The fountain : with jets of new meanings . ch living bibles and perpetual preachers as fruit-trees, wild flowers, beautiful birds, whispering bees,sobbing seas, sighing winds, snow-covered mountains,and the grand old pines and mighty oaks bending withthe weight and majesty of centuries. Were I in churchless solitudes remaining;Free from all voice of churchmen or divines,My soul would find in flowers of Gods ordaining, Priests, sermons, shrines. Rightly seen, every thing in nature is a wise andspecial expression of divine affection. Indians andchildren and poets, when in their best moods, see t
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . ch living bibles and perpetual preachers as fruit-trees, wild flowers, beautiful birds, whispering bees,sobbing seas, sighing winds, snow-covered mountains,and the grand old pines and mighty oaks bending withthe weight and majesty of centuries. Were I in churchless solitudes remaining;Free from all voice of churchmen or divines,My soul would find in flowers of Gods ordaining, Priests, sermons, shrines. Rightly seen, every thing in nature is a wise andspecial expression of divine affection. Indians andchildren and poets, when in their best moods, see theFather-Spirit in every place and in all sings the divine love in birds and bees and 22 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. blossoms. And sadly sings the Infinite Spirit throughthe dark-green branches of mountain pines, and in theunutterable sounds of the ebbing and flowing speaks the Eternal in the boundlessnessand unchangeability of those invisible principles bywhich all things live and move and have LOVE AND LABOB. AMONG FLOTTEBS OF GCDS OliDAINING. Nature is Gods conjugal mate; she is, therefore,the Mother of All. Children, like young birds, feelin their hearts the life of heavenly liberty. Girls notless than boys long for the delights of the wide, openfields and far-spreading trees. Boys, naturally, morethan girls, seek bold and boisterous sports. Girls aretaught to seek and personate the graceful, to dwellmodestly in the quiet retirements, and to cultivate the MOTHER NATURES DARLINGS. 23 noiseless, the impractical, and the beautiful. Thisteaching is founded in the belief that girls are bynature finer than boys. While the truth is, they areonly exact counterparts, reversed ; each qualitativelyand in substance like the other; but from exactlyopposite sides of the universe. They are born of thesame mother, nourished at the same fountain, clothedby the same hand, reared in the same home, watchedover by the same guardian angels, pass throu
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