A YEAR OF MIRACLE.
A Poem in Four Sermons.
BY WILLIAM C. GANNETT.
CONTENTS.
1. Treasures of the Snow.2. Resurrection.3. Flowers.4. The Harvest Secret.
“The thoughtful reader will findA Year of Miraclea source of genuine and permanent delight.”—Boston Transcript.“A delightful companion for an hour of meditation.”—Zion’s Herald.“The sermons are wonderfully beautiful. They are veritable poems, and poems of a high order.”—Woman’s Journal.“The theme is hackneyed: the thing is not, neither isMr.Gannett’s performance. Such discourses would grace the best pulpit anywhere.”—Boston Advertiser.“The several subjects chosen are as hackneyed as the theme of a school-girl’s composition; but the treatment is singularly rich, fresh, and sparkling.Mr.Gannett combines in happy measure qualities rarely found together,—a wide range of reading and observation, with brooding thought and solitary fancy, the naturalist’s keen sight and the poet’s deeper insight. His study of the outer world is close and careful, his use of scientific detail and illustration apt and striking, with nothing of parade and pedantry. In almost every page, we feel the finer touch of genius, and a deep but unobtrusive spirit of worship.”—Literary World.“We doubt if more exact and beautiful writing can be found than in these four sermons. They are not sermons, judged by ordinary homiletic methods; but, by their effect in awakening the devotional spirit, they are eminently so. They are full of science, and yet full of religion, so far as faith in and reverence for the Supreme enter into religion. This is a little book, but a full book.”—Christian Advocate.“If the author ofThe Imitationhad the genius of mediæval piety,Mr.Gannett has the genius of the religion of this nineteenth century. Here is reverence, here is poetry; but here is nature and science, and reason, too, all taken up in the solvent of a living faith. The four seasons of the year, in these four discourses, suggest four festivals of love and trust, symbolize four natural sacraments of religion. Scarcely anywhere will be found thinking and believing more suggestive and helpful in these questioning times than under the second theme, ‘Resurrection.’”—St.Louis Spectator.“Mr.Gannett has written some of the most undying religious hymns and lyrical poems in the language, and puts a wonderful amount of soul into whatever he writes in this little volume. The titles give an inkling of what the little book contains. It is one of the most delightful expositions of the glory and divinity of the outer world that has ever been written. It is in the vein of Wordsworth and Emerson and Lowell and Herbert; and whoever enjoys God’s great world outside of man’s heart will be glad to have it near him in his joyous and devout moments.”—Standard of the Cross.For sale by Booksellers everywhere, and sent by mail postpaid on receipt of price by
“The thoughtful reader will findA Year of Miraclea source of genuine and permanent delight.”—Boston Transcript.
“A delightful companion for an hour of meditation.”—Zion’s Herald.
“The sermons are wonderfully beautiful. They are veritable poems, and poems of a high order.”—Woman’s Journal.
“The theme is hackneyed: the thing is not, neither isMr.Gannett’s performance. Such discourses would grace the best pulpit anywhere.”—Boston Advertiser.
“The several subjects chosen are as hackneyed as the theme of a school-girl’s composition; but the treatment is singularly rich, fresh, and sparkling.Mr.Gannett combines in happy measure qualities rarely found together,—a wide range of reading and observation, with brooding thought and solitary fancy, the naturalist’s keen sight and the poet’s deeper insight. His study of the outer world is close and careful, his use of scientific detail and illustration apt and striking, with nothing of parade and pedantry. In almost every page, we feel the finer touch of genius, and a deep but unobtrusive spirit of worship.”—Literary World.
“We doubt if more exact and beautiful writing can be found than in these four sermons. They are not sermons, judged by ordinary homiletic methods; but, by their effect in awakening the devotional spirit, they are eminently so. They are full of science, and yet full of religion, so far as faith in and reverence for the Supreme enter into religion. This is a little book, but a full book.”—Christian Advocate.
“If the author ofThe Imitationhad the genius of mediæval piety,Mr.Gannett has the genius of the religion of this nineteenth century. Here is reverence, here is poetry; but here is nature and science, and reason, too, all taken up in the solvent of a living faith. The four seasons of the year, in these four discourses, suggest four festivals of love and trust, symbolize four natural sacraments of religion. Scarcely anywhere will be found thinking and believing more suggestive and helpful in these questioning times than under the second theme, ‘Resurrection.’”—St.Louis Spectator.
“Mr.Gannett has written some of the most undying religious hymns and lyrical poems in the language, and puts a wonderful amount of soul into whatever he writes in this little volume. The titles give an inkling of what the little book contains. It is one of the most delightful expositions of the glory and divinity of the outer world that has ever been written. It is in the vein of Wordsworth and Emerson and Lowell and Herbert; and whoever enjoys God’s great world outside of man’s heart will be glad to have it near him in his joyous and devout moments.”—Standard of the Cross.
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