The Emblem a Gift for All Seasons With New And Elegant Illustrations
The Emblem a Gift for All Seasons With New And Elegant Illustrations
Samuel Osgood
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She appears as the guar- dian angel of Freedom, and bids those who approach to shun the rock upon whkh others have split, or meet the same destructive fate. Philanthropy also has planted innumerable lights among the shallow waters of destruction. Her vivifying rays render the night of vice and immorality so clear that the wanderer as he runs may be admonished of their dangerous precincts. The pure Genius of Tem- perance, clothed in garments of spotless white, sparkling Hh crystal, charms the de...luded victim of unhallowed and in characters of living light illuminates the path in . Ich his unsteady feet are straying, and shows in aU THE LIGHT-HOUSE. 117 their dread deformity the yawning gulf and bitter pangs that have already marked him for their prey. To the son she points to the broken heart of the widowed mother, who, with streaming eyes, upon her knees supplicates the throne of heaven for her inebriate son. To the brother she whis- pers the agonizing sighs of a youthful sister, whose pale and wan countenance tells of nights of sleepless sorrow and days of endless torture ; and to the husband and father she speaks in the thundering tones of conscience of the horrors of his fireside, where an affectionate wife and doating family mourn in heart-rending misery the dreadful depravity of*him, who, before angels and men, voluntarily assumed the relation of their first friend and protector.
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