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In the field of religion men had for centuries been busied in fusing together the Italian and Hellenic worships partly by external adoption, partly by internal adjustment of their respective conceptions of the gods; and owing to the pliant formless character of the Italian gods, there had been no great difficulty in resolving Jupiter into Zeus, Venus into Aphrodite, and so every essential idea of the Latin faith into its Hellenic counterpart.
"May I never share heaven," said the poor barber, "if your worships are not all mistaken; and may my soul appear before God as that appears to me a pack-saddle and not a caparison; but, 'laws go,'-I say no more; and indeed I am not drunk, for I am fasting, except it be from sin."
That Divine Logos, and theology as a whole, receded further and further aloft into abysmal heights, as it became a mere dreary system of dead scientific terms, having no practical bearing on their hearts and lives; and then they, as the Neoplatonists had done before them, filled up the void by those daemonologies, images, base Fetish worships, which made the Mohammedan invaders regard them, and I believe justly, as polytheists and idolaters, base as the pagan Arabs of the desert.
He worships art instead of God. He loves, he positively loves, the evil of the world. Such men are a curse. They go to people hell." Her feverish eyes glowed with fanaticism. "Oh, mother!" said Catherine, thinking of "William Foster." "They do not care to do good, they do not fear to do harm," continued Mrs. Ardagh. "Why are they not cut off?"
The barber worships his razor; the blacksmith worships his bellows; and the farmer his plough, oxen, etcetera, etcetera. Daniel's forefathers having worshipped these old swords, Veera Chickka continued the time-honoured custom. On a special occasion he invited his relatives and friends to come and join in the worship, and in the feast which always followed it.
But a temper, a spirit, an influence cannot easily be apprehended apart from examples and images; and perhaps the clearest reason is only the exercise of an infinitely elastic idolatry, which with sprightly efficiency finds and worships good in everything, just as the devout, in Duerer's youth, found sermons in stones, carved stones representing saint, bishop, or Virgin.
"Alas! we are taken;" said Edgar, heaving a sigh that would have lifted off a piece of the Cordilleras. M. de Meilhan left the group of promenaders and joined me; we walked side by side. You can imagine, madame, how anxious I was to question Edgar; you can also comprehend the feeling of delicacy which restrained me. My poet worships beauty; but it is a pagan worship of color and form.
Therefore, I pray your Worships, in the most humble manner, not to take my going off amiss, for I was loth to hear others despise you; and remember too that my staying away might result in injury to the truth and the disparagement of your good name. Otherwise you may hope in God, that we, by His aid, will give a faithful, undaunted support to the truth and bring no scandal on our church."
Where the man does not know it, it is because the unfaithful Self, a would-be monarch, has usurped the consciousness; the demon-man is uppermost, not Christ-man; he is down in the crying heart, and the demon-man that is the self that worships itself is trampling on the heart and smothering it up in the rubbish of ambitions, lusts, and cares.
Lawson in trying to cheer him in her absence and filling up the vacant place beside him. "Tell him, dear papa, I shall never forget him for it never." Mr. Verne was deeply affected as he read the last sentence; also was his visitor. "My Marguerite, she cares yet for her doting father. Yes, Mr. Lawson, my child worships those who are kind to me."
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