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...ission which contra- 59 Sinclair Lewis dicted all his defense of duty and Christian patience, and at each admission he had a curious reckless joy. He... ...hem opened with a welcome by the mayor of Monarch. The pastor of the First Christian Church of Monarch, a large man with a long damp frontal lock, in-... ...hich the entire world must tend, if there’s to be a decent, well-balanced, Christian, go-ahead future for this little old planet! Once in a while I ju... ...itorials on “The Manly Man’s Religion” and “The Dollars and Sense Value of Christianity,” which were printed in bold type surrounded by a wiggly borde... ...the poor while Mrs. Drew read aloud from earnest novels. Though Dr. Drew’s theology was Presbyterian, his church- building was gracefully Episcopalian... ...bout religion; it just stirs up bad feeling.” Actually, the content of his theology was that there was a supreme being who had tried to make us perfec... ...th all sorts of Vice and not get nicked for it, see how I mean?” Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that ... ...—shame if he doesn’t take part in a real virile hustling religion. Sort of Christianity Incorpo- rated, you might say. “But with all reverence. “Some ...

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...e mere land, and that’s all they do own; but it was our folks, our Jews and Christians, that made it holy, and so they haven’t any busi ness to be t... ..., and ain’t got any more sense than to try to reason out a thing that’s pure theology by the laws that protect real estate!” Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark ...

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...at man!’ And he had swung the gate of his little garden in coming out to meet me, not half an hour ago. So cheerful of spirit and guiltless of affecta... ...house, we crossed to the latter; the white surplice was hanging up near the door ready to be put on at any time, for a funeral service. The cheerful e... ...sed to have sunk of its own weight into my heart, I seemed to have happily come, in a few steps, from the churchyard with its open grave, which was th... ... letter this morning, and do thank you most kindly for the interest you have taken about my dear husband, as well for the sentiments yours contains, e... ...oing so.’—‘ And could none be got?’—’Well, a piano could Charles Dickens 28 even have been got for nothing, but these unfortunate dis- sensions—’ Ah!... ...- rate parade of 2 bright examples who had had down Euclid after the day’s occupation and confinement; and 3 who had had down Metaphysics after ditto;... ...other travellers who have similarly revisited the Island and conscientiously inspected it, I have satisfied myself that it contains no vestige of Mr. ... ... filthy degra- dation of the abject and vile Roman States, I had as much difficulty in working my way with the Bottle, as if it had bottled up a compl...

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... had many friends there too, for he not only would fight the blacksmith at theology, never losing his temper, but laughing the whole time in his pleas... ...- votion, which his beloved Jesuit priest had inspired in him, speculative theology took but little hold upon the young man’s mind. When his early cre... ...ones had had no instructors save their mother, and Doctor Tusher for their theology occasionally, and had made more progress than might have been expe... ...e in one of his blunt ways and ordinary rough manner. He called her by her Christian name often and fondly, was very soft and gentle with the children... ... tian Hero,” and had all the Guards to laugh at him for his pains, for the Christian Hero was breaking the commandments con- stantly, Westbury said, a...

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...ege, and have learned, no doubt, a great many things. You are a student of theology, too, and have looked into these matters. Who should know, if not ... ... could set to and blaspheme a bit, and shake my fist at the sky! But I’m a Christian woman, Seppy,—a Christian woman.” “Shall I send for the minister,... ...r a man as was! Eh, Seppy, I’m a Chris tian woman, but I’m not like other Christian women; and I’m glad I’m going away from this stupid world. I’ve n... ... have the meeting at his own kitchen hearth? Ho! ho! Oh dear me! But I’m a Christian woman and no witch; but those must have been gallant times!” Doub... ...een the instrument both of the Devil’s sacrament in the forest, and of the Christian in the village meeting house. But, at any rate, it had been a par...

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...to tell of) they found one strange thing – that he had made a will, like a Christian, and the widow got the lot: all his, they said, and all Black Jac... ...- ing out. Here was nothing: the stove was alight, the smoke going up in a Christian manner; all was shipshape and Bristol fashion. T o be sure, there... ...u care to give me them, I’ll perhaps take more stock in what you call your Christianity.” He was silent for a moment. Then he smiled. “You are rather ... ...y,” says I. She jumped with joy, and sang out. “You haven’t made much of a Christian of this one,” says I to Mr. Tarleton. “We didn’t think her one of... ...rk very hard.” “I’ll have to hand you over to Mr. Tarleton,” said I. “Your theology’s out of its bearings, Uma.” However, we stuck to this business al...

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... momen- tary pause. Who would be Hoopdriver on a night like this? “But the Christian name?” “Christian name? My Christian name. Well—Chris.” He snappe... ... Our coats and cuffs might get crumpled—” “Wasn’t there a Clarke who wrote theology? He was a draper.” “There was one started a sewing cotton, the onl...

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...r intimation,—was her own,—unique, pecu- liar, unimpaired by the brimstone theology of her day. Her poems reflect this direct relation toward the grea... ...ng merit Is freely certified By every broom and Bridget Throughout a Christian land. Neglected son of genius, I take thee by the hand. ...

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...s to Amelia, to see whether she was awakened, whether she was a professing Christian and so forth, and finding from the simplicity of Mrs. Osborne’s r... ...me—I’m—I’m not well. Take me home.” She did not know she called him by his Christian name, as George was accustomed to do. He went away with her quick... ...the honourable mention made of his name in the Ga- zette, filled this good Christian lady also with alarm. Would his 80 V anity Fair – V olume Two au... ...t her house without carrying respectfully away with him piles of her quack theology and medicine. O, my dear brethren and fellow-sojourners in V an- i... ...ity in the purchase of cups, spoons, pap-boats, and corals for this little Christian. How his mother nursed him, and dressed him, and lived upon him; ... ...aid the timid Lady Jane imploringly. “Y ou invite such company to it as no Christian lady should meet, and I will have my horses to-morrow morning.” “...

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... was not specifically of differ- ent race. But this is a Utopia as wide as Christian charity, and white and black, brown, red and yellow, all tints of... ...ernment, and the State. Plato and Campanella—for all that the latter was a Christian priest— carried communism to its final point and prescribed even ... ...tion. The samurai will 183 H G Wells have emerged above these things. The theology of the Utopian rulers will be saturated with that same philosophy ... ...- caped the delusive simplification of God that vitiates all ter- restrial theology. They will hold God to be complex and of an endless variety of asp... ...mpis and Saint Augustin’s City of God that we must seek for the Utopias of Christianity. *Chapter the Seventh, section 6. 198 A Modern Utopia In the ... ...ies, the general tendency of progressive thought was at one with the older Christian tradition which ignored “race,” and the aim of the expansive libe... ...in- terwoven with this anglicising tendency, which was also, by the bye, a Christianising tendency, was a strong disposition, derived from the Roussea...

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...beloved by queens in barbaric lands, and recon- ciled whole nations to the Christian faith. He was martyred, and took it very calmly and beautifully— ... ... H G Wells hundred letters beginning: Sir: Referring to your advt. in the “Christian World” for an im- prover in Gents’ outfitting I beg to submit mys... ...the employer. “My Manchester buyer came to me as a boy of twelve. You’re a Christian?” “Church of England,” said Mr. Polly. “H’m,” said the employer a... ...oks he read during those fifteen years! He read ev- erything he got except theology, and as he read his little un- successful circumstances vanished a...

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...hrough no sin of his own, that caused him to be so unfortunate; and a real Christian and pattern, in spite of outsides, though as true a gentleman as ... ...and per ship—my barque Priscilla; and better men than you left, or I ‘m no Christian.’ Temple said briskly, ‘Thank you, captain.’ ‘You may wait awhile... ...ll thank me, if you won’t. But it’s not thanks I look for: it’s my bounden Christian duty I look to. I reckon a couple o’ stray lambs equal to one los... ...; he was old Rippenger’s best theological scholar—always got the prize for theology. Well, he was a confirmed sneak. I’ve taken him into a corner and ... ... soon after placed a twisted note in my hand. It ran: ‘Miss Goodwin (whose Christian name is Clara) wishes very much to know how it has fared with Mr.... ...at sensation beset me in turn. We shrank oddly from uttering one another’s Christian name. I was the first with it; my ‘Ottilia !’ brought soon after ...

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...bank in Clayton. We had met first in the “Par- liament” of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Swathinglea; we had found we attended simultaneous... ... 14 In the Days of the Comet for blatant unbelief. And at the Y oung Men’s Christian Asso- ciation I presently made the acquaintance of Parload, who t... ... two genuinely intended displays of perfervid tenderness, broke out toward theology, sociology, and the cosmos in turgid and startling expressions. No... ...u mean?” “That he’s wrong. I don’t think he proves his case. I don’t think Christianity is true. He knows himself for the pre- tender he is. His reaso... ...in touch with a pretence of mutual deference. The ethi- cal superiority of Christianity to all other religions came to the fore—I know not how. We dea... ...y emptinesses as inexplicable now as the cruelties of medieval Venice, the theology of old Byzantium. And they ruled and influenced the lives of nearl...

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... like this; and were she here’—his lip trembled—’I might bear me less as a Christian man should. My sweet Catherine! Take care of her, John; she will ... ...r orders, and set forth for Italy, there to pursue those deeper studies in theology and language for which Padua and Bologna were famous. It was many ... ...hearty, good-natured gossip. ‘An’ what’s the name of ye?’ He gave his real Christian name; and added that he came from Glenuskie, where the good T uto... ... Murdoch, even when most desirous of bringing himself to die in a state of Christian forgiveness; nor could any power on earth show any of the crimina... ... around. It had been almost a mission of conversion, to awaken a spirit of Christianity in the country, that had so long been a prey to anarchy. The K... ...hem. And then it was that all Malcolm had learnt of the true spirit of the Christian triumphed—not only over the dark Keltic spirit of revenge, but ov...

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... hockey. She had never seen her sitting on tables nor heard her discussing theology, and had failed to observe that the graceful figure was a natural ... ...ncomfortably silent when he was near her, and to whom she felt it was only Christian kindness to be consistently pleas- ant; and a lax young man of fi... ...a little dubious as ever, mingled with the stream of history and wrote her Christian name upon the police-court records of the land. But out of a bela... ...it, miss!” cried one. “Kick aht at ‘em!” though, indeed, she went now with Christian meekness, re- senting only the thrusting policemen’s hands. Sever... ... “I have a confession to make.” 222 Ann Veronica “I wish you would use my Christian name,” he said. She attended to that, and then dismissed it as un...

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...church in Lantern Y ard, ac- cording to which prosecution was forbidden to Christians, even had the case held less scandal to the community. But the m... ... Marner—they were the fostering home of his religious emo- tions—they were Christianity and God’s kingdom upon earth. A weaver who finds hard words in... ... and come short o’ Their’n.” Poor Dolly’s exposition of her simple Raveloe theology fell rather unmeaningly on Silas’s ears, for there was no word in ...

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...it had not been for Madame DE Colleville, I—” “Are there demonstrations in theology?” asked the profes- sor of mathematics, naively, plunging headlong... ...ment. “I love you as we love a noble nature struggling against misfortune; Christian charity enfolds both the strong and the weak; its treasure belong... ...he philanthropists; I do not write about it; I simply act; I am pledged to Christian charity. The ambition of our friend Thuillier becoming known to m... ...ot sufficient; there must be some act or acts of great devotion, and truly Christian self-abnegation.” 203 Balzac “Religion enjoins humility upon us,... ...e that a man should be so foolish!” ex- claimed Madame de Godollo; “wasn’t theology bad enough, that he must needs bring in astronomy too?” And her ve... ...hap- piness to be received by Pere Anselme. He is thought the model of all Christian virtues, and yet the good father is a very learned mathematician.... ...wo qualities were ab- solutely incompatible.” “But you did say that a true Christian could not attend to any species of work on Sunday. If so, Pere An...

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... in his horn- book had brought home to him his heavy responsibilities as a Christian and a sinner. And now here was his wish taking shape before him, ... ...portant fact of Mr. Mounce’s summing up his conclusions before the Muse of Theology took flight? He should be happy, he said, if the tide served, to v...

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... uity of the family. It is as it was in the days when the crusaders of the Christian world invented these symbols by which to recognize each other; th... ..., madame,” he added, “that a young man brought up by you, trained by me to Christian ideas, a fervent Catholic, a child who has lived as a lamb withou... ... of true reverence for the family, had promised to give him a thorough and Christian education. Calyste thenceforth received the instruction which the... ...end- ing and understanding all things; she can talk metaphysics and music, theology and painting. You will see her, as a ma- ture woman, what the rest... ...hich she attaches great and passing joys, which die. Y ou see love such as Christianity has created it,—an ideal king- dom, full of noble sentiments, ... ...pe from you; nothing is changed but my divinity. I was a pagan; I am now a Christian, that is all— Except this: you have taught me that to love is the...

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...hat next may be effected.’ So we talked about painting, poetry, and music, theology, geology, and philosophy: once or twice I lent her a book, and onc... ..., interrupting this unusual flow of eloquence. ‘Hate him, Helen! Is this a Christian spirit?—you hate him? and he so good a man!’ ‘I don’t hate him as... ...e for under my roof would force me to moderate my expenses and live like a Christian—not to speak of all the prudence and virtue you would instil into... ...e, it was rather provoking; for, though he refused to drink like an honest Christian, it was well known to me that he kept a private bottle of laudanu... ... farewell to it and you. Whenever I meet you on hon- est ground or under a Christian roof, I shall be glad to see you; but never more shall you entice... ...aith and hope, and conscience and reason, and ev- ery other requisite to a Christian’s character, if you choose to employ them; but all our talents in...