1874
1874.1.549) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Indeed I am thankful for the wife and the child—and if there is one individual creature on all this footstool who is more thoroughly and uniformly and unceasingly happy than I am I defy the world to produce him and prove him. In my opinion, he doesn’t exist.
Scripture: Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest?” -- Isaiah 66:1
Work; Date: Letter to Dr. John Brown; February 28, 1874
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3194/3194-h/3194-h.htm
1874.2.550) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: For thirty centuries history has been iterating and reiterating that in a moral fight woman is simply dauntless, and we all know, even with our eyes shut upon Congress and our voters, that from the day that Adam ate of the apple and told on Eve down to the present day, man, in a moral fight, has pretty uniformly shown himself to be an arrant coward.
Scripture: And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. -- Genesis 3:8-13
Work; Date: The Temperance Insurrection; March 26, 1874
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1874.3.551) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: I will mention casually that while I cannot bring myself to find fault with the women whom we call the crusaders, since I feel that they, being politically fettered, have the natural right of the oppressed to rebel, I have a very different opinion about the clergymen who have in a multitude of instances attached themselves to the movement, and by voice and act have countenanced and upheld the women in unlawfully trespassing upon whisky mills and interrupting the rum-sellers’ business. It seems to me that it would better become clergymen to teach their flocks to re spect the laws of the land, and urge them to refrain from breaking them.
Scripture: Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. -- Romans 13:1
Scripture: Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, -- Titus 3:1
Work; Date: The Temperance Insurrection; March 26, 1874
Source: Tales, Sketches, Speeches, & Essays 1852-1890
1874.4.552) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: I left No. 3, (Miss. chapter) in my eldest’s reach, and it may have gone to the postman and it likewise may have gone into the fire. I confess to a dread that the latter is the case and that that stack of MS will have to be written over again. If so, O for the return of the lamented Herod!
Scripture: And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. … Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men. -- Matthew 2:13,16
Work; Date: Letter to W.D. Howells; December 18, 1874
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3194/3194-h/3194-h.htm