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Updated: June 11, 2025
"To my eyes," she said, "it has a pathetic air of loneliness pathetic and yet not exactly sorrowful. It knows nothing but its own pure, brave, silent life. It is only pathetic to a worldling worldlings like us. How fallen we must be to find a life desolate because it has only nature for a companion!"
They make use of impious derisions, and turn into ridicule the faithful who credit them, and they censure the conduct of the Church which consecrates them. Such discourse sanctions heresy and licentiousness; worldlings and the indevout applaud it, the tepid seem to consent to it, and the falsely devout approve it; it is a scandal to the weak, and a dishonor to religion.
"Indeed," he said, "then Mary and I will be the only worldlings." "She is very happy with the nuns," said his father, smiling, "and a worldling can be no more than that; and perhaps not always as much." Ralph smiled with one corner of his mouth. "You are quite right, sir," he said.
But old Rolf was singing his morning hymn in clear tones within the castle, and the last lines were these: "Whom worldlings scorn, Who lives forlorn, On God's own word doth rest; With heavenly light His path is bright, His lot among the blest."
But for that matter, even those who professed to be followers of the Christ, who asserted most loudly their belief in the unproved things, fought and struggled and sinned in common with the worldlings, as far as Tom could see. He turned from the window and from the vision, and went to stand with his back to the flickering blaze in the grate.
We may believe of this as we please. It is very probable that he had, in considerable part, spoken nothing but the truth. He was too much of a mocker; one of those worldlings who derive their pleasures from circumstances of higher conventional attraction. He had no feeling for natural romance.
A new book, "L'Homme Machine," has just appeared, and every man swears it is your production, though your name is not affixed to the title-page. The whole city, not only the priests, but the worldlings, are enraged over this book. They declare it is a monster of unbelief and materialism.
How they will realize the terrible mistake worldlings made! 417 Q. Will our bodies share in the reward or punishment of our souls? A. Our bodies will share in the reward or punishment of our souls, because through the Resurrection they will again be united to them. *418 Q. In what state will the bodies of the just rise? A. The bodies of the just will rise glorious and immortal.
They had God and they had gods. They liked the latter best. They gave God formal worship, but they gave the others more active service. Such a kind of religion is a type of much that we see around us; the attempt to be Christians and worldlings, the indecision under which many men labour all their lives, being drawn one way by their consciences, another by their inclinations.
To be devout, to refrain from sinful words and sinful deeds, to shun the vain and dangerous amusements of worldlings, to attend much to prayer and recollection, to love the house and worship of God, to be seen often approaching the sacraments and partaking of the bread of life at the communion rail—even these holy acts are sufficient frequently to draw down on the servants of God the curse and persecution of a world which knows not what it does.
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