Reverend William George Tarrant (1853-1928), was the author of Unitarianism Restated (1904) and Unitarianism (1912). "In certain quiet nooks of Old England, and, by contrast, in some of the busiest centres of New England, landmarks of religious history are to be found which are not to be easily understood by every passer-by. He is familiar with the ordinary places of worship, at least as features in, the picture of town or village. Here is the parish church where the English episcopal order has succeeded to the Roman; yonder is the more modern dissenting chapel, homely or ornate. But, now and then, among the non-episcopal buildings we find what is called distinctively a 'Meeting House, ' or more briefly a 'Meeting, ' which may perhaps be styled 'Old, ' 'New, ' or 'Great'. "