Sketches Of New England Divines Classic Reprint

Author : Harriet Beecher Stowe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527652798
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Religious Studies written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Religious Studies: Sketches and Poems No one can read Mrs. Stowe's writings as a whole with out perceiving how constant is the appeal to the religious sensibilities. Her greatest book, which took captive the humblest reader and such a genius in literature as George Sand, was in a marked degree a religious book; and again and again, even in playful scenes, there is a quick passage to the religious nature. The explanation is in the simple fact that Mrs. Stowe herself from early girlhood to her latest years was governed by religion, and it is not sur prising, therefore, that an entire volume Should be gathered from her writings exclusively given over to direct expres sion of religious feeling and thought. She would gladly, especially in her later life, have con fined herself to writing of this sort, for the realities of faith, especially the presence of the Divine Master, came to have a commanding power over her mind and heart, and to make her almost impatient of much concern about adventures of the ordinary sort. Even the reminiscence of the racy life of the New England of her childhood could not absorb her. I would much rather, she writes in 1876 to her son Charles, have written another such a book as Footsteps of the Master, but all, even the religious papers, are gone mad on serials. The book which she was then writing was Poyanne People, and the reader knows what a thread of religious experience runs through that lively narrative. 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.