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Sylvester explained that there were certain legal and formal ceremonies pertaining to the acceptance of the trust to be gone through with, and these must have precedence. "All right," answered the captain. "Let's have 'em all out at once and get the ache and agony over. I'll see you by and by." When Mrs.
With all their adhesion to forms and ceremonies, they are simple and unaffected in their manners, and have a natural repugnance to whatever is meretricious.
Who was responsible for the resurrection? The Church? How wicked its divisions seemed to him! Bishop fighting Bishop the clergy distracted altars discredited sacred ceremonies neglected what did it all mean, if not an interregnum of the Word? Men cannot fight Satan and each other at the same time.
A few references may be given to indicate the views of those who have made special studies of these ceremonies. G. A. Dorsey speaking of the Hopi tribe of the Southwest, states: "When the Hopi are not at work they are worshipping in the Kivas. The underlying element of this worship is to be found in the environment. Mother nature does not deal kindly with man in the desert.
Then his heart was against him: he loved with a strong and eager love the man who had hitherto been his guide, and yearned to follow his footsteps. His tastes were against him: the ceremonies and pomps of the Church of Rome, their august feasts and solemn fasts, invited his imagination and pleased his eye.
Why should one monk want to be accounted more holy than another monk because of some silly ceremony, when all the time their basic beliefs are asmuch alike as one egg is like the other? They all imagine, if we do this or that work, God will have mercy on us; if not, God will be angry. God never promised to save anybody for his religious observance of ceremonies and ordinances.
My servant I despatched to Monterey, Gabriel to the nearest village of the Apaches, and as it was proper, according to Indian ideas, that I should be out of the way during the ceremonies, so as not to influence any chief, I retired with Roche to the boat-house, to pass the time until the new moon. One of the sacred lodge first arose, and making a signal with his hand, prepared to speak:
To the distracted state of the public mind were added prodigies from heaven, exhibiting almost daily threats in the city and in the country, and the soothsayers, consulted by the state and by private individuals, one while by means of entrails, another by birds, declared that there was no other cause for the divine anger, but that the ceremonies of religion were not duly attended to.
Roddy was elected, and consented to undergo the initiation. He was not the only new member that day. A short time after Roddy had been taken into the shack for the reading of the rixual and other ceremonies, little Maurice Levy entered the Williams' gate and strolled round to the backyard, looking for Sam.
As in a dream they had taken part in the sumptuous funeral ceremonies, feeling still that it could not be true he was too young, too brave, too gay, too gracious, to have come so soon to this!
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