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Just as I am, without one plea, it begins, the rest I forget or did not catch. Now the ice is broken. Another comes and another, and another, till there is no more room at the Penitent-Bench. They swarm on to the platform which is cleared for them, and there kneel down, and I observed the naked feet of some of them showing through the worn-out boots. So it goes on.
Alice struck up Come, let us to the Lord our God, and we all joined. 'Whew! exclaimed Mrs Simmins, very pretty, but that aint the stuff to bring sinners to the penitent-bench you have to be loud and strong. Ever hear a negro hymn? No, well we will give you one, Whip the ole devil round the stump. As they sang they acted the words.
Hence its delighted self-yielding to traditional symbols, its uncritical emotionalism, its easy slip-back into traditional and even archaic and self-contradictory beliefs: the way in which it pops out and enjoys itself at a service of the hearty congregational sort, or may even lead its unresisting owner to the revivalists' penitent-bench.
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