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Penn bade the colonists farewell, with the brightest hopes for the
future, saying, "My love and my life are to and with you, and no water
can quench it, nor distance bring it to an end. I have been with you,
cared for you, and served you with unfeigned love, and you are beloved
of me and dear to me beyond utterance. I ... |
"Lord chief justice is making his campaign in the west," wrote James II.
to one in Europe, referring to Jeffries' circuit for punishing the
insurgents. "He has already condemned several hundreds, some of whom we
are already executed, more are to be, and the others sent to the
plantations." The prisoners condemned to tr... |
The captain then asked permission to talk with the father. The
permission was given by Hull, for he saw that his slave had the sympathy
of all present, and it would not be safe to refuse him some privileges.
The master of the vessel and the magistrate who had superintended the
selling of the slaves for the crown found ... |
"Whither shall I go?""To Massachusetts. I have relatives in Salem, where you will be safe.""Safe!"He repeated the word as if it were a glorious dream--a vision never to
be realized."Yes, you will be safe; but as you must make the journey through a vast
forest, you will need to be refreshed by rest and food."The wild-ey... |
Old Tituba was a horrid-looking creature. If ever there was a witch on
earth, she was one, and as she crouched in one corner, smoking her clay
pipe, her eyes closed, telling her weird stories to the girls, no one
can wonder that they were strangely affected."Now, chillun, lem me tell ye, dat ef ebber a witch catches ye... |
Before more could be said, there came a rap at the door, and Charles
Stevens, the lad who succored the wounded stranger that had so
mysteriously disappeared, entered. Charles was almost a man, and bid
fair to make a fine-looking fellow. He was tall and muscular, with bold
gray eyes and a face open and manly. He had los... |
"Oh, nonsense, Pete. Get the wood, and don't let such foolish notions as
ghosts enter your mind."Pete reluctantly obeyed, and Charles went into the house where was an
old lamp which had been left there by hunters. It was nearly full of
oil, and he lighted it by aid of his flint and steel.Some rude benches and three-leg... |
"I have an uncle in Virginia, who was sorely tried by witches. One witch
in the neighborhood, especially, did grievously torment him. He would go
to his door and see his field full of cattle; but on entering the field
itself, no cattle were to be seen. Knowing full well that he was
bewitched, he loaded his gun with a s... |
"In my agony of spirit, I seized the tree nearest me in my mouth, and
bit it so hard that I broke out the tooth," and here the narrator
exhibited his teeth, one of the front ones being gone. "You see the
tooth is missing. A week later I went to the Ames Meeting House and
found the tooth sticking in the tree."After they... |
Arriving at Hartford on the 31st of October, 1687, Andros found the
general assembly in session in the meeting-house. The members received
him with the courtesy due to his rank. Before that body, with armed men
at his back, he demanded a formal surrender of the precious charter into
his hands.The members of the assembl... |
"I have not," answered one."Nor I.""Nor I," answered each and every one."It was the boy," cried the enraged governor. "I saw him; he struck my
hand in the dark; yet I knew it was he. Where is he? Whose son is he?"Every member of the assembly shook their heads."We do not know him. He does not live in Connecticut.""Where... |
"The New Englanders are a people of God settled in those, which were the
devil's territories, and it may easily be supposed that the devil is
exceedingly disturbed, when he perceives such people here, accomplishing
the promises of old, made unto our blessed Jesus, that he should have
the uttermost parts of the earth fo... |
"Fain would I have done so, had it been possible; but her appearance
took from me the power of speech, and I was dumb. She sat upon me,
grinning at me, and she said:"'Would ye speak if ye could?'"Then at last a yellow bird came in at the window and whispered some
words in her ear, and the shape flew away with a black m... |
At this moment, Cora, who had followed behind them and overheard their
strange words, came forward and asked:"Father, what do you mean?""Nothing, child. There, let us return to the house, for it is growing
late."Then, as they walked up the gentle slope to the cabin of the widow, the
maiden repeated to herself:"But he d... |
Rufus Stevens, an uncle of Charles Stevens, the youth of Salem, was
living in New Jersey, when Lord Berkeley, disgusted by the losses and
annoyances which the ownership of the colony brought upon him, sold his
interests in the province to John Fenwick and Edward Byllinge, English
Friends, or Quakers, for the sum of fiv... |
At this period, North Carolinia did not contain four thousand
inhabitants. They carried on a small trade in tobacco, maize and fat
cattle with the merchants of New England. This sort of smuggling was
perhaps excusable, when we consider the grinding navigation laws of the
monopolists. The little vessels, trading between... |
"When?""On last Lord's day he did upbraid us as the emissaries of the Devil,
and Goody Nurse avowed if the minister did not cease to upbraid her in
church, she would absent herself.""That would be a violation of law. All are compelled to attend worship
on Lord's day."She was silent for several moments and then remarked... |
That Charles Stevens was no false prophet, subsequent history has fully
proven. Coming events seemed to cast their dark shadows before. In New
England, there had been a preparation for this stage in the temper with
which the adventurers had arrived in the country, and the influences
which at once operated upon them. Th... |
Long Charles Stevens stood gazing after the retreating woman. The gentle
breeze, stirring the leaves of the sweet-scented forest, bore pleasant
odors to them, the birds sang their sweet peaceful songs, while a
squirrel, with a nut in its paws, skipped nimbly over the leaves near
and, pausing, reared upon its hind legs ... |
"John Louder, you are a deceived and deluded man.""Nay, nay, Charles, you mock me. I have had her come and sit upon my
chest and oppress me greatly with her torments. Have I not been turned
into a beast and ridden through thorns and briars at night and awoke to
find myself in bed?"Charles, laughing, answered:"It was th... |
"Yes, mistaken by all; but I know the Lord ordains me for this good and
holy work, and I will serve my Master, hard as the task may be.""Mr. Parris, may we not be mistaken in what constitutes the service of
the Master?""Aye! Is not the way so plain that a wayfaring man, though a fool,
cannot err therein?""Yet, 'they sh... |
"It is not God whom I deny, but man. God is good and just and kind. He
who, in the name of the Lord, would pervert His holy word is an impostor
and blasphemer more base than a thief or an infidel.""Charles, beware!""I have listened patiently to you, Mr. Parris. Now listen to me. Where
do you find in Scripture justifica... |
"Then why do you avoid me? I have scarcely seen you for three days."She was overwhelmed with hope and confusion for some moments; then, with
a faltering voice, she asked:"Did you wish to see me?""I did, Cora. I would not give offence to you for the world, and I
feared I had in some way wounded your feelings.""Charles, ... |
Adelpha, who was a merry, light-hearted girl, in love with all the
world, insisted on forming the acquaintance of Cora, until Charles, to
gratify her, granted her request, and the maids met. Cora was distant
and conventional, while Adelpha was warm-hearted and genial. They came
to like each other, despite the fact that... |
"How could she get to the edge, when it is round?" interrupted Alice."Probably the world was not round at that time," explained Adelpha.Charles went on:"The maid summoned all the powers of nature and the air, and bade them
build a palace. It was not like other palaces. There were no jewels
there; but every thing was wa... |
Here the leaven of opposition first began to work. Intelligence from
England of the designs there in favor of Orange elevated the hopes of
the disaffected; but until after the rupture in Boston, no man dared to
act. Sir Edmond Andros, who was perfectly devoted to the arbitrary
measures of King James, by his tyranny in ... |
"Resolved: since we are informed by persons coming from New York, that
Captain Jacob Leisler is designed to send up a company of armed men,
upon pretence to assist us in this country, who intend to make
themselves master of their majesties' fort and this city, and carry
divers persons and chief officers of this city pr... |
The prisoners, eight in number, were promptly arraigned before a special
court, constituted for the purpose by an ordinance, with inveterate
royalists as judges. Six of the inferior insurgents, who made their
defence, were convicted of high treason and reprieved. Leisler and
Milborne denied to the governor the power to... |
Mr. Parris, the fanatic, fraud and schemer, perhaps did more to augment
witchcraft, than any other person in the colonies. Parris was ambitious.
The circle of young girls, as the reader will remember, first held their
seances at his home. Their young nervous systems were so wrought upon,
that, at their age in life, the... |
"Charles, if my father builds us a home in the great wilderness, won't
you and your mother come and visit with us, until this storm cloud has
blown away? I do not ask you to give up your home. I do not ask you to
shrink from the defence of it; but a short sojourn abroad cannot be
thought to be an abandonment. You shoul... |
The circle of children who had been meeting at the house of Mr. Parris
began to perform wonders. In the dull life of the country, the
excitement of the proceedings of the "circle" was welcome, no doubt, and
it was always on the increase. The human mind requires amusement, as the
human body requires food, exercise and r... |
"The delusion, but for Parris, would have languished. Of his own niece,
the girl of eleven years of age, he demanded the names of the devil's
instruments, who bewitched the band of 'the afflicted,' and then became
at once informer and witness. In those days, there was no prosecuting
officer, and Parris was at hand to q... |
Mr. Parris was the first witness called. The law of evidence, or at
least the practice in Salem at that time, was quite different from the
present. Hearsay testimony was freely admitted in the case of Goody
Nurse. Mr. Parris stated that he was called to see a certain person who
was sick. Mercy Lewis was sent for. She w... |
The momentary rejoicing of the triumphant defendants was drowned by the
howls of the afflicted and the upbraiding of Mr. Parris. One judge
declared himself dissatisfied; another promised to have her tried anew;
and the chief justice pointed out a phrase used by the prisoner, which
might be made to signify that she was ... |
Abigail Williams, the niece of the pastor, came from an adjoining room.
She was a girl of twelve, with a fair face, but cunning eyes, which
deprived her of the innocence of childhood. Mr. Lawson at once entered
into conversation with her, but had not proceeded far, when she uttered
a shriek and, turning her face to the... |
"I have no desire to deny my name, for it is that of an honest man; I am
Charles Stevens," he answered."Do you know who I am?""I suspect you are one whom I saw at my house, though your name I have
not learned.""I am Joel Martin, and by profession an overseer on a Virginia
plantation. There were but two of us, my brothe... |
Evening came, and he sank down on the mossy banks of a stream and took a
few draughts of water to revive him. The stars came out one by one.By the merest chance, he raised his despairing eyes and, gazing across
the stream to the woods beyond, saw a light. Charles struggled to his
feet and gazed like one to whom life ha... |
At this moment some one lighted a torch within the jail. A scene, wild,
weird and terrible burst upon their view. The prisoners were almost
driven to madness by the sudden appearance of the savage and civilized
liberators.Charles Stevens, with chisel and hammer, quickly cut the chains of his
mother and hastened to libe... |
It was eleven o'clock and thirty minutes on Saturday night, February
8th, 1690, when the enemy entered, divided their party, waylaid every
portal and began the attack with a terrible war-whoop. Maulet attacked a
garrison, where the only resistance was made. He soon forced the gate,
slew the soldiers and burned the garr... |
The Virginian gave his promise, and then the three led Mr. Waters
hurriedly away, mounted horses, hastened to Boston and took a vessel for
Virginia.Charles Stevens went to Mr. George Waters and told him what had
happened. Mr. Waters' face grew troubled; but he said nothing.That night there was an alarm of savages in th... |
The yell had roused the others, and a squaw with a child fled to the
woods, while the tenth, a young warrior, was assailed by Mrs. Dustin and
the lad and slain ere he was fully awake. Ten of the twelve were dead,
and the escaped prisoners, after scuttling all the boats save one, to
prevent pursuit, started in that down... |
Against Elizabeth Proctor, Abigail Williams related stories that were so
foolish that one wonders how any sensible person could believe them.
Among other things she told how the accused had invited her to sign the
Devil's book."Dear child!" exclaimed the accused, in her agony, "it is not so. There
is another judgment, ... |
"Whereupon, I struck at it with my stick, but struck only the
ground-sel, and broke my stick. The arm with which I struck was
presently disenabled, and it vanished away. I presently went out at the
porch door and spied this Bishop, in her orchard, going toward her
house; but I had not power to set one foot forward unto... |
More than one-half of the cases presented were dismissed; and, though
bills were found against twenty-six persons, the trials showed the
feebleness of the testimony on which others had been condemned. The
minds of the juries had become enlightened, even before the prejudiced
judges. The same testimony was produced, and... |
"I shall make no outcry. You have a knife in your belt. Stab me, and be
done with it.""I shall not.""Where are you going to take me?""To my horse."Martin grumbled at the useless delay, but suffered himself to be carried
to the horse."Can you ride?" Waters asked."Yes.""I will help you to the saddle, and, if you think th... |
Cora stood with a careless, idle air gazing on the gentlemen and ladies
as they disembarked. None specially excited her interest. Many were
there greeting relatives and friends; but she had no friend or relative,
and what were all those people to her?She was about to turn away, when a face and pair of dark-blue eyes
at... |
"Trust in the Lord, mother. When all earthly help is gone, we can only
look to God for aid. I have prayed to him that, if it be his will, this
cup might pass; yet his will, not mine, be done. If I must die a martyr
to that woman's falsehood, I pray he may give me sufficient strength to
endure the trial."The mother fell... |
The fatal day came at last, and Charles was arraigned before the court
of oyer and terminer on charge of the murder of one Samuel Williams. He
plead not guilty and made every preparation for defense. It was like
fighting a masked battery; for they knew not what the evidence would be
against them. The trial opened, and ... |
[Illustration: Cotton Mather.]The inexorable indignation of the people of Salem Village drove Parris
from the place. Noyes confessed his error and guilt, asked forgiveness
and devoted the remainder of his life to deeds of charity. Sewall, one
of the judges, by rising in his pew in the Old South meeting-house on a
fast ... |
Neff, Mrs., nurse to Mrs. Dustin, captured, 320New Castle, arrival of Penn at, 30New Englanders, character of, 5New England settled by fugitives, 351New Jersey divided into East and West Jersey, 141Nicholson, lieutenant-governor of New York, 210Nicholson misrepresents Leisler, 220Nicholson made governor o... |
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What made her first think of Middlemead she has never been able to
remember. She did not know any one there, and she had never been there
in her life. She fancies it was that she had read in some book or
advertisement perhaps, that it was so very healthy, and dear
grandmamma's one idea was to make me as strong as she c... |
Many and many a time since then have we sat or stood together there,
granny and I, watching the sun's good-night. I think she must have begun
to teach me to look at it while I was still almost a baby. For these
wonderful sunsets seem mixed up in my mind with the very first things I
can remember. And still more with the... |
I see myself--those looking backs always are like pictures; you seem to
be watching yourself, even while you feel it is yourself--I see myself,
a little trot of a girl, in a pale gray merino frock, with a muslin
pinafore covering me nearly all over, and a broad sash of Roman colours,
with a good deal of pale blue in it... |
So I set to work to fix which of the 'likes,' as I called them, I would
keep.'A' had been already a house with a pointed roof, and a book standing
open on its two sides, and a window with curtains drawn at the top, and
the wood of the sash running across half-way, and a good many other
things which you couldn't see any... |
'Mrs. Nestor; you heard my name?' said some one in a pleasant voice.I turned round.There stood a tall lady in a long dark green cloak, she had a hat on,
not a bonnet, and I just thought of her as another lady, not troubling
myself as to whether she was younger or older than the one in the
carriage, though actually she ... |
'All right,' she said. 'We'll have to ask leave, I suppose. But you
haven't told me your name yet. The children are sure to ask me.'I repeated it--or them--solemnly.'"Charlotte"--that's my name,' Sharley remarked.'I'm never called it,' I said. 'I'm always called Helena.'Sharley looked rather surprised.'Fancy!' she said... |
Sharley was the first class all by herself, and Nan and Vallie were the
second. I did not do any lessons with them, but after each class had had
half an hour's teaching we had conversation for another half hour, and
when the conversation time began I was always sent for. Grandmamma had
asked Mrs. Nestor if she would li... |
And when I found myself alone with the others again, all three of them,
even Nan, chattering at once, I soon found my own tongue again, and the
strange, unreal sort of feeling went off. They were very simple unspoilt
children, though their parents were rich and what I used to call
'grand.' It is quite a mistake to thin... |
'Stay there quietly,' grandmamma said to me, 'till I call you.'And again I noticed a sort of little twinkle in her eyes, of which
before long I understood the reason. I must have been sitting there a
quarter of an hour at least when I thought I heard wheels coming. It
wasn't the usual time for the butcher or baker, or ... |
'What are the boys' Christian names?' asked grandmamma.'Harry and Lindsay,' Sharley replied.Grandmamma shook her head.'No,' she said, as if thinking aloud, 'I never heard those names in the
branch of the Vandeleurs I am connected with.'CHAPTER VI'WAVING VIEW'I was only eight years old at the time we made the acquaintan... |
'I remember Sharley--I think it was Sharley--speaking of them,' said
grandmamma. 'They are orphans, are they not?''Yes,' said Gerard. 'They've got guardians--one of them is quite an old
woman. Her name is Lady Bridget Woodstone. They don't care very much for
her. I think she must be very crabbed.''I do not think they c... |
'Mother said,' she began, 'would you come to be with her this afternoon
late, when the London doctor comes? She will send the brougham and it
will bring you back again, if you would be so very kind. Mother is so
afraid what the London doctor will say,' and poor Nan looked as if it
was very difficult for her not to cry.... |
Almost before we had quite taken in that it was really going to be, they
were off--everything packed up, a courier engaged--rooms secured at the
best hotel in the place they were going to--for all these things can be
done in no time when people have lots of money, grandmamma said--and
they were gone! Moor Court shut up... |
It _was_ hard on her--coming at the very same time as the extra money
for the lessons left off! And the severe winter and my cold all added to
it. It even made it more difficult for her to hear of other pupils, or
to get any orders for her beautiful fancy-work. No visitors would come
to Middlemoor _this_ winter, though... |
There was nothing _very_ particular in Sharley's letter. It was very
affectionate--full of longings to be coming home again, even though she
allowed that their present life was very bright and interesting. I was
just laughing at a description of Pert and Quick going to market on
their own account, and how they bargaine... |
It was August or September when Mr. Vandeleur heard about grandmamma. He
did not at once write to her; he made enquiries of the lawyer who had
for many years managed, grandpapa's and papa's affairs, and he found it
was only too true, that granny was _very_ badly off. But even then he
did not write immediately, for Mrs.... |
To this she did not reply, and I thought no more about it, but I was
glad to hear that Kezia was to stay on in the cottage to keep it all
aired and in nice order. And I said to her secretly that if granny and I
were not happy in Chichester Square--that was the name of the gloomy,
rather old-fashioned square, filled wit... |
'They will look nothing in this great bare place,' I thought. 'I won't
take them out, and then I shall have the feeling that we are not going
to be here for long.'A queer sort of home-sickness for Windy Gap and for my life there came
over me.'I do wish we had not come here; I'm sure I'm going to hate it. I think
grandm... |
'I should think Belinda would have unpacked your clothes by this time,'
said grandmamma, 'but no doubt you'll find something to do. But, by the
bye, they may not have lighted a fire in your room, don't stay upstairs
long if you feel chilly, but bring your work down to the library.' I
went upstairs. In the full daylight... |
'But I may be with you in the afternoons, mayn't I?' I said.'Of course, at least generally,' said grandmamma, 'whenever the weather
is fine enough I will take you out. It would never do to shut you up
when you have been so accustomed to the open air. Some days, perhaps, we
may go out in the mornings. All I want you to ... |
I crossed the room and sat down in the farthest corner, my heart
swelling. It was not _all_ spoilt temper, I was really terribly afraid
that grandmamma was beginning to care less for me. But before there had
been time for her to notice my disappointment, there came the sound of
wheels stopping at the door, and then the... |
Indoors, my life was really principally spent in my own room, where,
however, I always had a good big fire, which was a comfort. There were
many days on which I scarcely saw grandmamma, a few on which I actually
did not see her at all. For all this time Cousin Agnes was really
terribly ill--much worse than I knew--and ... |
I awoke with a start, not knowing where I was. I could not have been
asleep more than an hour, but to me it seemed like a whole night, and as
I was beginning to collect my thoughts I heard voices talking in the
room behind me. It must have been these voices which had awakened me.The first I heard was Mr. Vandeleur's.'I... |
By this time you will have guessed what my plan was. I think I will not
go into all the particulars of how I made my way to Paddington in a
hansom, which I picked up just outside the square, and how I managed to
take my ticket, a third class one this time, for though I had brought
all my money--a few shillings of my ow... |
The tears had got up into my eyes by this time, and as I spoke they
began slowly to drop on to my cheeks. Harry saw them, I knew, but I
didn't feel as if I cared, though I think I wanted him to be sorry for
me, his kind face looked as if he would be. So I was rather surprised
when, instead of saying something sympathis... |
But now that, in spite of her disapproval, I felt myself safe in Kezia's
care, the restraint I had put upon myself gave way more and more. I sat
there crying quietly, and when the little tray with tea and a tempting
piece of hot toast (which Harry's red face showed he had had to do with)
made its appearance I ate and d... |
When I was dressed I went downstairs, not sorry to feel I should find
the boys there. And in spite of the fears as to the future that were
hanging over me I managed to spend a happy day with them. They did
everything they could to cheer me up, and the more I saw of Harry the
more I began to realise how very, very much ... |
'Cousin Cosmo,' I said, 'are you going to forgive me, then? And
grandmamma, too? _I am_ sorry for running away, but I didn't understand
properly. I will go to school whenever you like, and not grumble.'My tears were dropping fast, but still I felt strangely soothed.'Tell me more about it all,' said Mr. Vandeleur. 'I wa... |
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JOURNAL OF MAN.VOL. I. MAY, 1887. NO. 4.CONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.The Prophetic Faculty: War and Peace
Clearing away the Fog
The Danger of living among Ch... |
"The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, when they had attained the summit of
imperial wickedness and licentiousness, as the Bible informs us, fell
from their high estate by the visitation of natural penalties, and the
righteous judgments of an overruling Providence. The fall of Rome and
other large cities proves to us that ... |
The long cherished purposes of hate and fratricidal struggle were all
shrouded in the depths of profound secrecy, and the whole southern
country might have been represented in the scene of stillness and
tranquility that lay outstretched before the eyes of the watchers, who
stood in the State House of the capital city o... |
As to the recognition of God to which my correspondent objects, I
think science, as I understand it, sanctions the idea that the basic
power of the universe is spiritual and not material; that spirit may
evolve, create, and modify matter, but matter never originates spirit,
though they have a continual interaction, whi... |
The heathen nations are not a source of danger. If Christendom were
annihilated to-morrow, there would be no occasion to speak of
defending our coasts or building up a powerful navy. It is apparent,
then--it is confessed--that it is very dangerous to live among these
Christian nations, or in other words, it is very _da... |
This is a very satisfactory statement of the case from the average
standpoint, which is not the ethical. But in the first place I
consider it morally sure that this country will never have a foreign
war if it models its national policy on the Divine law; and secondly,
whenever war is foreseen as probable in consequence... |
Prostitution, in the light of political economy, is far less of an
evil than the enforced maternity of wretched and discordant families,
which becomes the fountain of an endless flow of crime, while
prostitution shows its evils only in the parties immediately
concerned, and effectually purifies society in time by arres... |
The _Boston Herald_ estimates very fairly his intellectual status,
saying: "He spoke easily. His stories were well told, his points well
put. He invested people with a new atmosphere, but he did not set them
to thinking, and can hardly be called a thinker himself. Much as he
has done to forward the vital interests of h... |
"There came upon the slates at Dr. Stansbury's public seance, last
Sunday evening, the following message from Judge Wm. R. Thompson, father
of H. M. Thompson, of this city: 'The essential principles of primitive
Christianity and the precepts of Modern Spiritualism are essentially one
and the same, which, if practised, ... |
Thus do we hold our destiny in our own hands. If we will cultivate the
faculties which are most in need of cultivation, their organs,
receiving more blood, will grow faster than any other portions of the
brain, while the organs that are kept in check and deprived of
activity will gradually decline in power and size, so... |
If the reader has not fully mastered the intricacy of the brain
structure, he will find his difficulties removed by studying two more
skilful dissections. The following engraving presents the appearances
when we cut through the middle of the brain horizontally and reveal
the bottom of the ventricles, in which we see th... |
Why is it that a simple speck of protoplasm void of visible
organization--a mere jelly to hold the invisible life power--carries
within itself in that invisible spiritual element the destiny of
myriads of animal beings, and according to the nature of that
invisible spiritual element it may develop into a Humboldt or an... |
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anchor and sit down to commune with philosophy as taught by Buchanan,
the fogs and mists of t... |
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a feast of good food for the soul."--A. C. D. "The Journal is a
literary feast of which I am more than proud to be a partaker."--W. S.
"Your "Moral Education" is one of the very best books ever written,
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Produced by Carl D. DuBoisTHE HIGH CALLINGBY
CHARLES M. SHELDON
AUTHOR OF "IN HIS STEPS," ETC.HODDER & STOUGHTON
NEW YORK
GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANYCopyright, 1911,
By George H. Doran CompanyTO MY SON
MERRIAM WARDFOREWORDThe story, "The High Calling," was written at two different periods, in
1909 and 1910, and was read at... |
Helen Douglas, their second child, was eighteen, just entering Hope
College, and beginning to face some questions that gave Paul and Esther
much thought. She was a girl blessed with her mother's vigorous health,
so overflowing with vitality that her mother said to her one day,
"Helen, if you feel so strong and outbreak... |
But there was one phrase in Walter's letter that Paul dwelt over after
he had gone back to the office. Walter had written of the luxury in the
rooms of the rich fellows, evidently with some spirit of envy, and
closed his brief comment by saying:"You can see for yourself I am not in the same class with these fellows,
bu... |
Added to all the rest, Paul was smitten with the torrent of profanity
that burst from scores of Burrton men as the truth that they were beaten
began to come forcibly home to them. Paul had lived long enough to know
that the passion of gambling always rouses the worst exhibitions of
human selfishness. But it was a new r... |
"How do you know it is not discouraged?""My boy tells me that during his whole stay here he has not heard a word
of disapproval or protest against this prevalent habit."The president turned to a bookcase near by and took down a small volume
entitled "Chapel Talks." He opened it at a certain page and without a
word poin... |
"Louis is doing very well now at school. His headaches trouble him some.
I am giving him a course of careful training. He was much interested in
the set of models you sent him. It was good of you to remember him. He
admires you vastly. Don't forget that, boy, will you?"You must come home for the holidays. We want the f... |
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