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That they should fall short of their ideal was but human weakness; and no doubt they had their special failings. They might be apt, in the fervency of their zeal, to speak too disdainfully of all gifts of learning; they might risk alternations of distressing doubt by too presumptuous expectations of visible supernatural help; they might think too lightly of all outward aids to religion.
But the message of Thoreau, though his fervency may be inconstant and his human appeal not always direct, is, both in thought and spirit, as universal as that of any man who ever wrote or sang as universal as it is nontemporaneous as universal as it is free from the measure of history, as "solitude is free from the measure of the miles of space that intervene between man and his fellows."
Never did any human being wish for death with greater fervency or with juster cause; yet she had too just a sense of the duties of the Christian religion to attempt to put a period to her own existence. "I have but to be patient a little longer," she would cry, "and nature, fatigued and fainting, will throw off this heavy load of mortality, and I shall be released from all my sufferings."
But neither the courage of these men, nor the fervency with which they preached and visited among the sick and dying, could so far recommend them to Will that he would set foot in what he called the steeple-houses; so on the Lord's Day we had to dispense with his attendance, and this troubled me; but on the other hand there was comfort in seeing how my poor sister rejoiced in the ministerings of these faithful men.
Beauchamp was a very secondary person on that occasion, and he was unused to being so in the society of women unused to find himself entirely eclipsed by their interest in another. He speculated on it, wondering at her concentrated fervency; for he had not supposed her to possess much warmth. After she was fairly off on her journey, Dr.
Arethusa agreed with fervency. "You'd better thank your Aunt 'Titia then," from Miss Eliza. "She did, Sister," interposed Miss Letitia hastily. "She already did!" "I didn't hear her." "Well, she gave me a lovely hug, and we both know what that means, don't we, 'Thusa dearie?" "Hum ... ph!" from Miss Eliza.
He advanced at a leisurely pace, for there was no call for haste, and he loved to be alone in the vast solitude, where be often held sweet communion with the Great Spirit, whom he worshiped and adored with a fervency of devotion scarcely known except by those who have died for His sake.
He was almost like a man beside himself as he thought of this, and several times his lips pressed the muffler in the fervency of his emotion. Reaching the station he had half an hour to spare before the train would arrive. This gave him an opportunity to give Pedro a feed of oats in a nearby stable, for he well knew that a severe battle was ahead of him.
When everything was quiet the clergyman, descending from the pulpit, repaired to the vestry, and having taken off his gown went into a pew, and standing up began a discourse, from which I learned that there was to be a sacrament on the ensuing Sabbath. He spoke with much fervency, enlarging upon the high importance of the holy communion, and exhorting people to come to it in a fit state of mind.
The good girls of the house, to amuse themselves, and to see how far this growing fervor would carry me, desired me to prepare for martyrdom. I found great fervency and delight in prayer, and was persuaded that this ardor, which was as new as it was pleasing, was a proof of God's love.
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