The Peak in Darien, With Some Other Inquiries Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body: An Octave of EssaysCobbe, Frances Power
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The Peak in Darien, With Some Other Inquiries Touching Concerns of the Soul and the Body: An Octave of Essays
Cobbe, Frances Power
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“The thoughtful reader will find A YEAR OF MIRACLE a source of genuine
and permanent delight.”--_Boston Transcript._
“A delightful companion for an hour of meditation.”--_Zion’s Herald._
“The sermons are wonderfully beautiful. They are veritable poems, and
poems of a high order.”--_Woman’s Journal._
“The theme is hackneyed: the thing is not, neither is Mr.
Gannett’s performance. Such discourses would grace the best pulpit
anywhere.”--_Boston Advertiser._
“The several subjects chosen are as hackneyed as the theme of a
school-girl’s composition; but the treatment is singularly rich,
fresh, and sparkling. Mr. Gannett combines in happy measure qualities
rarely found together,--a wide range of reading and observation, with
brooding thought and solitary fancy, the naturalist’s keen sight and
the poet’s deeper insight. His study of the outer world is close
and careful, his use of scientific detail and illustration apt and
striking, with nothing of parade and pedantry. In almost every page,
we feel the finer touch of genius, and a deep but unobtrusive spirit
of worship.”--_Literary World._
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methods; but, by their effect in awakening the devotional spirit, they
are eminently so. They are full of science, and yet full of religion,
so far as faith in and reverence for the Supreme enter into religion.
This is a little book, but a full book.”--_Christian Advocate._
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Here is reverence, here is poetry; but here is nature and science, and
reason, too, all taken up in the solvent of a living faith. The four
seasons of the year, in these four discourses, suggest four festivals
of love and trust, symbolize four natural sacraments of religion.
Scarcely anywhere will be found thinking and believing more suggestive
and helpful in these questioning times than under the second theme,
‘Resurrection.’”--_St. Louis Spectator._
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and lyrical poems in the language, and puts a wonderful amount of
soul into whatever he writes in this little volume. The titles give
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delightful expositions of the glory and divinity of the outer world
that has ever been written. It is in the vein of Wordsworth and
Emerson and Lowell and Herbert; and whoever enjoys God’s great world
outside of man’s heart will be glad to have it near him in his joyous
and devout moments.”--_Standard of the Cross._
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