in any politician's speech?--"The voice of the Lord is upon the waters;
the God of glory thundereth; deep calleth unto deep; the voice of the
Lord shaketh the wilderness." Where can you find as graceful
speech?--"He shall come down as rain upon the mown grass; mercy and
truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each
other." The day is now dawning in this Western world when taste and
poetic feeling are to flourish. We have got the dollars. We must now get
something for the dollars. Now will the Bible, as ever at such epochs in
the past, shine out anew, the criterion, not only of the soul, but of
the sentiments--the book that is first under the scholar's lamp and
alone in his bedchamber.
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