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Title: The fountain : with jets of new meanings
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Spiritualism
Publisher: Boston : William White & Co. New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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. Recall the phrases whichawaken no agreeable emotions. Are they not north-erly and extremely cold words ? Do they not comebreathing fortli the chilly electricities of the frozenHebrides ? Northerly and excpisiteiy bitter words,freighted with storm, and snow and frost—with whichthoughts and feelings of loneliness and desolation aretearfully intermingled. For even so sounds, in thechambers of my inner hearing, all phrases not flowingfrom the fountain of wisdom and love. Language, like the wave of a magicians wand, cansuddenly transform every thing about us. Becausespirit is the fountain of feeling and wishes, and is, there-fore, the cause of words spoken by the obedient tongue. Let us, therefore, avoid, as far as possible, thearticulation of words which casts sweet home intothe dim and distant background of lifes picture. Letus never employ any language which would hang ourmaster-letter upon the scraggy limbs of some fruitlesstree—upon some leafless tree of materialistic knowledge.
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II. Beauty and Destiny of Mother Natures Dak-lings. EATHER GOD calls to His children. He callsthem not through the hending domes and crum- MOTHER NATURES DARLINGS. 21 bling arches of stone churches built with mortal hands.But His fatherly voice comes through the suns and starsof the boundless firmament; through the stately monu-ments and constellations of the. universe ; through theswerveless laws of the stupendous whole; throughthe love-breathings of the interior heart; through thestarry corridors of the eternal temple of Truth;through the winds and waves of innumerable oceans;through the cathedral solitudes and ineffable perfec-tions of Nature. Godless, indeed, is that religion which wouldsilence (or rate as beneath paper books) the voicesof such living bibles and perpetual preachers as fruit-trees, wild flowers, beautiful birds, whispering bees,sobbing seas, sighing winds, snow-covered mountains,and the grand old pines and mighty oaks bending withthe weight and majesty of centuries

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