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Identifier: sacredmountains01head (find matches)
Title: The sacred mountains
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Headley, Joel Tyler, 1813-1897
Subjects: Mountains
Publisher: New York, Baker and Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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What strange contrasts this earth of ourspresents. It seems to be the middle spot be-tween heaven and hell, and to partake of thecharacter of both. Beings from both arefound moving over its surface, and scenesfrom both are constantly occurring upon it.The glory from one and the midnight shadesfrom the other meet along its bosom? and thesong of angels and the shriek of fiends go upfrom the same spot. Noonday and midnightare not more opposite than the scenes thatare constantly passing before our eyes. Thetemple of God stands beside a brothel, andthe place of prayer is separated only by asingle dwelling from the hell of the gam-
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MOUNT TABOR. 133 bier. Truth and falsehood walk side by sidethrough our streets, and vice and virtue meetand pass every hour of the day. The hut ofthe starving stands in the shadow of the pal-ace of the wealthy, and the carriage of Divesevery day throws the dust of its glitteringwheels over the tattered garments of Lazarus.Health and sickness lie down in the sameapartment; joy and agony look out of thesame window; and hope and despair dwellunder the same roof. The cry of the new-born infant and the groan of the dyiug risetogether from the same dwelling; the funeralprocession treads close on the heels of thebridal party, and the tones of the lute andviol have scarcely died away before the re-quiem for the dead comes swelling after.Oh! the beautiful and deformed, the pureand corrupt, joy and sorrow, ecstacies andagonies, life and death, are strangely blenton this restless planet of ours. But the past and future present as strange contrasts as the present. What different12 134 SACRED MOU

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  • bookpublisher:New_York__Baker_and_Scribner
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:156
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