American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Sunday schools -- United States -- Periodicals
The Whigs did almost or quite call the Kinderhook man a sly thief.
They probably _now_ think he was as honest, perhaps more suited to the
Presidency than was Gen. Harrison. Very different from the "Fox" of
Kinderhook was Charles James Fox of England who died a hundred years
ago. Strangely enough he was a great Whig, though Whig in England was
not the same as Whig in the United States. He was a fine scholar and
high statesman; some say, "the greatest debater the world ever saw."
Different still was George Fox of England who died two hundred years
ago--one of the purest, best men that ever lived. The Quakers or
Friends started from him. He went everywhere preaching the simple
teaching of the Bible and against trusting to forms and ceremonies.
Enemies arose against him and had him put in loathsome dungeons. But he
came out of the prison (though not just as Saint Peter did, by the help
of an angel) but only to forgive his cruel persecutors and go right on
preaching God's free and simple grace.
John Foxe was another grand man. He wrote "Foxe's Book of Martyrs."
Have you ever read it? He died three hundred years ago. Thus you see
the Foxes are not all so sly and tricky as those in the picture "look
to be." See what queer eyes they have. Somewhat upside down.
C.
SOME REMARKABLE WOMEN.
N.--NEWELL, HARRIET ATWOOD.
UPON the platform in Tremont Temple, Boston, at the meeting of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, last October,
there was placed a little mahogany table, old-fashioned in form and
dark with age. It was an object of great interest from the fact that
around that small table, three feet by two--or, when the leaves were
spread, three by five--there sat, seventy-five years ago, the five men
who formed the American Board at that date. The first meeting held in
the parlor of the little parsonage in Farmington, Ct., was a small
beginning, and who could have guessed that Tremont Temple, Music Hall,
and one or two churches would have been filled to overflowing by the
crowds that would come to the seventy-fifth anniversary! We who live
in this missionary age cannot realize the weight of that undertaking,
nor can we who are saying farewell to friends and acquaintances who go
out in fast-sailing steam ships with many a comfort and convenience
unknown in those days, and in comparative safety, realize what it meant
to those five young men and their wives who were the first sent out by
the newly-formed board, to bid adieu to home and friends with scarce a
hope of ever returning to their native land. Rev. Samuel J. Newell was
one of the five, and the subject of this sketch was his devoted young
wife. Harriet Newell was the first woman who went out to India as a
missionary. She was scarcely beyond girlhood, only eighteen years old
when she said good-by to her widowed mother and went out to tell the
people of India about the Friend who waited to receive them.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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