If God's justice and mercy extends not farther across the border than theologians teach, how worse than wretched the fate of myriad millions who on earth longed for simple happiness, happiness so simple that it should be common to all as the air they breathe. I propose to glance for a brief hour, at the history of one of the most remarkable women that ever lived. The events of a life always possess a peculiar fascination. The events of a life always possess a peculiar fascination. It is no less true mentally and physically, than morally, that a parent's sins are visited upon their children to the third and fourth generation.
Every man lives again in the race.
His successors are but modified editions of himself. To judge how much our acts will influence the future, we must look back and see what influence the past had had upon us. We are measurably what our fathers and mothers were, our children will measurably be what we have been. Even the cricket was still. The frosts of approaching winter had hushed his song.