Opis: An Impartial Account of the Life of the Rev. John N. Maffitt - Elsemore Moses

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Some years afterwards, his wife and children followed him to the New World; but whether of their own accord, allured by the report of his success, or at his solicitation, the author is not prepared to specify. His career at the time of their arrival tended southwards. A transient reconciliation, as usual in similar cases, led to more bitter feelings, and a final severance for ever. He kept on his splendid way, moving in affluence, and cheered by idolatrous flatteries, while she and her children found an humble home in New Orleans, and ultimately in Galveston.

In this new home Mrs. Maffit displayed unconquerable energy. Through her own unassisted exertions, her small private boarding-house grew rapidly into a fashionable hotel. Her son was provided for by an honorable post in the naval service. Her two daughters were educated in the polite accomplishments common to the higher classes. They were, indeed, both of exceeding beauty, possessed much of their fathers innate poetry of soul, and finally married wealthy and respectable men, in the sunny land of their adoption; the one finding an excellent husband in Judge Johnson of Brazoria, the other in a Captain of the United States Navy.

It has been asserted by his enemies, "that Maffit justified the separation from his first wife by circulating reports injurious to her reputation; that he strove to hunt her down by calumnies and ceaseless persecution." This is all a naked assertion. Not one particle of proof to that effect has ever yet been offered to the public. We have specified above the real cause of the rupture; his jealous, exacting disposition, and her intolerable temper, causes involuntary on both their parts. For the rest, as to the whole unfortunate affair, the husband always preserved a marble silence, never alluding to it even among his most intimate friends; while the wife was ever both bitter and loud in denouncing the former partner of her bed. But as to who was most to blame, perhaps only one Being in the wide universe knoweth that - He who will judge between them at the last day. We are fully sensible, that such a meagre, ambiguous account as we have given of the matter, will be unsatisfactory to many. The majority of mankind delight in the stimulus of fiery censure. You must stir the cup of denunciation strong, as well as fill it full, to Elease thair palates; not because they are naturally malicious, but because they ave contracted the habit of feeding on deep excitements. They prefer truth, to be sure, all other things being equal; yet they want it mixed with something to rouse the blood, and cause it to boil with indignation and passion. They forget that the cherubic eyes of celestial charity, have ah insight into nature and life, keener as well as warmer, than the cold, snake-like vision of venemous hatred, that monstrous birth of hell, which burrows among the tombs of the dead, and sustains its bloated being on the moral cancers of the living.

During more than half a dozen years, after the culmination of Maffit's star in the American Hemisphere, his labors were principally confined to New England. His occasional visits to the chief cities of the South and West, form unimportant exceptions to the truth of this general statement. There was not a single large town in the North which, escaped the whirlwind everywhere raised by his eloquence. The fact is singular, and requires a more special explanation. His fame being even then co-extensive with the country, his brethren of the Methodist denomination had learned, that his presence in a given place, never failed to bring, as a necessary consequence, an accompanying "revival." Hence, everywhere an urgent anxiety existed to procure his services. Did backsliding abound in a given city, a total dearth of excitement The leading members of the church wo

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Nazwa: An Impartial Account of the Life of the Rev. John N. Maffitt With a Narrative of the Difficulties Attending His First Marriage (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Elsemore Moses
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781331629535
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 32
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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