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I visited from house to house the people living in Orange Street, and saw in this way the families living in nine houses, to ascertain whether any individuals wanted Bibles, whether they could read, whether they wished their children put to our day schools or Sunday school, with the view of helping them accordingly. This afforded opportunities to converse with them about their souls. January 15.
There was a time when I was in the habit of saying "dark Madrid," an expression which, I thank God, I could now drop. It were scarcely just to call a city, "dark," in which thirteen hundred Testaments at least were in circulation, and in daily use. It was now that I turned to account a supply of Bibles which I had received from Barcelona, in sheets, at the commencement of the preceding year.
'Now you will do it to please me, said Albinia, 'if for no better reason. Fetch your Bibles and Prayerbooks. 'We shall never have time for our studies, I assure you, mamma, objected Lucy. 'That is not your concern, said Albinia, her spirit rising at the girls' opposition. 'I wish for obedience. Lucy went, Sophy leant against the table like a post.
My dear Sister Roberts: We are alive and well. Praise the Lord. On the morning of the eighteenth we were roughly thrown from our bed by earthquake, and our house broken all to pieces, and it was afire before we were rescued. Two poor women on the lower floor were burned to death. We lost all we had except the clothes we had on and our Bibles.
I don't mind the exclamation of any old stager who drinks Madeira worth from two to six Bibles a bottle, and burns, according to his own premises, a dozen souls a year in the cigars with which he muddles his brains.
No, it was found to have been in very different places of resort, that these wretches had been, almost from their infancy, accomplished for crime; and that their training had not taken or needed any assistance from an exercise on literary rudiments, from Bibles, catechisms, or religious and moral poetry, or from an attendance on public worship.
Fry was a Quaker and a Protestant, did not matter to him, provided she could assist in raising this debased little colony into something like orderly life and decency. So he cooperated with her, and with his consent she gave away Bibles and tracts, vaccinated and taught the children, as well as moved among them generally in the character of their good genius.
"You may take your Bibles." The boys, by a simultaneous movement, open their desks, and take from them their copies of the sacred volume. "What is the first book of the New Testament?" "Matthew," they all answer at once. "The second?" "Mark." "The third?" "Luke." "The next?" "John." "The next?" "The Acts." "The next?" Many answer, "Romans." "The next?"
I may not see the end; but it will come and I shall be vindicated; and these men will find that they have not read their Bibles aright." After another pause: "Doesn't it appear strange that men can ignore the moral aspects of this contest? A revelation could not make it plainer to me that slavery or the government must be destroyed. Lincoln did not wear his heart upon his sleeve.
This served also as a wad, after being emptied of its contents, and was pushed home with a ramrod. A store of German Bibles in Pennsylvania fell into the hands of the soldiers at a moment when paper was a crying need, and the pages of these Bibles were used for wads. The artillery of the time seems feeble compared with the monster weapons of death which we know in our own age.
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