This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...with the kid, and the calf with the lion, in a millennium of good cheer. In spite, however, of such generous breadth of intention, the practical, effort was narrowing as far as general conversation was concerned. Each one of the three ministers had his own word to say and his own blow to strike; each was so much in the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...with the kid, and the calf with the lion, in a millennium of good cheer. In spite, however, of such generous breadth of intention, the practical, effort was narrowing as far as general conversation was concerned. Each one of the three ministers had his own word to say and his own blow to strike; each was so much in the habit of making his ideas converge to one point, exhorting and admonishing his followers to avoid the heresies of the neighboring churches, it would have seemed hardly consistent to exchange even obvious remarks on the weather with men to agree with whom might be a dangerous concession. Dr. Cutler, being twice the age of the other clergymen, had been requested to ask a blessing on the feast, and performed his part with such zeal and unction that Mr. Neal, merely as a simple act of loyalty to his church, felt impelled to remark impressively on top of his faint "Amen," that after a long and rigorous Lent the late Easter had ushered in a most beautiful Easter-tide. "Easter-tide?" repeated Mr. Robinson, with a swift snort of astonishment, as if he found the phrase obnoxious. The Baptist minister had stubbly yellow hair, which stood up aggressively, and an alert glance, which seemed to offer battle to gentle, pensive Mr. Neal. Mrs. Neal, the mother, was of a different stamp from her son. She loved a fray. She was a large-boned woman, of strikingly intellectual appearance; her spectacles helped to give her a bland serenity of aspect from which nothing could move her. She now turned full upon her adversary, her glasses looming like two moons. "Perhaps, Mr. Robinson," she remarked, with an air of benignant pity, "you are unacquainted with our church festivals. It seems strange to us that all the world should not kno...
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