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James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
nt marked the course of this boy throughout my entire acquaintance with him; notwithstanding his moderate capacity; & still more moderate acquirements. John was born May 9th 1800, at Torrington, Litchfield Co, Connecticut; of poor but respectable parents: a defendant on the side of his father of one of the company of the Mayflower who landed at Plymouth 1620. His mother was decended from a man who came at an early period to New England from Amsterdam, in Holland. Both his Father's & his Mother's Fathers served in the war of the revolution: His Father's Father; died in a barn at New York while in the service, in 1776. I cannot tell you of any thing in the first Four years of John's life worth mentioning save that at that early age he was tempted by Three large Brass Pins belonging to a girl who lived in the family & stole them. In this he was detected by his Mother; & after having a full day to think of the wrong: received from her a thorough whipping. When he was Five years ol
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 2: the father of the man. (search)
nt marked the course of this boy throughout my entire acquaintance with him; notwithstanding his moderate capacity; & still more moderate acquirements. John was born May 9th 1800, at Torrington, Litchfield Co, Connecticut; of poor but respectable parents: a defendant on the side of his father of one of the company of the Mayflower who landed at Plymouth 1620. His mother was decended from a man who came at an early period to New England from Amsterdam, in Holland. Both his Father's & his Mother's Fathers served in the war of the revolution: His Father's Father; died in a barn at New York while in the service, in 1776. I cannot tell you of any thing in the first Four years of John's life worth mentioning save that at that early age he was tempted by Three large Brass Pins belonging to a girl who lived in the family & stole them. In this he was detected by his Mother; & after having a full day to think of the wrong: received from her a thorough whipping. When he was Five years ol
J. William Jones, Christ in the camp, or religion in Lee's army, Chapter 5: Bible and colportage work. (search)
oldier boy. All the sad, long days she had spent coming from her home in the far South, her heart was bleeding at the thought that her son was unprepared to die. Oh, if he were only a Christian, then I could give him up, and then tears, such as none but loving mothers ever shed, would tell how deeply the heart was wrung with crushing sorrow. She reached the couch of her sick boy just in time to hear one sentence, but that was enough: Mother, I have found the Saviour. Oh, that dear tract, A Mother's Parting Words. God only knows how many such sons have passed from the hospitals and battle-fields of the South to the peaceful mansions above. I think it highly probable that never, in the history of tract literature, has as much been accomplished in so short a period by one tract. At the annual session of the Strawberry Association, a little more than a year ago, while the claims of colportage were before that body, Rev. J. C. Clopton, of Lynchburg, made some affecting remarks in refe
William W. Bennett, A narrative of the great revival which prevailed in the Southern armies during the late Civil War, Chapter 5: helps to the revival-colportage. (search)
souls of their fellow-men. Some few hesitate to take a Testament, though they will accept a tract. One man positively refused a Testament but took the tract, A Mother's Parting Words to her Soldier Boy, by the reading of which he was deeply moved and became a true penitent, asked me to pray for him, and finally died in the triuso affected me as of late; away from home and friends, it is doubly sweet. Three have professed conversion from reading, Why will ye die? several from reading A Mother's Parting Words. A soldier told me The Call to Prayer had roused him to a sense of his duty as a professor of religion. Rev. Joseph E. Martin, from Chimborazoor, afflicted soldier wept piteously and said, Sir, I cannot read; will you be good enough to read some of those tracts to me? I read several, and among them, A Mother's Parting Words to her Soldier Boy. Oh, said he, that reminds me so much of my poor old mother, who has faded from earth since I joined the army. He wept and se
The picturesque pocket companion, and visitor's guide, through Mount Auburn, Monuments. (search)
cial manner, to this country. The following Ode was written for the funeral by the Rev. Mr. Pierpont:--Stranger, there is bending o'er thee Many an eye with sorrow wet: All our stricken hearts deplore thee: Who, that knew thee, can forget? Who forget what thou hast spoken? Who, thine eye-thy noble frame? But, that golden bowl is broken, In the greatness of thy fame. Autumn's leaves shall fall and wither On the spot where thou shalt rest; 'Tis in love we bear thee thither, To thy mourning Mother's breast. For the stores of science brought us, For the charm thy goodness gave, For the lessons thou hast taught us, Can we give thee but a grave? Tremont or strangers tomb. Nature's priest, how pure and fervent Was thy worship at her shrine! Friend of man,--of God the servant, Advocate of truths divine,-- Taught and charmed as by no other, We have been, and hoped to be; But while waiting round thee, Brother, For thy light-'tis dark with thee!-Dark with thee!-no; thy Creator, All whos
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, X. Charles Eliot Norton (search)
y Hill. The reference to the combined manly and womanly qualities of Norton spoke for itself, and won applause even before the place of residence was uttered; and I received from Norton this recognition of the little tribute:-- Ashfield, 2 July, 1904. My dear Higginson,--Your friendly words about me in your Phi Beta poem give me so much pleasure that I cannot refrain from thanking you for them. I care for them specially as a memorial of our hereditary friendship. They bring to mind my Mother's affection for your Mother, and for Aunt Nancy, who was as dear an Aunt to us children at Shady Hill as she was to you and your brothers and sisters. What dear and admirable women! What simple, happy lives they led! No one's heart will be more deeply touched by your poem than mine. One most agreeable result of Norton's Cambridge boyhood has not been generally recognized by those who have written about him. His inherited estate was so large that he led a life absolutely free in respec
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, Ode recited at the Harvard commemoration, July 21, 1865. (search)
limbs for light: We seem to do them wrong, Bringing our robin's-leaf to deck their hearse Who in warm life-blood wrote their nobler verse, Our trivial song to honor those who come With ears attuned to strenuous trump and drum, And shaped in squadron-strophes their desire, Live battle-odes whose lines were steel and fire: Yet sometimes feathered words are strong, A gracious memory to buoy up and save From Lethe's dreamless ooze, the common grave Of the unventurous throng. II To-day our Reverend Mother welcomes home Her wisest Scholars, those who understood The deeper teaching of her mystic tome, And offered their fresh lives to make it good: No lore of Greece or Rome, No science peddling with the names of things, Or reading stars to find inglorious fates, Can lift our life with wings Far from Death's idle gulf that for the many waits, And lengthen out our dates With that clear fame whose memory sings In manly hearts to come, and nerves them and dilates: Nor such thy teaching, Mother
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Robert Edward Lee. (search)
ll the nations of the world, as well as his followers and former foes, have acclaimed him as one of those who throughout all time shall be held supreme among the greatest sons of earth. And yet I do desire to again give utterance to a thought which has often been expressed by lips far more eloquent than mine, and that, to give it in the felicitous language of another, is this: That of the long list of glorious names which America has furnished to the history of the world, it was our Mother's fortune to furnish the two who lead that mighty band—the two characters that tower in complete and rounded stature over all their great compatriots, the Castor and Pollux of our nation's history, the Great Twin brethren, who will ride down the centuries leading the vanguard of our army of immortality—chiefs of the deathless host of patriots, soldiers, philosophers and statesmen, who put life to heroic uses and battled for noble ends, the two of this continent incomparable and unrivalled—Ge<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 8: appointment at Harvard and second visit to Europe (search)
m Mrs. L[ongfellow], in a p[ackage] of letters which reached us a few days since. She is very kind to write me, & I shall not fail to write her, as often as possible, while absent. With this you will receive a letter for Aunt Lucia. I shall answer Mrs. L's letter very soon. Henry has become quite learned in the Swedish, & can already translate Danish. He is studying Icelandic also, as I presume he has told you. He is in fine health & spirits. With many wishes for your health & my Mother's, & with much respect & affection for you both—I am as ever Your affectionate Mary—— [On outside of letter.] September 28. I have written by the same ship that brings you this. H. W. L. Also a letter to George. [Endorsement.] Mary P. Longfellow to S. Longfellow, containing a Copy of Henry's Journal Sept. 21, 1835. The journal is missing from the Ms., having doubtless been retained by the father. A long extract from it will be found in the Life, i. 216. Copenhage<
The Daily Dispatch: October 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wanted (search)
Religious Reading for the soldiers. --The Baptist Colportage Board has on hand a large assortment of Tracts, a portion of which have been written especially for the soldiers of the Confederate army. They have been pronounced by the religious press of the South to be excellent. We would especially call attention to the following:--"A Mother's Parcing Words to her Soldier Boy;" "Soldier's Great Want;" "I am a Soldier;" "Volunteers Wapted;" "Bathel." Besides the above, and many others designed for the soldier, we have a large supply of the best Tracts ever issued by the American Tract Society such as "Come to Jesus," "What it is to believe in Christ," &c. These have been reprinted in the South. We would also call attention to our "Hymns for the Camp." a little volume of rich, spiritual, old fashioned song. Within a few days we have sold hundreds of copies, and are receiving orders from various parts of the South. Resides the above we shall soon have a supply of larger
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