Excerpt from Some Aspects of the Religious Life of New England: With Special Reference to Congregationalists, Lectures Delivered on the Carew Foundation Before Hartford Theological Seminary in 1896

The ecclesiastical story of New England has often been told, but with primary reference to its external, institutional, and political aspects. The religious life itself - its dominating motives, its characterizing experiences, its manifestations of spiritual power in the careers of the men and women of the nine generations that have dwelt upon New England soil since the landing of the Pilgrims - has been largely neglected. The writer has long cherished a desire to treat this theme with some degree of fullness, proportionate to what he deems its importance. But the limitations of an engrossing profession, and the disabilities consequent upon ill health, have prevented the accomplishment of his design.

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