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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To John G. Whittier. (search)
ing seeds of goodness and truth. Thanks to the Heavenly Father, that the great opportunity fell into hands that used it so conscientiously and so industriously! For myself, I cannot accomplish much ; but I will try to deserve the acknowledgment, She hath done what she could. One of my old-time friends sent me, for a New Year's present, a book on Siam, by an English lady who was for several years governess there, in the king's family. An English Governess at the Siamese Court, by Mrs. A. H. Leonowens. Boston, 1870. I found it extremely interesting. I have long felt that we Christians greatly wronged the Buddhists. The precepts of Buddha are wonderfully large and holy. Whoever he was, he was a man that dwelt near unto God. His religion is overrun with superstitions and ceremonies, but I doubt whether it is more so than the religion of Jesus in that very large part of Christendom where the Roman Catholic Church is established. Those who have not examined into it curiously, as
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Francis G. Shaw. (search)
propriate; black and gold and that tawny red. I shall not live to see the universally acknowledged brotherhood of the human race, but I rejoice over the ever-increasing indication of tendencies toward such a result; among which the mission of Mrs. Leonowens is very significant. The book, though unavoidably painful in some respects, was very fascinating to me. I read it right through, every word. How the proclamations of the young King of Siam concerning the abolition of slavery and the brother in character is the nakedness of a courtesan and the nakedness of a savage 1 There are no gardens of the human soul anywhere so neglected that God has not placed in them flaming cherubims that turn every way to guard the Tree of Life. Did Mrs. Leonowens's first book ever reach Siam? If so, has she ever heard how it was received? I judge that the young king's desire to emulate President Lincoln must have been in a good degree owing to her influence, though she very modestly says nothing abo
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), Index. (search)
Juvenile Miscellany, VII., 10, 256. K. Kent, Rev. Mr., characterizes Mrs. Child. 55. King, Miss Augusta, letters to, 37, 52, 56. L. Labor question, the, 199. Lafayette's observation of the change in color of the slaves in Virginia, 126. Laws of the Slave States, against intermarriage, 126; against negro testimony, 126; in regard to punishment of slaves, 127; by which the master appropriated a slave's earnings, 128; prohibiting education of the blacks, 128. Leonowens, Mrs. A. H., her book on Siam, 210, 216. Letters from New York, Mrs. Child's, XI., 45. Light of Asia, The, 257. Lincoln, President, faith of the slaves in, 150; reflection of, 183. Lind, Jenny, anecdote of, 63. Linda, the author of, 204. Lives of Madame Roland and Baroness de Stael, by Mrs. Child, XI. Livingstone, Dr., and Stanley, 221. Looking towards Sunset, by Mrs. Child, success of, 185. Loring, Miss, Anna, letters to, 53, 94. Loring, Ellis Gray, 21; letters