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The restlessness in her life had been caused by a lack; she had never yet found the man who could be not her tyrant for a time, but her master while she lived. Now she prayed for that, the only peace that she really wanted. While she prayed she was conscious always of the attitude of the Bedouin, which suggested the fierce yielding of one who could never be afraid of the God he worshiped.
The whole family of the ex-President have departed this world, but his memory is still green in this region, where he was almost worshiped so the people say in speaking of him. Forlorn as was the hotel at Union, the landlord's daughters were beginning to draw the lines in rural refinement. One of them had been at school in Abingdon.
He looked up to me, he strove to model himself upon me, he almost worshiped me. One evening, it was in the pulpit! the idea shot through my brain, 'I could do what I like with that man, make of him just what I choose, use him just as I please. And I turned my eyes toward the choir where Chichester sat in the last stall, hanging on my words.
So I thought I would walk up the road and meet you coming back." "What a sweet creature Mistress Putnam is, and both so young for man and wife." "Yes, Jo married early, but he is big enough and strong enough, don't you think so?" "He is a worshiped man indeed. Have you met the stranger yet?" "That Ellis Raymond?
He spent much of his time in thinking about religion. He learned all that he could about Judaism and Christianity; but he was not satisfied with either of them. At that time most of the people of Arabia worshiped idols. Very few of them were Christians. Mohammed was very earnest and serious. In a cave on Mount Hira, near Mecca, he spent several weeks every year in prayer and religious meditation.
Society had not developed enough to give his effort a concrete basis. But, more than this, his mistake was that he did not see that the elements of religion, as well as its perspective, must be altered. Humanity is not an object to be worshiped. The very attitude and implications of worship must be relinquished.
Upon his return to Paris he again brought out plays, and was everywhere admired and worshiped. But the priesthood hated him. He now bought the small estate of Voltaire, and took the name for his own, as was customary at that time. His writings occasionally made light of religion and the priests, and scoffed at their practices.
And while I thought her belief in certain dogmas, such as transubstantiation, and in the fasting and ritual of her High Church observances, to be too trivial for such a really exalted intellect, so near the perception of the essential truth, she held them with such a childlike and tranquil faith that I would sooner have worshiped with her than have disturbed her tranquillity in it.
Another thing most remarkable among those who worshiped by sacrifice in the early times, is that they believed firmly in the reversibility of merit, that is, that the innocent could atone for the wicked. Somehow, they acquired the notion that stainless victims were more agreeable to God than others. God sanctioned this belief among the Jews, and most strikingly on the hill of Calvary.
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