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. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...out of all churches to worship God in a way of their own. They used to say that in every home people ought to pray as in a temple; that all days are the Lord's days--not only Sundays, which men have set apart from the rest of the week. Theodore went about among the Cape Cod men, and when he saw how ...
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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. 1890 edition. Excerpt: ...out of all churches to worship God in a way of their own. They used to say that in every home people ought to pray as in a temple; that all days are the Lord's days--not only Sundays, which men have set apart from the rest of the week. Theodore went about among the Cape Cod men, and when he saw how they tried to make all life religious, he thought their ways were very good ways, though they belonged to no Church and held no special creed. Now the village of West Roxbury was, as has been said, a quiet country place: but not many miles away lay the busy city of Boston, and, further south, the still larger city of New York. News came to the quiet village from these noisy cities, where men lived closely packed in dingy, narrow streets: tales came of sin and sorrow that went on there, and of wars and crimes in the great world beyond. Theodore Parker had a friend named George Ripley living near Boston, in a pretty home with many books and pictures about him, and everything to make life gay and pleasant. But it made George Ripley so sad to hear these tales of the sin and trouble among the people in great cities, that he lost all joy in his own happy life, and thought the best way to mend the world would be to set the example of a way of living in which there should be neither very rich nor very poor. So he sold his pretty home, and formed a little colony called Brook Farm, where he and his wife, and some other people who thought like himself, had all things in common, and worked together on their daily wants. Brook Farm lay just one mile from Theodore Parker's house. Often he crossed the meadows to see and talk with these brave friends of his; there he used to find them busy ploughing and sowing, cooking and washing; but they did not forget that...
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