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"If he could keep me alive as long as till next July, to see how those turnips answer with the new dressing, I'd see him fast enough," he said peevishly; "but he can't; and I don't want to hear his preaching." "But it would be a comfort to you, surely, Stephen, to have him talk to you a little about the goodness and mercy of God. He won't tell you hard things, I'm sure of that."
The preaching of the priest is a rare thing in an exclusively Catholic country. The mass is his livelihood, and if he be the head of a community, or a popular priest, he often makes a profit in taking in masses to say, and letting out the job at a discount.
Well, I suppose she has; but I shall have my say. The congregation has certainly not improved, as you seem, in your preposterous modesty, to suppose, but suffered by your leaving it. The attendance, I should think, is about the same. . . . But I am afraid that the society is gradually losing strength. I have been preaching some Sunday-evening sermons to the merchants. Have n't you heard of them?
Ah, through some shameful knavery of the men, into whose hands he has fallen, he is drunk! Even the women can see that; and now he throws his arms wildly and raises his voice until the whole great circle hears it. He is preaching! Ah! kind Lord, for a special providence now!
Will looked up with dazed eyes, and, seeing who had called him, burst into a loud and boisterous laugh. "So you'll begin with your darn preaching," he remarked, gaping. For reply, Christopher reached out, and, seizing him by the shoulder, shook him roughly to his senses. "What's the meaning of this tomfoolery?" he demanded. "Do you mean to say you've made a beast of yourself, after all?"
Inspired by the preaching of a fanatical priest named Nicholas, twenty thousand boys of the average age of twelve years assembled at Cologne. They came from all ranks of life, and the heir of the proud noble marched side by side with the son of the humblest peasant. Sisters, priests, and servants joined the throng, swelling the numbers and adding to the confusion.
There had been a Mission at the chapel the previous week, and a preaching friar had frightened the wits out of her with his description of "the bad place."
Ignace to love and suffer in loving would spare him further, since there was no sign of Miss Clairville's return. His preaching could not fail, because he brought to it a fine original gift and an automatic precision and certainty resulting from the excellent training of his Church, but between Sundays the time dragged.
They told him they would take his word, and he pulled down his pants and said: "Well, you see I was detailed to attend to the calf, and I carried the calf up stairs, assisted by Bill Smith who is now preaching in Chicago; got a soft thing, five thousand a year, and a parsonage furnished, and keeps a team, and if one of those horses is not a trotter then I am no judge of horse flesh or of Bill, and if he don't put on an old driving coat and go out on the road occasionally and catch on for a race with some worldly-minded man, then I am another.
"I'm to admire your frankness, am I? You say you're afraid. But you said just now you had such power." "If I had taken your advice and devoted myself to the rôle of Vates I should have lost my power. Nobody would have listened to me. I began that way, by preaching over people's heads. The Museion was a pulpit in the air. I stood in that pulpit for five years, spouting literary transcendentalism.
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