Reminiscences Of Rev Wm Ellery Channing D D PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ... the faithful use of moral means would prepare Congress for national action by-and-by. And thus he iorecast the programme of the Free-Soil party, in which Mr. Maun afterwards acted so powerfully, as may be seen in his volume of Ahtislavery addresses; and whose final issues have demonstrated that it was the compromises and not the constitution of the United States which made the "union with Hell" (as the abolitionists phrased it), and that so long hindered the accomplishment of the national motto, E pluribus unum. I must also refer to the Memoirs of Horace Mann for the letter which Dr. Channing wrote to him on occasion of his being made Secretary of the first Board of Education of Massachusetts, and the memoranda Mr. Mann made in his diary of Dr. Channing's agreement with and support of him in the view, that, without moral education, intellectual education became a public calamity, -- the reign of Satan instead of the Son of God on earth. Neither of these friends was ever disappointed in the other in all their intercourse on this great subject. I find I have lost a letter of Dr. Channing's that I received soon after my removal to Salem, in which he acknowledged some drawings I had sent him, which I had traced from Flaxman's outlines.1 One was of Justice soaring away from the wicked of the Iron Age and rising up before the throne of the benignant Jupiter, while Minerva sits pensively by. The other was of Orestes at the feet of the saddened Apollo, who could only temporarily, by his personal presence, put the Furies to sleep within the precincts of his own temple. I had said to Dr. Channing, that, with all my Christianity, I felt myself as much a prey to the Furies as the poor Orestes; and was fain to repeat his prayer to Apollo to the...