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Burnish it all! I'll go along to church 'fore all men's eyes next Lard's Day ever is." "A gude thought, tu. Religion's a sort of benefit society, if you look at it, an' the church be the bank wheer us pays in subscriptions Sundays." "An' blamed gude interest us gets for the money," declared Mr. Blee.
We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religion's opportunity not the decorous religion of theologians, but anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort not any one pompous or tearful were caring for us up in the sky.
'I don't want to be rude, Miss Mary, Luke rejoined, 'but what right have you to say that their religion's any worse or falser than your own? 'Everybody knows that it is that cares about religion at all, Mary replied with coldness and, in the last words, a significant severity. 'It's the faith, Mary, my dear, interposed Mr. Boddy, 'the faith's the great thing.
"Come-Outer religion's all right, for those that have that kind of appetite, but havin' it passed to me three times a day, same as I've had it at your house, is enough; I don't hanker to have it warmed over between meals. If I shipped Matildy aboard here she and the Reverend Daniels would stand over me, watch and watch, till I was converted or crazy, one or the other." "Well, there's Angie. She "
The moment we speak of the St. Bartholomew, it seems as if Charles IX., Catherine de' Medici, and the Guises issued from their grave to receive that sentence; and God forbid that we should wish to deliver them from it; but it hits the nameless populace of their day as well as themselves, and the hands of the people, far more than the will of kings, began the tale of massacres for religion's sake.
I rejoice and am glad when I'm reviled and persecuted by the hounds of hell, and spoken evil against falsely for my religion's sake." "Now, Gholson, that's nonsense!" "O oh! that's what it's for! that's what he meant by 'slang-whanging. That's what it's for from first to last, no matter what it's for in between; and I know what it's for in between, too, and Ned Ferry knows.
He rose slowly from his seat on the bench in front of the pulpit for he was a deacon and turned squarely at them; speechless just then, for he was choking with rage. "My brethren," he said at length slowly, for he would not speak until he had himself under control, "I think we all remember what it is to be persecuted for religion's sake.
The spirit's hour religion's hour the visible suggestion of God in space and time now once definitely indicated, if never again. The untold pointed at the heavens all paved with it. The Milky Way, as if some superhuman symphony, some ode of universal vagueness, disdaining syllable and sound a flashing glance of Deity, address'd to the soul.
"What can you do to stop it?" she retorted defiantly, "Give me religion -I guess you'd tell me. Religion's all right for those on top, but say, it would be a joke if I got it. There ain't any danger. But if I did, it wouldn't pay room-rent and board." He sat mute. Once more the truth overwhelmed, the folly of his former optimism arose to mock him.
But, however this may be, and we are not called upon now to offer any opinion on these matters, the so-called revelations are wonderfully silent on those topics which sentimentarians apparently erect into the supreme test of a religion's truth or falsity.
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