{"id":15939,"date":"2016-08-18T13:35:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lowelljames-russell\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T13:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T18:35:18","slug":"lowelljames-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/lowelljames-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"LOWELL,\nJAMES RUSSELL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (February 22, 1819\u2013August 12, 1891), was an American poet, editor and diplomat. He was the son of Charles Lowell, minister of the West Church in Boston. A graduate of Harvard Law School, James Russell Lowell wrote poetry and prose which received wide acclaim. His well-known works include: <i>Fable For Critics,<\/i> 1848; and <i>Biglow Papers,<\/i> 1848\u201367. He edited the <i>Atlantic Monthly,<\/i> 1857\u201361; and the <i>North American Review,<\/i> 1862\u201372. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>He received honorary degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge, and became a professor at Harvard. Lowell was appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes as U.S. Minister to Spain, 1877\u201380, and England, 1880\u201385, where he was immensely popular. James Russell Lowell was once asked by Francois Guizot (1787\u20131874), the French historian and diplomat, \u201cHow long will the American Republic endure?\u201d Lowell replied:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>As long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.&#65279;2522&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:9.0pt;text-indent:18.0pt;line-height: normal'>On November 20, 1885, in his <i>International Copyright,<\/i> James Russell Lowell stated:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In vain we call old notions fudge,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>And bend our conscience to our dealing;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm; margin-left:18.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>The Ten Commandments will not budge,<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt; margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:normal'>And stealing will continue stealing.&#65279;2523&#65279;<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>In volume II of his <i>Literary Essays,<\/i> 1810\u201390, James Russell Lowell wrote <i>New England Two Centuries Ago<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.&#65279;2524&#65279;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(February 22, 1819\u2013August 12, 1891), was an American poet, editor and diplomat. He was the son of Charles Lowell, minister of the West Church in Boston. A graduate of Harvard Law School, James Russell Lowell wrote poetry and prose which received wide acclaim. 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