study-periods

Updated: July 15, 2025

There were prayer-meetings, prayer-meetings, prayer-meetings ... between classes, during study-periods, at every odd minute of time to be snatched. Though, my preceding summer, my chief pastime had been to argue against the Bible, all this praying and mental pressure was bound to have an influence on my imaginative nature.... Besides, the temptation toward hypocrisy was enormous.

Harry Kemp - Tramping on Life: An Autobiographical Narrative