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"Know Christ and judge religions by him; don't judge him by religions, and then complain because you find yourself looking at him through a blood-colored glass.... "I am saturating myself with Maurice, who is the antidote given by God to this age against all dreary doubtings and temptings of the devil to despair."
She heard a dear familiar voice call out with a perfect shout of welcome: "Jenny! Good girl! How are you! Come along; be careful how you come. That's it.... Six more, and then stop!" Jenny obeyed him she desired nothing else, and her doubtings were driven away in a breath. She went quickly down.
This pretty bird! Oh, how she flies and sings; But could she do so if she had not wings? Her wings bespeak my faith, her songs my peace; When I believe and sing, my doubtings cease. Though the Globe Theatre was, in the opinion of Nonconformists, 'the heart of Satan's empire, Bunyan must yet have known something of Shakespeare. In the second part of the 'Pilgrim's Progress' we find:
Then Hogarth, in a very low voice, said: "They do not know me". "If I may crave leave to retire at once " from the Commander-in- Chief; and Hogarth gave consent. Queer things, omens, doubtings, weird clouds, gathered about Hogarth that night.
It would have shocked him unspeakably, had it dawned upon him that Doctor Keltridge, within himself, was applying profane adjectives to the spiritual doubtings of his rector. It would have astounded him beyond all words, had he known how trivial to the doctor's seasoned mind had seemed his own juggling touch upon the rival claims of Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
"The doctor says it's for my spiritual doubtings," he answered. "Myself, I more than half suspect it's for my sense of humour." "Hm!" Opdyke commented crisply. "They're only husband and wife after the divorce. What's the row?" The answer came only in a little sigh, curiously like a groan. Reed half closed his eyes, and peered up at Brenton through the crack. "Mental growing pains?" he queried.
I never perplexed him with my own doubtings. I solved what I could of his, I was coming to believe little by little that there was a clearer, better light than that I walked in. I was hoping that he might find it and walk in it. I even dreamed, sometimes, to myself, that he would yet learn how to show it to me.
Despondency was sent for; for a post was come, and brought this message to him: Trembling man, these are to summon thee to be ready with thy King by the next Lord's Day, to shout for joy for thy deliverance from all thy doubtings. Now, Mr. Despondency's daughter, whose name was Much-afraid, said, when she heard what was done, that she would go with her, father. Then Mr.
A certain board in the floor creaked when he trod on it, and she found herself listening, each time, for the creaking of this board. She was sorry for him, but she could not attach the importance he did to his assumed want of success, nor was she able to subdue the feeling of distaste with which his doubtings inspired her.
They met in Lone Sahib's room in shrouded and sepulchral gloom, and their conclave was broken up by a clinking among the photo frames on the mantelpiece. A wee white kitten, nearly blind, was looping and writhing itself between the clock and the candlesticks. That stopped all investigations or doubtings. Here was the manifestation in the flesh.
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