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be deplored in comparison with loss of moral earnestness.”
“Oak Glen, June 30. ...Finished this afternoon my perusal of the ‘Memoir’ of Mr. John Pickering.
Felt myself really uplifted by it into an atmosphere of culture and scholarship, rarely attained even by the intelligent people whom we all know ...”
“July 12. .... I pray this morning for courage to undertake and fervor to accomplish something in behalf of Christian civilization against the tide of barbarism, which threatens to over-sweep it. This may be a magazine article; something, at any rate, which I shall try to write.”
“ 1 P. M. Have made a pretty good beginning in this task, having writ nine pages of a screed under the heading: ‘Shall the frontier of Christendom be maintained and its domain extended?’
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