Newberry Library - Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman [folder 2 of 2], Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, approximately 1850-1852

Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman [folder 2 of 2], Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, approximately 1850-1852

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Title Writings: School Essays, presumably by Josephine Stedman [folder 2 of 2], Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall miscellaneous material and writings, approximately 1850-1852

Creator Kendall, Nathan R

Date approximately 1850-1852

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 but I think I have enumerated enough for my present purpose. From whom do we receive all these blessings? A Being whom we do not love and adore? I fear too many can answer yes. Yet it must be owing to a want of perception when so much unmistakable evidence is before us. It is the nature of man to worship some Being for the heathen who know nothing of revelation worship dumb animals or some inanimate object, but man has perverted his nature and it is for this he is to blame. The more intellectual portion of the community are not in fault but in comparing the religious with the irreligious we compare the respectable and more intelligent with the degraded and ignorant and that the cause of this difference is their religion is evident. A celebrated writer says "On every page of the Christian revelation it is clearly written, or implied, that our religion is final; that it furnishes the true law of individual growth and the only code of social progress and perfection Its promise is to furnish for the world a system of universal education". If it promise a universal education surely it must be plain and easily comprehended. Therefore I conclude that those who in this age of light and knowledge are not able to see the dependence of man on a Supreme Being and feel that to Him is due all honor, love, and praise must necessarily be deficient in the perceptive region or destitute of feeling any impressions however forcible.

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 9.91343E+14

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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