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Title: Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ...
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Owens, John Algernon Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
Subjects: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives
Publisher: Philadelphia : P.W. Ziegler
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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religious woman. The Presbyterians ofthat day and that race were by no means a lugubriouspeople. They did not necessarily view their lives as amere vale of tears, nor did they think the night sideof nature the most sacred one. The Rev. Mr. Mor-rison, one of their divines, tells us that the thought-less, the grave, the old and the young, alike enjoyedevery species of wit, and though they were thought-ful, serious men, yet they never lost an occasion thatmight promise sport, and he very pertinently asks, what other race ever equaled them in getting upcorn-huskings, log-rollings and quiltings?—and whathosts of queer stories are connected with them !Fond of fun, there was a grotesque humor about them,which in its way has, perhaps, never been equaled. It was the sternness of the Scotch Covenantersoftened by a centurys residence abroad, amid perse-cution and trial, united to the comic humor and pathosof the Irish, and then grown wild in the woods amongtheir own New England mountains.(34)
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THE LITTLE DEACON. 35 Such was the Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism of thatperiod. Other cheerful influences were also at work in thetwo villages that comprised the town of Fowler.The only house of worship in the town proper was aUniversalist church, and the people were compelled forthe most part, notwithstanding their various creeds,to worship in a common temple where the asperities ofsectarian difference had no existence. Ward Glazier, at that time, was an adherent ofUniversalism, while his wife held evangelical views.But he was ever readv to ride with his wife and sonto the church of her choice at Gouverneur, a distanceof six miles, and returning, chat with them pleasantlyof the sermon, the crops, the markets and the gossipof the town. In truth, young Willards early home was a goodand pleasant one, and having learned, under hismothers careful training, to read exceedingly well, fora boy of his age, by the time he reached his fourthyear he became noted for his inquiring disposition, his

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