Samantha at the World's Fair by Marietta Holley
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fell by faith, this wuz riz up by it.
And my feelin's as I looked at that Temple wuz large and noble-sized as you will find anywhere. A Temple consecrated not so much to the Almighty in Heaven, who don't need it, as to God in Humanity--to the help of the Divine as it shows itself half buried and lost in the clay of the human--a help to relieve the God powers from the trammels of the fiend-- A Temple--not so much to set, and pray, and sing in, about the beauties of our Heavenly home, as to build up God's kingdom on earth, show forth His praise in helpin' His poor, and weak, and sinful. My feelin's wuz a sight--a sight to behold, as I sot and looked at it--that tall, noble, majestic pile, and thought of the way it wuz built, and what it wuz built for. But as we drove on agin, my mind got swamped once more in a sea of immense figgers that swashed up agin me--elevators that carry grain up to the top of towerin' buildin's, 10,000 bushels a hour, and then come down its own self and weigh itself, and I guess put itself into bags and tie 'em up--though he didn't speak in particuler about the tyin' up. And then he praised their stores--one of 'em which employed 2,000,400 men. And then he praised up their teliphone system, so perfect that nothin' could happen in any part of the city without its bein' known to once at police headquarters. And then he praised up agin and agin the business qualities and |
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