The Ladies' Repository, Volume 6J.F. Wright and L. Swormstedt, 1848 - Methodist Episcopal Church The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900. |
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... eternal throne - together to lift the voice of praise and thanksgiving to Him whose hand has " taken them out of the crowd of this world , " and has " made them which were no people , " mere atoms in exist- ence , driven hither and ...
... eternal throne - together to lift the voice of praise and thanksgiving to Him whose hand has " taken them out of the crowd of this world , " and has " made them which were no people , " mere atoms in exist- ence , driven hither and ...
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... ETERNAL rends the skies ! A mighty voice before him goes- A voice of music to his friends , But threatening terror to his foes , " & c . The angry tempest was now there . The thunder 11 distant climes , or the unmeasured spoils of a ...
... ETERNAL rends the skies ! A mighty voice before him goes- A voice of music to his friends , But threatening terror to his foes , " & c . The angry tempest was now there . The thunder 11 distant climes , or the unmeasured spoils of a ...
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... eternal throne , And silence seem'd to reign supreme - alone . God spake ! and at his awful word , Which broke upon eternal night , The depths of the abyss were stirr'd , And from its gloom uprose the light : Type of the pow'r which ...
... eternal throne , And silence seem'd to reign supreme - alone . God spake ! and at his awful word , Which broke upon eternal night , The depths of the abyss were stirr'd , And from its gloom uprose the light : Type of the pow'r which ...
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... eternal there . Yet man , the rebel , spurned the offered grace Of Him who came a dying world to save , And madly chose to run the downward race , And make the goal of life the dreary grave ; But still God's chosen mildly bade him learn ...
... eternal there . Yet man , the rebel , spurned the offered grace Of Him who came a dying world to save , And madly chose to run the downward race , And make the goal of life the dreary grave ; But still God's chosen mildly bade him learn ...
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... eternal day : All earthly ties are now for ever riven , And man again beholds his God in heaven . A city , glorious as the sun , Now bursts upon my sight ; And all its blest inhabitants Are clad in spotless white . A diadem is on each ...
... eternal day : All earthly ties are now for ever riven , And man again beholds his God in heaven . A city , glorious as the sun , Now bursts upon my sight ; And all its blest inhabitants Are clad in spotless white . A diadem is on each ...
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Page 310 - And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess ; but be filled with the spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
Page 62 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God : and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God...
Page 6 - If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.
Page 128 - But if any provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Page 73 - And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake ? Is he yet alive ? And they answered, Thy servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive : and they bowed down their heads, and made obeisance.
Page 101 - My grace is sufficient for thee : for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake : for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Page 121 - For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be ; yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth ; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Page 53 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 114 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 34 - tis nought to me ; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste, as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.