Inhaltsangabe
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. 1915. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V Eeligious Impbessions: The Puritan Sunday; Sunshine And Shade "Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone f" Cervantes. "when the forthcoming Eebellion was in the air, the parson was as one who smelleth the battle afar. He was a war-horse in theology, "pawing in the valley and going on to meet the armed men." I loved his rattling quiver and glittering spear, when employed in the service of his country; but when they turned against my personal sins I was in terror. His theology was sometimes inflammable enough to set the world on fire, and after one lurid sermon I dreamed that it was ablaze. Tongues of flame licked up rivers, lakes, oceans. The insatiate jaws were crunching the solid earth, when I awoke in an agony of fear. All this I hid in my heart, and lived in terror of the judgment day. Sunday was a period of gloom, terminated at sundown; when, having "kept" Saturday night, I broke loose, and as fast as my feet would carry me, ran to a neighbor's to borrow his New York Ledger and lose my real fears in imaginary ones. "Capitola, or the Hidden Hand" so fascinated me that I lived in a dual world while her star (a baleful one) was in the ascendant. The angel who watches over childhood mercifully guarded me, and the days of the Ledger were soon numbered. In an old attic I happened upon some torn copies of Fredrika Bremer's novels. Their wholesome flavor corrected my taste, and with a clean tongue I henceforth eschewed "yellow" literature. As I grew older, the Puritan Sunday lost its terrors, which were largely the result of a lively fancy playing about the unseen. There was no mother to win the confidence of the little girl, and to expel thoughts of the nether world with visions of the azure. I was lighthearted by day, but sometimes wh...
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