Primitive Traits in Religious Revivals: A Study in Mental and Social EvolutionMacmillan, 1905 - Počet stran: 323 |
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Strana 106 - The bow of God's wrath is bent and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow; and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God and that of an angry God . . . that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.
Strana 180 - When the light rested upon me, I saw two personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me. . . . When I came to myself again, I found myself lying on my back looking up into heaven.
Strana 180 - I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me. It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered. . . . When the light rested upon me, I saw two personages,
Strana 140 - he declared that in his opinion they were all holy men, who at the last, with all the good men of the heathen world, — Socrates and Plato and Trajan and Marcus Aurelius, — would come from the east and the west and sit down in the kingdom of heaven.
Strana 104 - If we knew that there was one person and but one, in the whole congregation, that was to be the subject of this misery, what an awful thing it would be to think of! If we knew who it was, what an
Strana 265 - Away, haunt thou not me, Thou vain philosophy. Little hast thou bestead, Save to perplex the head, And leave the spirit dead. ***** Why labor at the dull mechanic oar, When the fresh breeze is blowing, And the strong current flowing, Right onward to the eternal shore
Strana 45 - The descendant of the medicine-man of the African clan, " he early appeared on the plantation and found his function as the healer of the sick, the interpreter of the unknown, the comforter of the sorrowing, the supernatural avenger of wrong and the one who rudely but picturesquely expressed the longing, disappointment and resentment of a stolen and oppressed people.
Strana 135 - The English in general, and indeed most of the men of learning in Europe, have given up all account of witches and apparitions as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it. . . . With my last breath will I bear testimony against giving up to infidels one great proof of the invisible world. The giving up /. of witchcraft is the giving up of the Bible.
Strana 75 - and swore he would drink the damned jerks to death. But he could not get the bottle to his mouth, though he tried hard. At this he became greatly enraged, fetched a very violent jerk, snapped his neck, fell, and soon expired, with his mouth full of cursing and bitterness.
Strana 261 - But the deliverance must come in as strong a form as the complaint, if it is to take effect ; and that seems a reason why the coarser religions — revivalistic, orgiastic, with blood and miracles and supernatural operations — may possibly never be displaced. Some constitutions need them too much.