This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...coming to a small New England parish, noticed on his first Sunday that instead of the bell being rung in the manner to which he had been accustomed, it was tolled as for a funeral. He wondered who was dead, and at church time he found out. They were all dead. The deacons crept up the aisles like polar bears. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...coming to a small New England parish, noticed on his first Sunday that instead of the bell being rung in the manner to which he had been accustomed, it was tolled as for a funeral. He wondered who was dead, and at church time he found out. They were all dead. The deacons crept up the aisles like polar bears. The singing was what one would expect from Mrs. Jarley's wax works. The Sunday school was a fine demonstration of somnambulism. Very often the grand old words of the hymn bring to us quite a different sense than the one intended: On the Rock of Ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose? There is a provision in the Mosaic law against offering to the Lord a deformed ram or a sick ewe. Shall we offer to him any better, our hours of drowsiness, and reserve the wide-awake ones for the Board of Trade? By all means remember the evening prayer of childhood, but keep even a little clearer the ringing words of Isaiah, "Awake! Awake! O Zion! Put on thy strength! Shake thyself from the dust!" 2. "You in your little corner and I in mine." The words suggest the little reed organ in the primary room and the eager chorus of youthful voices. Happy the church to which they suggest nothing else! Sometimes they inevitably suggest something by no means so inspiring--a lack of real cooperation between members and societies, so that whatever prosecution of the work there is is a case of you in your "little corner and I in mine." It may be a case of too many Caesars who care more about being first in the little Alpine village of some particular branch of work than second or third in the larger Rome. It may be simply the lack of a common vision which results in the different organizations of the church moving like a group of camp followers, instead of marching...
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