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    The Old Peabody Pew, a Christmas romance of a country church
    The Old Peabody Pew, a Christmas romance of a country church
    The Old Peabody Pew, a Christmas romance of a country church
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    The Old Peabody Pew, a Christmas romance of a country church

    By Kate Douglas Wiggins

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    Long story for children and teens. According to Wikipedia: "Kate Douglas Wiggin ( 1856 -1923) was an American children's author and educator. Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin was born in Philadelphia, and was of Welsh descent. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878 (the Silver Street Free Kindergarten). With her sister in the 1880s she also established a training school for kindergarten teachers. She was also a writer of children's books, the best known being The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887) and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455371099
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      The Old Peabody Pew, a Christmas romance of a country church - Kate Douglas Wiggins

      THE OLD PEABODY PEW:  A CHRISTMAS ROMANCE OF A COUNTRY CHURCH BY KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Other Christmas stories by Wiggin:

      The Birds' Christmas Carol

      The Romance of a Christmas Card

      The Old Peabody Pew: a Christmas Romance of a Country Church

      feedback welcome: info@samizdat.com

      visit us at samizdat.com

      Dedication

      CHAPTER 1

      CHAPTER 2

      CHAPTER 3

      CHAPTER 4

      CHAPTER 5

      CHAPTER 6

      CHAPTER 7

      CHAPTER 8

      Dedication

      To a certain handful of dear New England women of names unknown to

      the world, dwelling in a certain quiet village, alike unknown:-

      We have worked together to make our little corner of the great

      universe a pleasanter place in which to live, and so we know, not

      only one another's names, but something of one another's joys and

      sorrows, cares and burdens, economies, hopes, and anxieties.

      We all remember the dusty uphill road that leads to the green

      church common.  We remember the white spire pointing upward against

      a background of blue sky and feathery elms.  We remember the sound

      of the bell that falls on the Sabbath morning stillness, calling us

      across the daisy-sprinkled meadows of June, the golden hayfields of

      July, or the dazzling whiteness and deep snowdrifts of December

      days.  The little cabinet-organ that plays the doxology, the hymn-

      books from which we sing Praise God from whom all blessings flow,

      the sweet freshness of the old meeting-house, within and without--

      how we have toiled to secure and preserve these humble mercies for

      ourselves and our children!

      There really IS a Dorcas Society, as you and I well know, and one

      not unlike that in these pages; and you and I have lived through

      many discouraging, laughable, and beautiful experiences while we

      emulated the Bible Dorcas, that woman "full of good works and alms

      deeds."

      There never was a Peabody Pew in the Tory Hill Meeting-House, and

      Nancy's love story and Justin's never happened within its century-

      old walls; but I have imagined only one of the many romances that

      have had their birth under the shadow of that steeple, did we but

      realize it.

      As you have sat there on open-windowed Sundays, looking across

      purple clover-fields to blue distant mountains, watching the palm-

      leaf fans swaying to and fro in the warm stillness before sermon

      time, did not the place seem full of memories, for has not the life

      of two villages ebbed and flowed beneath that ancient roof?  You

      heard the hum of droning bees and followed the airy wings of

      butterflies fluttering over the gravestones in the old churchyard,

      and underneath almost every moss-grown tablet some humble romance

      lies buried and all but forgotten.

      If it had not been for you, I should never have written this story,

      so I give it back to you tied with a sprig from Ophelia's nosegay;

      a spring of rosemary, that's for remembrance.

      K. D. W.

      August, 1907

      CHAPTER 1

      Edgewood, like all the other villages along the banks of the Saco, is full of sunny slopes and leafy hollows.  There are little, rounded, green-clad hillocks that might, like their scriptural sisters, skip with joy, and there are grand, rocky hills tufted with gaunt pine trees--these leading the eye to the splendid heights of a neighbour State, where snow-crowned peaks tower in the blue distance, sweeping the horizon in a long line of majesty.

      Tory Hill holds its own among the others for peaceful beauty and fair prospect, and on its broad, level summit sits the white- painted Orthodox Meeting-House.  This faces a grassy common where six roads meet, as if the early settlers had determined that no one should lack salvation because of a difficulty in reaching its visible source.

      The old church has had a dignified and fruitful past, dating from that day in 1761 when young Paul Coffin received his call to preach at a stipend of fifty pounds sterling a year; answering "that

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