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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...Jesus while His disciples slept; and in the dark hour of His agony they fled. As Christians, we ever should cultivate this virtue, as a germ from Heaven, and hold it steadfast by faith to sustain us, not only against dangers, but death itself. If the powerful effects of sympathy could sway the turbulent and angry passioni of the heathen, surely it ought to influence our Christian conduct and affect our hearts. In 1827, having lost my youthful companion, in March following, (1823,) I, with my eldest son, visited Augusta college, in Ky., with the intention of placing him there. Not being conversant with Latin poets, I was invited in the room. I listened to a class reading in Virgil, under the instruction of the Rev. John P. Durbin, under whose superintendence the college flourished. The poet was de-seribing the humble domicil and fields of his father, which were torn from his possession by a soldier of Augustus Cesar; the place of his infantile amusements was described; the cottage and sheep folds, the wheat fields and the groves, and all these were wrested from him by a ruthless soldier! He had resisted the soldier's attempt, and fled to save his life; and his pathetic description of the whole scene was so poetically portrayed, that Cesar ordered the premises to be restored to the family! J had almost conceived in my own mind the poet with his shepherd's flute, whistling and singing around his sheep fold, and gamboling among the lambs, now driven by the hand of the oppressor to seek for safety in some distant region. How many tyrants have been brought to feel the influence of the tender emotions of the human heart, which have been waked up to action from a poetical effusion or some striking and descriptive view. Such was the case with David in his...
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