{"product_id":"2940015206401","title":"Looking Back Across the War-Gulf","description":"AFTER an early life of storm and struggle and rescue, and of years passed in that valley of the shadow of death where souls are tried, some to sink and be lost in the darkness, some to emerge into light and freedom, it behooves the survivor, glad in the returning sunshine of peaceful days, to spend an occa sional spare hour in retrospect. Out of the gloom of the past come the best lights of the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo now, at the beginning of a new decade, though we may feel a certain reluctance in reverting to what \\ve have suffered and es caped,— a feeling that tempts us to exclaim, \"Let the dead bury their dead,\" yet, if we would not altogether neglect the Old for the New,—if we would not wholly forget the great lessons of adversity, —a glimpse, now and then, at some of the more striking phases of the nation's antediluvian life may serve at once to quicken a sense of gratitude to the All-giver, while we trace his guidance of us through evil to good, and to suggest that while we may properly rejoice in what has been effected, there are grave tasks before us, involving broader duties which we should promptly address our selves to perform. Such considerations gave rise to the following paper: to be followed, perhaps, as occasion offers, by one or two more from the same source.","brand":"London : Sweet and Maxwell, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47080651096304,"sku":"2940015206401","price":4.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015206401","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}