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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
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Title: Atlantic Monthly, Vol. XII. September, 1863, No. LXXI. A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics
Author: Various
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THE
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.
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VOL. XII.--SEPTEMBER, 1863.--NO. LXXI.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
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THE PURITAN MINISTER.
It is nine o'clock upon a summer Sunday morning, in the year sixteen hundred and something. The sun looks down brightly on a little forest settlement, around whose expanding fields the great American wilderness recedes each day, withdrawing its bears and wolves and Indians into an ever remoter distance,--not yet so far but that a stout wooden gate at each end of the village street indicates that there is something outside which must stay outside, if possible. It would look very busy and thriving in this little place, to-day, but for the Sabbath s