{"id":1312,"date":"2022-12-09T17:39:05","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/?page_id=1312"},"modified":"2022-12-09T17:57:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:57:49","slug":"pg-xi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/the-pearl-of-days\/pg-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pg. xi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"606\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0007_thumb-606x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0007_thumb-606x1024.jpg 606w, https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0007_thumb-178x300.jpg 178w, https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0007_thumb-768x1297.jpg 768w, https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0007_thumb-910x1536.jpg 910w, https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0007_thumb-1213x2048.jpg 1213w, https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/pearl_0007_thumb-scaled.jpg 1516w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>INTRODUCTION. xi&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Our authoress has learned by experience,&nbsp;<br>and has ably developed in her sketch, some&nbsp;<br>of the most useful and valuable lessons of&nbsp;<br>life. One of these is beautifully and power-&nbsp;<br>fully given in the following words: \u201c How&nbsp;<br>often are opportunities of doing small acts of&nbsp;<br>kindness and usefulness let slip, while we are&nbsp;<br>sighing over our narrow sphere and our&nbsp;<br>limited means of serving God, or benefiting&nbsp;<br>man !\u201d Would it not be a melancholy and&nbsp;<br>unwholesome sentimentality that should sit&nbsp;<br>down and lament over itself as having no&nbsp;<br>space capacious enough for its designs, and&nbsp;<br>no arena worthy of its visions, instead of&nbsp;<br>contenting itself with the many common&nbsp;<br>opportunities of doing good which every-day&nbsp;<br>life supplies? It may&#8217; sound, indeed, well&nbsp;<br>to sigh over oneself in such circumstances,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFull many a flower is born to blush unseen,&nbsp;<br>And waste its sweetness on the desert air;\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and, by appropriating the idea to our own&nbsp;<br>condition, hug ourselves with the fancy that&nbsp;<br>we would, if we might, make ourselves widely&nbsp;<br>useful in our generation; but far nobler,&nbsp;<br>surely, and far more worthy of our imitation,&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTRODUCTION. xi&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Our authoress has learned by experience,&nbsp;and has ably developed in her sketch, some&nbsp;of the most useful and valuable lessons of&nbsp;life. One of these is beautifully and power-&nbsp;fully given in the following words: \u201c How&nbsp;often are opportunities of doing small acts of&nbsp;kindness and usefulness let slip, while we are&nbsp;sighing over our narrow sphere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1018,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1312","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1335,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1312\/revisions\/1335"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1853archive.com\/wp_annotation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}