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The church at Hanover, N. J., has a territory six miles by four, in which no other church has been established. This old Presbyterian congregation has peopled its countryside with its chapels and has assembled the chapel worshippers regularly at its services in the old church at the graveyard and the manse.
She pushed the gratified Jeanne before her, and strove to make her way through the congregation, her hands all the while trembling with repressed anger. It was no easy business. Devout female worshippers, unwilling to disturb themselves, glared at her with furious looks, whilst all agape they kept on singing.
The chief priests appreciated the convenience which worshippers coming from a distance would find if they could obtain all the means of worship within the temple enclosure itself. The hierarchy or its representatives seem also to have appreciated the opportunity to charge good prices for the accommodation so afforded.
Doubtless the feast, which in some cases came to crown the sacrificial rite, may, where it was practised amongst peoples who believed that persons partaking of common food became united by a common bond, have come to be regarded as constituting a fresh bond and a more intimate communion between the god and his worshippers who alike partook of the sacrificial meal.
Meanwhile the worshippers did not return to their homes, for in many cases they had journeyed twenty or thirty miles, but lay about in the verdure, refreshing themselves with fruit, principally the delightful green cocoa-nuts, which furnish meat and drink both cool and refreshing in the extreme, as well as nourishing.
Also these people, it seems, are worshippers of the moon." "No, Baas, they are worshippers of the devil and that White Witch is his wife." "You had better keep your thoughts to yourself, Hans, for whatever she is I think that she can read thoughts from far away, as you guessed last night. Therefore I would not have any if I were you."
In A.D. 789 Charlemagne attempted to suppress stone-worship, and to destroy the stones themselves. In Spain, where, as in France, megalithic monuments are common, the councils of Toledo in A.D. 681 and 682 condemned the "Worshippers of Stones." Moreover there are many cases in which a monument itself bears traces of having been the centre of a cult in early or medieval times.
'It is not a nice word, said Miss Adeline. 'But there's nothing else that expresses it, Aunt Ada, returned Gillian. 'I agree to a certain degree, said Miss Mohun; 'but still I am not sure what it does express. 'Just what girls of that sort are, said Gillian. 'Mere worshippers of any sort of handle to one's name. 'Gillian, Gillian, you are not going in for levelling, cried Aunt Adeline.
Anne hardened her heart against him. At the church gate she turned and faced him coldly. "If you're not going in," said she, "you needn't come any further." He glanced at the belated group of worshippers gathered before the church door, and became more than ever polite and chivalrous and protective. "I must see you safely in," he said, and took up his stand beside her on the mat.
Mahomet naturally gave offence to the Koreish, Keepers of the Caabah, superintendents of the Idols. One or two men of influence had joined him: the thing spread slowly, but it was spreading. Naturally he gave offence to everybody: Who is this that pretends to be wiser than we all; that rebukes us all, as mere fools and worshippers of wood!
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