Letters of Lydia Maria Child, with a biographical introduction by John G. Whittier and an appendix by Wendell Phillips.

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but he has greatly modified the old one. I opine
that Paul would recognize in the teachings of our
day few of the distinctive features of Christianity as
it presented itself to his mind. It is curious to read
the sermons that were admired a hundred years ago,
and compare them with the preaching of the present
day. What congregations would now be edified by
the thunder of those old guns of the Gospel? There
is not a parish that would hear them as " candidates."
TO THE SAMIE.
WAYLANID, 1869.
I wish you joy of your " new Greek grammar." I
eschew all grammars, because I cannot receive their
contents by intuition. Perhaps if you were to confine your investigation to the Greek article, you
would find it more "entertaining,' but still the result might not be satisfactory. I have read of a
German philologist who expended the diligent labor
of a long life on the study of the Greek article, and
on his deathbed he said to his son, " Take warning by
my example. Do not undertake too much. I ought
to have confined myself to the dative case."
I cordially agree with the praises of "Unspoken
Sermons." They are the only kind that interest me.
I was amused by the prematureness of Aggy; but
of all the children I ever heard of, Susan L's eldest daughter has manifested the most precocious forecast. When she was about six years old, her father,
in reading the newspaper aloud, read of a workman in
a manufactory whose arm had been shockingly torn
by the machinery. They did not suppose the little
one understood it, or took any notice of it, but when
she was put to bed she began to cry bitterly. When