Memoir Of William Ladd

Author : John Hemmenway
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428991708
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book The Apostle of Peace written by John Hemmenway and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Apostle of Peace: Memoir of William Ladd When America comes to make up her jewels, or to compare them with the jewels of other nations, it is doubtful if she will be able to show a life of longer radius and serener light than the life of william ladd. This Maine farmer arose by the power breathed into his soul, to the very first order and rank of that nobility of the great world which numbers but a few men in a single age. Every country has its illustrious patriots, whose souls can only take in and worship its sole good and glory. But philanthropists, with hearts large enough to take into their embrace fifty nations, with a pulse of sympathy and good-will beating warm and ceaseless for each and all, - such men have been few from the birth of time, and they are few to-day, though increasing in number. They are the only order of nobility recognized and honored by the empire of humanity. Patriots may make a more bril liant lustre, but it is more temporary, and confined to local illumination. Often a shade of national selfishness discolors its aspect to other countries. The light it sheds upon its own land may have been kindled at the ashes of their pros perity. It may, to the eyes that most admire it, shine the brighter for the darkness it has made around it. But true hearted philanthropy, of William Ladd'a order of will and work, ascends to a higher level of view and life. As from the mount on which Christ sat and preached his immortal sermon, it looks of! Upon the great world in the pathway of his eye and with the pulse of his heart. It looks from such a lofty point of vision that the boundaries between nations seem but the narrow streets of one great city, not walls to sunder its habitations. From such a height it cannot or does not notice whether the faces on one side be black, and on the other white, or a shade between. To its car the human voice has but one language, the human heart but one divine fashion of sensibility, the human soul but one stamp of origin and value. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.