1900, ISBN: 9781130998528

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Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 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. 1900 Excerpt: . . . Every one in the town went to church, attending two services with an hours intermission between. . . . One man in the parish, and one only, never went to church, and he was looked upon with horror as an infidel and wicked person. I do not think the people paid any great attention to the sermon, nor did they regard that as of any consequence. They assisted at the service as the Roman Catholic assists at the mass, --by their bodily presence; that was held to be enough. There can be no doubt that the general condition of congregations in those earlier days was one of somnambulancy, for we find in the old records minutes of the officers whose duty it was to go up and down the aisles during service time with a rod bearing a tuft of feathers at one end and a brass ball at the other; the feather end to wake up the women sleepers, and the brass ball the men. How could it be otherwise with hard working people, and the interminable sermons Still everyone was there, and there was the service of communion, of devotion, of worship, a solemn and awful feeling of the divine presence. After being fitted at the Boston Latin school Clarke entered Harvard college, at the age of fifteen, in 1825. The class was quite a famous one, made more so by the poems Holmes read at its various meetings, and had in it Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rev. William Henry Channing, the nephew of Dr. Channing, of whom one who knew him from a child said, William Henry Channing is the holiest person I ever knew. God beset him behind and before, and laid His hand upon him. In college Clarke made no special mark in any study or in any way. He was liked for his gentle ways and sweet character, but took no high rank as a student. He spoke of Holmess wit and poetry as marked then as in a. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<

1900, ISBN: 9781130998528

Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (… Plus…

Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 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. 1900 Excerpt: . . . Every one in the town went to church, attending two services with an hours intermission between. . . . One man in the parish, and one only, never went to church, and he was looked upon with horror as an infidel and wicked person. I do not think the people paid any great attention to the sermon, nor did they regard that as of any consequence. They assisted at the service as the Roman Catholic assists at the mass, --by their bodily presence; that was held to be enough. There can be no doubt that the general condition of congregations in those earlier days was one of somnambulancy, for we find in the old records minutes of the officers whose duty it was to go up and down the aisles during service time with a rod bearing a tuft of feathers at one end and a brass ball at the other; the feather end to wake up the women sleepers, and the brass ball the men. How could it be otherwise with hard working people, and the interminable sermons Still everyone was there, and there was the service of communion, of devotion, of worship, a solemn and awful feeling of the divine presence. After being fitted at the Boston Latin school Clarke entered Harvard college, at the age of fifteen, in 1825. The class was quite a famous one, made more so by the poems Holmes read at its various meetings, and had in it Oliver Wendell Holmes, Rev. William Henry Channing, the nephew of Dr. Channing, of whom one who knew him from a child said, William Henry Channing is the holiest person I ever knew. God beset him behind and before, and laid His hand upon him. In college Clarke made no special mark in any study or in any way. He was liked for his gentle ways and sweet character, but took no high rank as a student. He spoke of Holmess wit and poetry as marked then as in a. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<