Word: mather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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BOSTON THEATRE. Margaret Mather in "Romeo and Juliet...
BOSTON THEATRE. Matinee, 1.45 p. m. - Margaret Mather in the "Lady of Lyons." Evening, 7.45 p. m. - In "Leah, the Forsaken...
BOSTON THEATRE. Margaret Mather in "London Assurance" and Mad Scene from "Faust" and "Marguerite...
...this age of ours; which, with its boasted civilization and culture, is an age of mental incertitude, social destraction and moral confusion. The daily excitement which prevails unfits the soul for meditation. If we could but be transferred to the age of Abraham, or David, or even Cotton Mather, it would be easy to live a sober and godly life. But now the lust of the eye and the lust of the flesh, and of vain glory undermine the higher aims and motives. And then, all the world meets at our door - people of different habits and ways of life...
...wishes are idle. We were born in this age with its luxury, excitement and doubt, and in it we must live. The times, however, are not without their advantages. Excitement, though it prevents quiet meditation, stimulates our divine impulses as well as our bodily passions. The age of Cotton Mather would seem cold to us. Wealth, too, brings with it endless good, and though inseparable from luxury, is the sole support of the great philanthropic schemes which are the mark of the Christian Church...