Newberry Library - Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, ca. 1850

Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, ca. 1850

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Open book Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers 1842-ca. 1940 [Box 5]

Title Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman, Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, ca. 1850

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date ca. 1850

Place California, Lake States, Northeastern States, United States, Indiana--LaPorte, Panama--Isthmus of Panama

Language English

Subjects Washington City and California Mining Association, Chronically ill, Courtship, Domestic relations, Families, Farm life, Gold miners, Husband and wife, Migration, Internal, Overland journeys to the Pacific, Teacher-student relationships

Description Correspondence, writings, documents of Nathan Kendall and wife Abby J. Reed Kendall of Massachusetts, Indiana and Illinois, including many letters to each other before and after marriage in 1857, as well as numerous letters to and from members of their families, friends and former students. Some correspondence and documents concern travel to California begun in 1849.

User-Contributed Transcription Ladies and GentlemenLadies and Gentlemen, Ocean, Air, Earth, Stars are filled with our Father's writings. We have met together this evening to hear something of the texts contained in the Book written by God's own hand & spread out before us as upon the bosom of the Universe. Before we can comprehend what man has written we must understand the characters they use & also the relations those characters have to each other when classified & arranged. Even so we must understand the alphabet which God has used in his writings before we can understand what he has written in Nature. A Book although filled with the most glorious truths is as meaningless as a piece of blank paper to a person who cannot read. Even so he who has never learned to interpret the characters God has inscribed upon all material things to tell us of himself knows comparatively nothing of those glorious writings constantly before him. Our Father has given us two Revelations the scientific or the Revelations contained in the Bible, & both of these Books can be understood without effort & patient industry, but, each is replete with gems of knowledge & likely repays the student for all his labor in a coin that neither mold nor rust can corrupt. Knowing as we do that all things around us are covered with the hand writing of the eternal how strange it is that we spend so little time in investigating his messages to us! Geometry is but the name for those principles in accordance with which Jehovah formed the Universe balanced the planets in their orbits & jammed nights curtains with glittering Worlds. When we study the science of astronomy we are investigating those great truths concerning our Father which he has written in the heavens with the stars. Geology teaches us the manner in which God formed this Earth our

Archival Collection Title Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers

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Call Number Midwest MS Kendall-Reed Box 5 Folder 107

BibID 991342528805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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