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Perhaps no Injin tribe, hereaway, is downright idolators but there's some that come so near it, that white gifts ought to be particular about encouraging them in their mistake." "If idolatry is a gift, Deerslayer, and gifts are what you seem to think them, idolatry in such people can hardly be a sin," said Judith with more smartness than discrimination.

These things may perhaps be idolatrous; I cannot make up my mind about it; but to my mind it is the Carnival that is real practical idolatry, as it is written, 'the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play." The Carnival, I observe in passing, is, in fact, one of those very excesses, to which, for at least three centuries, religious Catholics have ever opposed themselves, as we see in the life of St.

They cannot live without some kind of idolatry." "Have I neglected my duty to you, Robert?" "Yes, you know you have; in going to those receptions at your father's house on Sundays." "What has that to do with Mr. Finn?" "Psha!" "I begin to think I had better tell Mr. Finn not to come here any more, since his presence is disagreeable to you.

It often strikes me, Home, that we may be wrong after all in spending so much time on these works of men, who, as Saint Paul tells us, were `wholly given to idolatry. I have just come from a most refreshing meeting at " "I say, Home," cut in Kennedy hastily, "shall I go? I suppose you won't do over any more of the Agamemnon this morning."

The people were not his devotees, but his instruments, his own glory was the god of his idolatry; his faith was posterity; his conscience existed but in his thought; the fanaticism of his idea was quite human; the chilling materialism of his age had crushed in his heart the expansion, force, and craving for imperishable things.

He avoided society, as he was jealous of the fleeting hours, and his close friends were few; but those who knew him loved him to a point just this side of idolatry. Fortuny died at Rome on November Twenty-second, Eighteen Hundred Seventy-two, of brain rupture an instant and painless death.

The African savage, whose imagination is darkened by the hideous rites of his gloomy idolatry, believes that the Evil Spirit is pulling you towards him by the hair. So do the Grotesque and the Terrible mingle with each other." "It is evidently a mere physical accident, a derangement of the stomach; a chill of the blood," said a young Neapolitan.

The heathen are not regarded as outside God's love, and the future embraces them in His mercy even if the present does not. Conscience begins to be recognised and appealed to. Idolatry is not merely forbidden, its folly is exposed; it is treated not only with condemnation, but with scorn. Individual responsibility is insisted on.

But though the progress of impiety was less rapid than in the other kingdom, there was a departure from the living God, and idolatry and immorality prevailed, till they also filled up the measure of their sins. Then, impartial heaven "stretched over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab." * * 2 Kings xxi. 13.

"Idolatry is, I believe, more rampant than ever in Rome," said she; "and I fear there is no such thing at all as Sabbath observance." "Oh, not in the least," said Miss Dunstable, with rather a joyous air; "Sundays and week-days are all the same there." "How very frightful!" said Mrs Proudie. "But it's a delicious place. I do like Rome, I must say.