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Identifier: magazineofamericv18stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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e for the admirers ofMr. Beecher in her collection of bright passagesfrom his published works. She has made a bookthat every one will feel that they must possess.It would be difficult to say which part of this lit-tle volume is best—the shorter or the longer ex-tracts. It is all captivating and instructive.From one of his sermons we find the followingquotation : The church is not obligatory anymore than Fulton Ferry is. I can refuse tocross the river on the ferryboat, and say, I wontpay the cent or two cents ; I am going to swim.I should have a right to swim if I preferred, butI should be a fool if I did. And if you say, Ido not want to join the church, you are underno obligation to join it. And there are few whocan read the last thing in the book, The OldMans Journey, describing the death of TommyTaft (from Norwood), without a constantstruggle between tears and laughter, and a finalfeeling of tenderness and trust in the DivineFatherhood that a thousand sermons would failto produce.
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LAFAYETTE IN 1824. \Engraved from portrait in the collection of Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet.) MAGAZINE OF AMERICAN HISTORY Vol. XVIII DECEMBER, 1887 No. 6 OUR COUNTRY FIFTY YEARS AGO SOME INCIDENTS IN CONNECTION WITH LAFAYETTES VISIT rHE travels of Lafayette through the United States in 1824 and 1825,as the honored guest of the nation, if sketched in minute detail,would introduce the reader to all the distinguished men of America atthat time, and present an exhibition of art, education, industry, agricul-ture, manufactures, the picturesque features of the country, and thecondition of affairs in general, as found in no other popular record. It will be remembered that Lafayette made his celebrated tour throughthe length and breadth of our land six years before the ground was broken,with a silver spade, for the first railroad (at Schenectady, July 29, 1830)in the state of New York. That he came at a period in American historywhen capital had, simultaneously with the marvelous leap forward in

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