Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-12-25
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MODERN PILGRIMs-Shp&ing the Improvements
IN Travel, and the newest methods OF reaching
the Celestial City. BY George Wood. author
OF Peter Schemih in America. in two vols
Boston; Phillips, Sampson. & Co.
These volumes are dedicated to Rev. Francis
Wayland, President of Brown University, and the
author says in his preface, " they are written n
that ne should " resume his pen" The plan Of
the book, he also states, was suggested by Haw
thorne's inntable allegoYy of the Celestial-Rail .
road. The Modern Pilgrims is an allegory. the
scope aud design OF which appears TO be TO de
msnstrate the fact, that amid all the modern de.
wees and Improvements of the Christian worldto
eifecta an easier and safer journey to Heaven there
Is, alter all, no road so safe and certain as the
good old way marked out in the Book of Life.and
no guides Sc reliable as those who, by diril q in
sprauon, IN the early ages Of the world set IN in
Gods itnpeiiishable land marks for the Guidance
o. az tne future generations that were to follow
The Modern Pilgrims are not taken from the low
~ walks OF life, but from the most aristocratic So
ciety in New York city. aud as the reader follows
them in their peregrinations from .'sBabylon the
Last, to the Paradiseo of God, he is introduced
IN succession to the company of men Of all cfeeds
and all denominations, and IS enabled to learn
something of the views and doctrines Of all. un-
ill., IN the last chapter, when the Heavenly CITY is
in sight, the Pilgrims find their only hone Of
reaehng IT IS across the Jordan, not in boats or
upon brides, but by actual immersion in its cool
refreshing. and sin ahsoving waters To very
large portion Of the Christian world, the Modern
Pilgrims will be pleasant and instructive compan
ions, and especially to those of the authors own
faith. 1t is for sale BY John Keith K co.
NORTH SIDE VIEW or SLAVERY TIE RpFu-
GEE or, The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in
Canada, related by themselves with an ac.
count Of the history and condition of the col
ored population Of Upper Canada BY Benz.
drew. Boston: John p. Jewett & Company.
New New York Sheldon, Lamport, & Brakeman.
This work is valuable addition TO the anti
slavery literature Of the country II embraces
the narratives OF the lives OF more than hnn-
dred iugitiyes from our American prison house OF
bondage, taken down by the author from their avn
lips, during sojourn in Canada, made Tor the
especial purpose of learning the condition. mast
and present, of the large and rapidly increasing
body Of American refugees who have escaped he.
yond the boundaries Of the land Of their birth.
TO enjoy, under the inhospitable skies Of the
North, those God given rights OF which they
were deprived at home. The book is a complete
refuiation Of the absurd but oft-repeatedsstory
that the negro s incapable of taking care of him.
self, and will be perusrd with interest and profit
by all wko feel an interest in the moral intellect.
ual, and worldly prospects of this long suffering
and much abused African race. For sale by Ii.
Baker & Company. +,
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