West Roxbury Magazine 1900 Classic Reprint

Download or read book West Roxbury Magazine, 1900 (Classic Reprint) written by John Henry Applebee and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from West Roxbury Magazine, 1900 This was the second meeting-house built by the First Parish of West Roxbury. The life of the parish sinks deep into the Puritan soil, whose harvest is the greatness of New England. Down even beneath the Puritanism of New England to the Puritanism of Old England the life roots sink, that the tree may be strong and healthy. The history Of the parish is honorable. It goes hand in hand with the history of the nation's founding. The men who gathered in that dismantled and fire-scarred meeting-house from Sabbath to Sabbath were the men who laid the nation's foundations. In I 776, a certain Declaration of Independence, of which the world has heard some what, was read in the quiet of a summer Sabbath morning from the pulpit. The congre gation that listened helped to make that declaration 'a reality. From the meeting-house steps, through the months that had gone before, could be heard the rumbling of the guns on Roxbury Heights that guarded the Neck, and kept the British locked up in Boston town. Within half a mile, back of Weld hill, was the very spot selected by Washington as the rallying point in case of compelled retreat. It commanded the road to Dedham, the depot of supplies for the Continental army, then encamped round about Boston. But there were men behind the guns that guarded the Neck, men who were in earnest; and the guns were served so well that retreat was unnecessary. So well, indeed, were they served that, as all the world knows, one day in March, I 776, the British sailed from Boston never to return. Such was the declaration that the people heard from the pulpit of the meeting-house, and such were some of its heroic results. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.