Life thoughts, gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher. By one of his congregation.

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ignorance brood over the people, they will possess
some little trickling power; but let the light of
knowledge shine in upon the masses, and the
channels of their influence will dry up and be forgotten.
Already, war, with its bloody hand, raps at the
gate of empire in India and in China. England
presses upon them. Russia is steadily moving
through craunching snows to the southward. The
great nations, like lions roused from their lairs, are
roaring and springing upon the prey, and the little
nations, like packs of hungry wolves, are standing
by, licking their jaws, and waiting for their share
of the spoils. The world is out hunting - what?
Heathenism. And it will be caught; it will be
unearthed. A little while and there will be no
den so deep, or forest so dark, or island so remote,
that it can find refuge.
CONCEITED men often seem a harmless kind of
men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve'
others from the duty of respecting them at all.
IN my schoolboy drawing lessons, when I came
to the human face, my master gave me first the
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