Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BT SAMUEL I, o N ; r I; I, L O V., In the beginning was the Word : Athwart the chaos-night It gleamed with quick, creative power, And there was life and light. Thy Word, 0 God ! is living yet; Amid earth's restless strife New harmony creating still And ever higher life. And as that Word moves surely on, The light, ray after ray, Streams farther out athwart the dark, And night grows into day. 0 Word that broke the Stillness first, Sound on ! and never cease Till all earth's darkness be made light, And all her discord, peace ! Till, wail of woe and clank of chain And bruit of battle stilled, The world with thy great music's pulse, 0 Word of Love ! be thrilled. Till selfishness, and strife, and wrong Thy summons shall have heard; And thy creation be complete, O thou Eternal Word ! Fall River, September, 1850. Anomalies of ttye Tlge. BY HARRIET MARTIXEAB. My Dear Friend : — As the years pass on, and your annual celebration comes round, recalling our thoughts to our principles of action in regard to a very serious matter, I grow more and more uneasy about the discrepancy between the Christianity which is recorded and that which is professed in the countries that assume to lead the world. To me it appears that the discrepancy deepens and spreads, so that I am perplexed and scared, as by a bewildering dream, and am ready to ask whether it is we who are insane, or those whose doings confound us. I wish it were possible to bring others to that point of open declaration, and clear avowal of views which we are, I believe, ready to afford on ourpart. If we could bring men who do unchristian things to say that they do not think Christianity adequate to the needs of human nature; or that they do not think it appropriate to al... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.