The Christian Parlor Book Volume 211-1852 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...between distant and hostile lands, it is now the reconciling medium of communication, bringing nations nigh, and spreading knowledge and religion over the earth. God has already achieved some of His greatest wonders in the deep, and here, we believe, he will yet do mightier and more glorious things. As he opened the Ked Sea, and formed between its liquid walls ahighway lor his penile, and mudq the Jordan tarry in its course, and roll its mnssive waters into a mountain, because Israel would go over, so can God hereafter astonish the world with displays of his power in the sea, and make his glory to be respected as well from the heaving ocean as from the island and continent. Our interest in the sea, and in lands beyond the sea, is increasing yearly. We wait for tidings from the old world, and catch them as eagerly as if the arms of our own government were stretched over the ocean. We identify ourselves with nations, once distant, and hostile, and savage, but now neighboring and fraternal. To what degree this intercourse and intimacy may be carried, none can tell; but who cannot believe that God is by this means preparing materials for his own glory, and sowing upon the waves of every sea the seeds of honor, and thanksgiving, and praise to his name HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Oua land of the many streams has heard the awakening of many tongues--tongues attuned to songs of freedom, and beauty, and love, and of the hope which hovers with its white wings over the new land of promise. Less philosophical and reflective than Bryant, and less intense and energetic than Whittier, yet as tender, graceful, and ideal as either, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the greatest of that constellation of poets which New England has given to liberty and to the sacred art. F...