Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seekin...g for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything for, that use it shoul...d always be put to. Now, when he made rum, he said "Let this be for the Indians to get drunk with," and it must be so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate;Mdebt, which consumes so much tim...e, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be forgone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is something very solemn in the thought of a great spirit like hers entering the spiritual world which she did not believe i...n. If we are right in our faith, what a blessed surprise for her!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The birch stripped of its bark, or the charred stump where a tree has been burned down to be made into a canoe,--these are the onl...y traces of man, a fabulous wild man to us. On either side, the primeval forest stretches away uninterrupted to Canada, or to the "South Sea"; to the white man a drear and howling wilderness, but to the Indian a home, adapted to his nature, and cheerful as the smile of the Great Spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Was it the proud full sail of his great verse, Bound for the prize of all too precious you,... That did my ripe thoughts in my brain inherse, Making their tomb the womb wherein they grew? Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,... for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name. His mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. He has shown strength with his arm; he has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts. He has brought down the powerful from their thrones, and lifted up the lowly; he has filled the hungry with good things, and sent the rich away empty. He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy, according to the promise he made to our ancestors, to Abraham and to his descendants forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, ...and you will name him John. You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He must never drink wine or strong drink; even before his birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »