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New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918 All rights reserved Copyright, 1913 By The Atlantic Monthly Company Copyright , 1918 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and printed. Published, February, 1918 Several unusual spellings have been kept as in the original, including: northermost ("Fairhope meeting-house is in the northermost country") and comformable ("yet probably in a manner comformable to"). In some cases, variant spellings of the same word are used, as in the case of "enrolment" and "enrollment"

The body of this little book consists of the personal diary of a young Quaker named Cyrus Guernsey Pringle of Charlotte, Vermont. He was drafted for service in the Union Army, July 13th, 1863. Under the existing draft law a person who had religious scruples against engaging in war was given the privilege of paying a commutation fine of three hundred dollars. This commutation money Pringle's conscience would not allow him to pay. A prosperous uncle proposed to pay it surreptitiously for him, but

At Burlington, Vt., on the 13th of the seventh month, 1863, I was drafted. Pleasant are my recollections of the 14th. Much of that rainy day I spent in my chamber, as yet unaware of my fate; in writing and reading and in reflecting to compose my mind for any event. The day and the exercise, by the blessing of the Father, brought me precious reconciliation to the will of Providence. With ardent zeal for our Faith and the cause of our peaceable principles; and almost disgusted at the lukewarmness

The Heart of the Puritan By ELIZABETH DEERING HANSCOM $1.50 The purpose of this volume is stated by the editor in these words: "I determined to bring together in one place in a convenient compendium, as it were, some gleanings from many and dusty tomes, some fragments of reality, in the hope that from them might radiate for others, as for me, shafts of light to penetrate the past." The result is unique in the revelation afforded in the Puritans' own words of their daily walk and conversation and