1875
1875.1.553) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: ...table covered with a fanciful cloth and laden with the presents— ... a rattling mob of Sunday clad dolls from Livy and Annie, and a Noah’s Ark from me, containing 200 wooden animals such as only a human being could create and only God call by name without referring to the passenger list.
Scripture: And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth. . . . There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah. -- Genesis 7:1-3, 9
Work; Date: Letter to Charles Langdon; March 19, 1875
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3194/3194-h/3194-h.htm
1875.2.554) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: You see, what I want to drive into the Congressional mind is the simple fact that the moral law is “Thou shalt not steal”—no matter what Europe may do. … If we only had some God in the country’s laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get Him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.
Scripture: Thou shalt not steal. – Exodus 20:15
Work; Date: Letter to W. D. Howells; September 18, 1875
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3194/3194-h/3194-h.htm
1875.3.555,556) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: The Tumble-Bug turned on his heel uncrushed, unabashed, observing to himself, “If it isn’t land tilted up, let me die the death of the unrighteous.”
Scripture: Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, -- 1 Corinthians 6:9
Scripture: The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: -- 2 Peter 2:9
Work; Date: Some Learned Fables, for Good Old Boys and Girls, In Three Parts; Part First; 1875
Source: https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/some-learned-fables-for-good-old-boys-and-girls
1876
1876.1.557) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Long ago, when I read that to Mrs. Clemens, she made no comment; another time I created occasion to read that chapter to her aunt and her mother (both sensitive and loyal subjects of the kingdom of heaven, so to speak) and they let it pass.
Scripture: Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. -- Matthew 6:10
Work; Date: Letter to W. D. Howells; January 18, 1876
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3195/3195-h/3195-h.htm
1876.2.558) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Carlton insulted me in Feb. 1867, and so when the day arrives that sees me doing him a civility I shall feel that I am ready for Paradise, since my list of possible and impossible forgivenesses will then be complete.
Scripture: For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: -- Matthew 6:14
Work; Date: Letter to W. D. Howells; April 25, 1876
Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3195/3195-h/3195-h.htm
1876.3.559) Quote, Reference, or Allusion: Poor, sad-eyed stranger! There was that about his humble mien, his tired look, his decayed-gentility clothes, that almost reached the mustard seed of charity that still remained, remote and lonely, in the empty vastness of my heart, notwithstanding I observed a portfolio under his arm, and said to myself, Behold, Providence hath delivered his servant into the hands of another canvasser.
Scripture: And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. -- Matthew 17:20
Work; Date: The Canvasser’s Tale; December, 1876
Source: http://www.online-literature.com/twain/3270/