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Title: My day; reminiscences of a long life
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice, 1830-1912
Subjects: Pryor, Roger A. (Roger Atkinson), 1828-1919 United States -- Politics and government 1849-1877 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives United States -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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uffering humanity all that Godhad given him. I resolved, when I consented to write this book,that I would not intrude my own feelings and emo-tions upon those who are kind enough to read mystory. I know, alas, I am not the only one uponwhom the tower of Siloam has fallen. We are di-vinely forbidden to believe ourselves more unworthythan those who escape such disaster. The Thorny Path, a painting by P. Stachie-wicz, represents women toiling along a perilous path.On one side is a high, barren rock; on the other aghastly precipice. Safety lies only in the narrowpath, uneven with slippery stones and thick-set withcruel thorns. Two women are central figures in theprocession : one, ragged and drunken and cursingher lot, reels unsteadily against the flinty wall ; an-other treads the same path with bent head, andhands clasped in prayer. A white robe of right-eousness has descended upon the latter, and celes-tial light surrounds her head, albeit the pilgrim feetare unshod and torn with thorns.
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William Rick Pryor. rpHENEV^ YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A8T0R, LENOX AND tVlden foundations. My Day 349 Sometimes a song or picture has taught us morethan many sermons. When Christine Nilsson,standing firm and erect with upward look, sang Iknow/ we were thrilled and surprised into a vividfaith, which had burned with less fervor under theteaching of the pulpit. We had believed, but nowwe felt that we knew, that the Redeemer lives andwill stand in the latter day upon the earth, and feel-ing this, we were comforted. CHAPTER XXXIV IN 1872 Horace Greeley was nominated by theDemocratic party for the presidency, to opposeGeneral Grants second term, and wrote to myhusband : â Dear General Pryor : â I want you to help me in this canvass. I want you togo to Virginia and do some work for me there and at theSouth. Your friend, Horace Greeley. Mr. Greeley had at first opposed the Civil War.He had suffered great mental distress at its approach.He labored with all his might to prevent a resort toarms â

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