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The Voice Of The Intangible
Rare, old western adventure
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First published January 1, 1936
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Albert Robison Lyman
38 books4 followersAlbert R. Lyman was one of the first settlers of Grayson (now Blanding), Utah, and wrote extensively about the history, culture, and geography of San Juan County, Utah.
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January 20, 2012
This book was written by a relative of mine and was loaned to me. It took me a while to get through it, but it has a wonderful message, a captivating story, and the characters were so endearing (and a couple not so endearing). I loved the sweet relationship between the father and his son in the midst of their hardships and how those hardships lead them to the "Intangible". I also learned so much from the way the father dealt with (and taught his son to deal with) a very horrible man, an enemy who they treated as a friend and whose sad life was a culmination of his horrible choices. A wonderful message of what kind of life/choices lead to peace and happiness and what kind of life/choices lead to misery and unhappiness. I would love to have my children read this book someday if I can find a copy of this book somewhere.
A couple of my favorite passages were:
"Son, this is a rather unpleasant experience right now, but it will be a good experience to have had."
"The bright hopes we cherish in our hearts are not there just to be crushed. There are better things ahead of you than you are even able to hope for."
"He has been a wonderful teacher to me; I might have some of his habits if he hadn't taught me how contemptible they are. I feel sorry for him. You'll see the time when he hasn't one friend. His stolen property will slip out of his hands like fish."
"Who said, 'My kingdom is not of this world, else would my servants fight'?" He looked up to make sure Ben recognized the quotation. "I've made a close study of manhood, and I'm holding up for my son the very highest type. So far you have been with me, holding to my standard, making my choice your choice. Now you want to turn squarely around and take the course Josh would take. You hate him and you love me; he's trying by the power of his hate to get you to do wrong, and I'm trying by the power of love to get you to do right. We've reached a point right now where it is to be shown who has the greatest power to lead you, Josh or me. In my love I offer what I know to be good; in his hatred he offers you the vile things of his depraved nature. Now which of us are you going to choose?"
"Ben," he would say, looking into young roger's hollow eyse, "a man's the feller that takes 'is medicine and jest keeps a hangin' an' a rattlin'. The grumbler an' the bellyacher might be as big as a cow, but 'e ain't no man."
"This is the sterling experience of life - experience is the only process to make men- the goal is to become a man, not a thing."
"You see son," suggested Fred Roger, "we are rid of Josh, but not rid of our man-making experience. You'll find out some time that things like this, and others much more serious, are arranged long ago for our most profitable development."
A couple of my favorite passages were:
"Son, this is a rather unpleasant experience right now, but it will be a good experience to have had."
"The bright hopes we cherish in our hearts are not there just to be crushed. There are better things ahead of you than you are even able to hope for."
"He has been a wonderful teacher to me; I might have some of his habits if he hadn't taught me how contemptible they are. I feel sorry for him. You'll see the time when he hasn't one friend. His stolen property will slip out of his hands like fish."
"Who said, 'My kingdom is not of this world, else would my servants fight'?" He looked up to make sure Ben recognized the quotation. "I've made a close study of manhood, and I'm holding up for my son the very highest type. So far you have been with me, holding to my standard, making my choice your choice. Now you want to turn squarely around and take the course Josh would take. You hate him and you love me; he's trying by the power of his hate to get you to do wrong, and I'm trying by the power of love to get you to do right. We've reached a point right now where it is to be shown who has the greatest power to lead you, Josh or me. In my love I offer what I know to be good; in his hatred he offers you the vile things of his depraved nature. Now which of us are you going to choose?"
"Ben," he would say, looking into young roger's hollow eyse, "a man's the feller that takes 'is medicine and jest keeps a hangin' an' a rattlin'. The grumbler an' the bellyacher might be as big as a cow, but 'e ain't no man."
"This is the sterling experience of life - experience is the only process to make men- the goal is to become a man, not a thing."
"You see son," suggested Fred Roger, "we are rid of Josh, but not rid of our man-making experience. You'll find out some time that things like this, and others much more serious, are arranged long ago for our most profitable development."
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