Inglenook, The (1907) . ^ AN is wonderfully and fearfully made. TheI !3 race may become so wrought up over civilor social strife that nothing will satisfy thecall of the faction but the other fellows blood. Thensome martyr lays his life on the altar in order thatthe cause which he represented might live. Sucha life as this was the life of Elijah P. Lovejoy, forwhen the strife between his cause and the mob came,his life was given up, but the cause for which hefought lived on. Mr. Lovejoy was born in ]\Iaine in 1802. Hisearly life was spent in his native state where he re-. Lovejoy Monument, Alt
Inglenook, The (1907) . ^ AN is wonderfully and fearfully made. TheI !3 race may become so wrought up over civilor social strife that nothing will satisfy thecall of the faction but the other fellows blood. Thensome martyr lays his life on the altar in order thatthe cause which he represented might live. Sucha life as this was the life of Elijah P. Lovejoy, forwhen the strife between his cause and the mob came,his life was given up, but the cause for which hefought lived on. Mr. Lovejoy was born in ]\Iaine in 1802. Hisearly life was spent in his native state where he re-. Lovejoy Monument, Alton, lU. ceived his early education and training. He breathedthe pure free air of his section of the country, and whenhe left his home country to join that emigrating bandin the west, the cherished ideas of his youth went withhim into his adopted home in the west. He choseSt. Louis as his field of action, and there early be-came connected with the newspaper business. Hequit this, however, to become a Presbyterian decided that his life work should be that ofpreaching the Gospel, he returned east where in col-lege for two years he better fitted himself for his chos-en work. After that time he returned to St. religious newspaper called the St. Louis Observerwas just starting up, and the company choosing Love-joy as the manager, put him again in the newspaperfield. Under his management the paper flourished for a time, but finally editorials against slavery began to ap-pear. Missouri was at that time a slave state andpublic sentiment immediately
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