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But no description can show how far from that, how opposite to that, is the tone, the spirit, the object, of the Friday-evening meeting at Plymouth Church. Have we "Liberals" as we presume to call ourselves ever devised anything so well adapted as this to the needs of average mortals struggling with the ordinary troubles of life? We know of nothing.
What room in a benevolent heart for joy, when a point of time, a moment's space removed us to that heavenly place, or shut us up in hell? From the time when we were accustomed to attend such meetings, long ago, we never saw a Friday-evening meeting till the other night, when we found ourselves in the lecture-room of Plymouth Church.
'He does not even refuse to take money, Solomon Barzinsky exclaimed to Peleg the pawnbroker, as they passed the blasphemous window on their way from the Friday-evening service. 'Why, what would be the good of keeping open if you didn't take money? naïvely inquired Peleg. 'Don't you know it's forbidden to touch money on the Sabbath? 'Of course, I know that. But if you open your shop !
I sailed to Cronstadt for some years regular. Cronstadt is in Rooshy, Mr. Ellery." "Russia, pa," snapped his daughter. Then she changed the subject to church and parish affairs. They spoke of the sewing circle and the reading society and the Friday-evening meetings. "The Come-Outers are so vexed with us," tittered Miss Annabel, "that they won't even hold prayer meeting on the same night as ours.
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