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Updated: June 23, 2025
Jupiter, Jehovah and Mumbo-Jumbo are alike creations of human fancy, the products of ignorance and wonder. Which is the God is not yet settled.
D' ye mind, Barry?" "I'd be glad to have Gordon with me," growled Barry surlily, "if by having him I can get into action. I too am weary weary to death but it's at the mystery and theatrical mumbo-jumbo rather than at inaction. What's your scheme now?" "This, gentlemen." Vandersee produced a folded map and smoothed it out on the table.
For the Samoan besides, there is something barbaric, unhandsome, and absurd in the idea of thus growing food only to send it from the land and sell it. A man at home who should turn all Yorkshire into one wheatfield, and annually burn his harvest on the altar of Mumbo-Jumbo, might impress ourselves not much otherwise.
His fine features were for a moment warm with fervour and feeling, then, suddenly, he thought of the great world outside all creeds, of the millions and millions of human beings who neither know nor accept Christ, of the Oriental races with their intricate and beautiful systems of philosophy, of savage tribes, conquered and unconquered, of fierce yet brave Turkish warriors who are, with all their faults, at any rate true to the faith they profess and lastly more than all of the thousands upon thousands of Christians in Christian lands, who no more believe in Him whose holy name they take in vain, than in any Mumbo-Jumbo fetish of untaught barbarians.
For the Samoan besides, there is something barbaric, unhandsome, and absurd in the idea of thus growing food only to send it from the land and sell it. A man at home who should turn all Yorkshire into one wheatfield, and annually burn his harvest on the altar of Mumbo-Jumbo, might impress ourselves not much otherwise.
I say sometimes, such a blockhead Idol, and miserable White Mumbo-jumbo, fashioned out of deciduous sticks and cast clothes, out of extinct cants and modern sentimentalisms, as that which they sing litanies to at Exeter Hall and extensively elsewhere, was perhaps never set up by human folly before.
It needs a scientific telescope, it needs to be reinterpreted and artificially brought near us, before we can so much as know that it was a Sun. So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo-Jumbo and Indian Pawaw be utterly abolished.
Barbarian as he was, he was quite astute enough to guess that Europeans cared nothing in their hearts for all his mumbo-jumbo. He believed in it himself, but they did not, and their very unbelief made him respect and fear them.
Can one in calm thought so regard the Infinite and Absolute Being All-Wise Causeless All-Powerful All-Present All-Possessing Lacking Nothing Perfect One as acting and performing thus, and from these motives? Is not this as childish as the childishness of the savage, and barbarians, in their Mumbo-Jumbo conceptions? Let us leave this phase of the subject.
Mainly she treated diseases by the laying on of hands, and the best that could be said of her as to that was she preyed on the rich and would take no patients she thought were short of at least fifty pounds to spend for her mumbo-jumbo and gimcracks.
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