My Wife and I; Or, Harry Henderson's HistoryStowe, Harriet Beecher
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My Wife and I; Or, Harry Henderson's History
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
American fiction -- 19th century; Courtship -- Fiction; Marriage -- Fiction; Romance fiction
We see that this thing is to go on. Soon it will be necessary that every
leading clergyman should embody in his theology a serial story, to be
delivered from the pulpit Sunday after Sunday. We look forward to
announcements in our city papers such as these: The Rev. Dr. Ignatius,
of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, will begin a serial romance, to be
entitled "St. Sebastian and the Arrows," in which he will embody the
duties, the trials, and the temptations of the young Christians of our
day. The Rev. Dr. Boanerges, of Plymouth Rock Church, will begin a
serial story, entitled "Calvin's Daughter," in which he will discuss the
distinctive features of Protestant theology. The Rev. Dr. Cool Shadow
will go on with his interesting romance of "Christianity a Dissolving
View,"--designed to show how everything is, in many respects, like
everything else, and all things lead somewhere, and everything will
finally end somehow, and that therefore it is important that everybody
should cultivate general sweetness, and have the very best time possible
in this world.
By the time all these romances get to going, the system of teaching by
parables, and opening one's mouth in dark sayings, will be fully
elaborated. _Pilgrim's Progress_ will be no where. The way to the
celestial city will be as plain in everybody's mind as the way up
Broadway--and so much more interesting! Finally all science and all art
will be explained, conducted, and directed by serial stories, till the
present life and the life to come shall form only one grand romance.
This will be about the time of the Millennium.
Meanwhile, I have been furnishing a story for the _Christian Union_, and
I chose the subject which is in everybody's mind and mouth, discussed on
every platform, ringing from everybody's tongue, and coming home to
every man's business and bosom, to wit:
My Wife and I.
I trust that Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, and all the prophetesses of
our day, will remark the humility and propriety of my title. It is not I
and My Wife--oh no! It is My Wife and I. What am I, and what is my
father's house, that I should go before my wife in anything?
"But why specially for the _Christian Union?_" says Mr. Chadband. Let us
in a spirit of Love inquire.
Is it not evident why, O beloved? Is not that firm in human nature which
stands under the title of MY WIFE AND I, the oldest and most venerable
form of Christian union on record? Where, I ask, will you find a better
one?--a wiser, a stronger, a sweeter, a more universally popular and
agreeable one?
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