Father TaylorAmerican Unitarian Association, 1906 - 58 pages |
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Page 37 - I likes a good thing as well as another man' (and giving his trousers a hitch-up); 'you seems to be a good old man, and I will tell you what I likes: when a man preaches at me, I want he should take something warm out of his heart and shove it into mine ; that's what I calls preaching, sir. If you're goin' to read it, give me the book and I will read it myself.
Page 53 - Moderation," who tamed the luxuriance of his discourse, would have clipped also these shoots of praise. In fact, he himself pruned them in other moments, as when he said, in closer discrimination of this rare spirit, " Ralph Waldo Emerson is the sweetest soul God ever made; but he knows no more of theology than Balaam's ass did of Hebrew grammar.
Page 53 - Go there? Why if he went there he would change the climate and the tide of emigration would turn that way." Much as he loved the man, however, Taylor never approved of Emerson's transcendentalism, with its pantheistic overtones and its trustful optimism about the goodness of Nature. In trusting Nature, Taylor said, we should not forget that men are killed by poisonous flowers and pretty berries and falling...
Page 55 - Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Or paltered with Eternal God for power." MAJOR-GENERAL EDWARD L. MOLINEUX, NATIONAL GUARD, SNY, LATE USV T REGRET my inability to attend the Memorial Service this evening. As a volunteer officer, I cannot speak from personal knowledge of General Hancock's achievements in the field. But like many others who never came within the immediate...
Page 47 - I tell you, boys, no man can calculate on serving the devil all his life and then cheating him with his last breath. Don't burn the candle down to the end in sin and then give God the snuff.
Page 26 - A good man will go to heaven, sir, die where he may, and a fool will be a fool wherever he lives, though he sits on my pulpit stairs.
Page 52 - Lord, there are two things we need to be delivered from in Boston, — bad rum and bigotry. Which is the worst Thou knowest, I don't. Amen.
Page 56 - roughing it" on the ocean; the temptations of a young sailor's life when he came ashore; unable to read when he was eighteen; privateersman, prisoner, and whatever he must be beside in the years of his preparation; working ahead always and never falling back, and winning his way to...
Page 12 - The spirit that from God is made The noblest of its kind Asks not the help of rules that serve /To guide the feebler mind.
Page 39 - Is there another old sinner from uptown who wants to talk? Now's his chance, before we go on with the meeting.