, tax lists, old newspapers, account books, diaries, letters, and all kindsof personal manuscripts. These are the origin of my Glimpses. Inoffering them I may have no other meritthan that of the bellringer on the high-way, who calls attention to his wares. Yetperhaps a passer-by will find some things ofinterest in Greystones, Short Hills, Essex County, New Jersey.
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