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...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...
Henry Dixon Jones is now spending a few days in Cambridge. He will take part in the Palmer matinees in New York, and will then join Miss Margaraite Mather's company...
...beginning of the 18th century came the struggle about church discipline. There was a bursting open of the tight compact body of technical sainthood. Increase Mather, the great exponent of the genius and nature out of which the college sprang, published on the 1st of March, 1700, his "Order of the Gospel Justified." "Sundry ministers of the Gospel in New England" answered him. The question was who should be counted true subjects of the Christian sacraments. When Increase Mather, with his son Cotton was defeated, it was a sign that the earnestness which existed in human life at-large...
BOSTON THEATRE. - Margaret Mather as "Leah...