The New England magazine . baths, but the slaveattendants and the sweet perfumes are miss-ing, and the love-lorn Arab lad no longerimprovises his passionate songs beneaththe windows of the houri-like maiden whohas enraptured his heart. All this haspassed away forever. DESTINY By JAMES BUCKHAM I know the house wherein my soul shall soul hath built it, or in heaven or not the Judgment Book my fate to tell. No fiat doth await the free-born elects, itself doth loose or writes the soul, so is the edict signed. Immortal life is evolution still. The stream of b


The New England magazine . baths, but the slaveattendants and the sweet perfumes are miss-ing, and the love-lorn Arab lad no longerimprovises his passionate songs beneaththe windows of the houri-like maiden whohas enraptured his heart. All this haspassed away forever. DESTINY By JAMES BUCKHAM I know the house wherein my soul shall soul hath built it, or in heaven or not the Judgment Book my fate to tell. No fiat doth await the free-born elects, itself doth loose or writes the soul, so is the edict signed. Immortal life is evolution still. The stream of being floweth as it will. God doth not hinder. God doth but fulfil. The nature-child shall unto nature Spirit-lover shall the Spirit earth-bound back to stream of atoms flow. My joy of joys my spouse must ever be. I go to that I love. Nor shall I see The Face that eer on earth was dark to me. In life to come, O soul, what shalt thou be?Thine own election and affinity!Absorbed in what hath here absorbed The Spalding House, built about 1670, owned by Molly Varnum Chapter, D. A. R., of Lowell, Massachusetts REDISCOVERING AN OLD HOUSE By ELLEN STRAW THOMPSON How Molly Varnum Chapter, D. A. R., of Lowell, Mass., discovered and revived the almost obliterated beauties of an historic New England house. A typical New England opportunity S1 Li ^..•i±. ; n 1653 two petitions reachedthe Great and General Courtof Massachusetts at the sametime: one signed by twenty-nine men principally fromWoburn and Concord asking for a tract ofland beginning on Merrimack River, at aneck of land next to Concord River, southand west into the country to make up aquantity of six miles square. The second petition was signed by theRev. John Eliot, agent and trustee for theIndians, asking that a grant of land sit-uated between Pawtucket Falls and theConcord River — known as Great Neck — be appropriated for the sole and exclusiveuse of the tribe inhabiting thereabouts. Both petitions w


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