A CHILD OF NATURE 
ing upon God, he was enriched and 
inspired with glimpses of truth, in- 
sights into life, visions of beauty. 
The cares of the world did not wait 
by his door when he passed out of 
his home into the wide domain of 
Nature ; the tumult of the world 
did not drown the delicate melodies 
which float over sun-swept fields or 
are borne on summer airs through 
the unthronged paths of the woods ; 
the work of the world did not ex- 
haust and benumb the responsive 
power of his spirit when mysterious 
influences, rising like exhalations 
out of the pure deeps of his nature, 
touched him like chords of faint 
melody and set his spirit 
with the divine harmon 
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