The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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liberty and religious freedom. The world is slowly reaching
out for " more light, more justice, and more love." And it
is being vitalized and renovated by the growing conviction
that practical religion is always and forever love to God
and love to man.
I cannot say with my dear friend, Miss Frances Power
Cobbe, that "I would gladly accept the permission to run
my earthly race once more from beginning to end." I
am afraid it would prove wearisome - "a twice-told tale."
And so while rejoicing in the gains of the past and in the
bright outlook into the future, I prefer to go forward into
the larger life that beckons me farther on, where I am sure
it will be better than here. And when the summons comes,
although the world has dealt kindly with me, I shall not be
sorry to lift the latch and step out into " that other chamber of the King, larger than this and lbvelier."
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