This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ... spurned, persecuted and oppressed, cursed by those they have blessed, injured by those they have benefited. Their sun of happiness seems set for ever, their weeping eyes, they are assured, will never again behold the light of morn. There are those whose lives are spent in the treadmill of toil. Yet, though they slave ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ... spurned, persecuted and oppressed, cursed by those they have blessed, injured by those they have benefited. Their sun of happiness seems set for ever, their weeping eyes, they are assured, will never again behold the light of morn. There are those whose lives are spent in the treadmill of toil. Yet, though they slave and stint, their raiment and lodging and food are scarcely better than those of the beggar. A pauper's future stares them in the face as they think of the time when age or sickness will unfit them for toil. In their souls 'tis dark--not a cheering star in their sky to kindle even the faintest glint of hope. Still others there are who are fastened down on painful sick-beds, helpless, hopeless, comfortless. Long they have hoped and fervently they have prayed for a relief that refuses to come. For them, and for their dear ones who patiently and self-sacrificingly watch and hope and pray at their bedsides, the sun seems set; soon it shall be night, deep night--the night that has no morning. Yet others there are who walk with dark weeds aboif their heads and with still darker weeds about their hearts. For them it seems perpetual night. No ray of light penetrates their crape to herald the dawn of a brighter and happier day. With husband or wife, with parent or child, with near or dear in the grave, with bright dreams vanished, with fond hopes shattered, with sweet expectancies frustrated, life, they feel convinced, can have naught else in store for them but the despair and misery of a starless and joyless night. And yet it seems to be an established law that darkness must precede the dawn. It is written athwart the skies; it is written upon the face of the earth. We see its sway throughout the vegetal kingdom. Before the rooting seed can bask in sun...
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