Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-06-30
INSPIRATION
A Sermon Delivered hy Rev. n. n.
Rrewn at Unitarian Hall
Jane 5, 1890.
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city editor OF the Dubuque. Iowa
( Times. In the presence of his wti,
he told me the circumstance III ID.
composition. He had been sicb
unto death with typhoid fever and
while lingering in the balance. that
poem forNd Itself into his mind.
81 did not think " it. I did not plan
Il, but it came there and troubled
me Snd got no peace till wife sat by
my bed and took it down aS fast rs I
got strength to whisper {; 90 her
How did YOU, a bay ot Is. ever
write it, asked lady toyEJ r
mine rs she met Raily. the author I'd
Fesius. He replied: II all urt. d,
wrotc itself" Hal IL been written
IN Hebrew 5000 years ago il would
have h,N,u as sacrci - Isaiah 10 day.
y similar neply was given by
Thackcray when aSsei why he mar
ried couple in one II his novels.
IL did not; they m,rri>j them
selves"
F.. T. Roe. in a PnetA,Ns 10 Que Uf
his novels, says; Il ts,u honestly
assert that l have never mAuutsc-
tuued novel. Ny stories
have come with scArtely any wolf.
ton on my part, and the characters
control me-"
The same is told II SJ,,;t ami
Dickens and ot Ms. Stoves Uncle
Toms Cabin.
Edward Belamy tells in THE Ma
tionlist for May - how he came
to write Looking Backward, "
"In undertaking 10 write Looking
Backward l had Al the outset 10
ideS ~ attempting serious con-
tubution ~ the monument of >,.jal
reform, TIE idea ua> ot a mere
literary iSnyA>y, s fairy ,S'e 81 -
ciSl felicity For wear or tor
this idea had been V.cso'y floating
in his uliDi. He ha5 u,a5e 81. ,l>i
his plsl, bi> sketch. when Be- Ssy>e
NC thanks 20 nySe.E Z stumbled
over she destined c2rcar>toae o+tas
new s,cG order" Ts> t,5 1raE
entire change - motive aaS .E
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seem s. ifthat p-v-s- called in
church The Holy Gaa>. aa5
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