The Monthly Religious Magazine (Volume 34) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tered at the nation's birth, the other at its new birth; and, if regeneration be an event to vie with creation in our personal biography, the era of revolution exceeds not that of reformation in a people's history. Let this people's thanks ascend to the Giver, for its first President and its last! After all the patterns of presidential excellence we have had, may he ordain our nobles to be always of ourselves, and our Governor never any arbitrary and domineering despot, but proceeding from the midst of us; and that to every nation and kindred and tribe and tongue on the face of the earth, the same lesson at last may reach, till God's voice and the people's be indeed one, and no boundaries remain, but like bars in music for concord, between all classes in the social scale! MORNING SIDE. CHAPTER VII. IMMORTALITY. The day turned out very differently from what we expected; nothing uncommon when success depends on the weather. There was a continuous, pouring rain. Arthur, I suppose, enjoyed another " red-letter " day. As for me, I was bustling about in my barn and sheds, intent upon putting things to rights; which means, so much had every thing got awry, a general topsy-turvy. The case was something more than hope deferred for one day. The glen would be too damp perhaps for a week to come. But we had the reward which the proverb assigns to patient waiters; and the dry ground, and the clear blue sky, and the warm sun, and the hopes sharpened by delay, promised and gave us a day of rare enjoyment. It was a pretty sight to see little family groups arrive, one after the other, each freighted with baskets and pails to eke out a common repast; and when that repast, seasoned with the condiments of joke and mirth, was finished, it was another pretty sight to see other groups fo...