The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-10-26
PENCILINGs BY LAMP-LIGHT.

The Minister'S Wooing.
ee1' Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves new work,
thus entitled, which has been running through
/ the pages of the Atlantic Monthly, since De-
cember last, has just been issued, in book form
from the press of Derby & Jackson. 1t is a
work of great power and interest, and tens Of
E thousands are reading it with the greatest sat
isfaction and delight. The press is fleming
with commendatory notices. The N. Z.
Tribune speaks cordially of it thus s: The
merits of this work as novel, though certain
to awaken the admiration, of intelligent read
ers, are by no meaus superior to its high
claims as treatise, if we may SO call it, on
+ the ethics of human passion. Not that the
T writer puts forth any. systematic plan for d,
datic ediication She knows the way to the
human heart too well to labor for the enforce.
ment of formal moral. But she has been
an acute observer Of the myriad forms of our
common nature, and whatever she may have
been taught by experience, has in some way
arrived at profound intutions, which she sets
forth with the wisdom of q sage, as well as
r,the earnestness of a sibyl.' s-s--a--a7,=t ~
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Gems from the Work. at,l.55a s,r
iase Below we give q few of the salient para
graphs Of the work, as a taste Of its qualities
True Love. Focsfs-rsr
True love is natural sacrament and 1
ever young man thanks God for having saved
what is noble and manly in his SOUL it is
when he thinks of offering tito he woman he
loves. so - s1-f- ss ~ 51-'1'Ss'
Il Compens lions. Eak.sl -2HrEas T@JN
IA Katy was like many intensely matter OF fact
and practical women, who have not in them
selves bit of poetry or a particle OF ideailty
bat who yet worship these qualities in other
with the homage which the Indians paid t.
the unknown tongues of the FIRST whites.-
They are secretly weary of certain consclou
dryness of nature iE themselves, and tbi
WEAKNESS predisposes them to idolize the ma
who brings them this unknown gift. Natu
ralists say that every defect of organizatio
has its compensation, and men of ideal nature
find in the favor of women the equivalent fe
their disabilities among men. , ~. =.
The True Priest. f--f N-l5 u
Yet was she at that moment unknown
herself, one of the great company scattere
through the earth who are priests unto &c
-nlinistering between the Divine One, wh
has unveiled himself unto them, and those VII
as yet stand 10 the outer courts of the gre
sanctuary of truth and holiness; Many
heart, wrung, pierced, bleeding with the 81
aud sorrows Of earth, longing to depart, stan
in this mournful and beautiful ministry. b
stands unconscious of the glory of the wo
in which it waits and suffers Gods kin
and priests are crowned with thorns, walkil
the earth. with bleeding feet, and compreheu
ing not the work they are performing s
{ The Path to Heaven.
There is ladder to heaven, whose ba
God has placed in human affections, tend
instincts, symbolic feelings, sacraments of 10
through which the soul rises higher and his
er, refining as she goes, till she outgrows
human, and chsnges, as she rises, into
image of the divine. AT the very top of
ladder, at the threshold of paradise, bla
dazzling and crystalline that celestial grs
where The soul knows self no more, hav
learned, through long experience of de
ton, how blest it is to lose herself in t
eternal Love and Beauty Of which all cart
fairness and grandeur are but the dim t!
the distant shadow This highest step,
sanity elevation, which but few seiec
spirits ever on earth can attain, to raise
soul to which the Eternal Father organi
every relation of human existence and str
every cord of human love, for which
world is one long discipline. for which
souls human education is constantly var
for which it is now torn by sorrow, now he
ed by Joy, to which all its multiplied POI
tend with upward hands of dumb and i
rant aspirations Ultima Thule OF VII