Word: godly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Fades slowly from their crowns. The sun-god flings...
...done, but comes as a blessed oasis in the desert of Denison. "The True Shekinah" is a racy bit of writing, which quite demolishes the friends of science, whom it accuses of having "lifted up their heels against us and against science too. They have polluted the temple of God, they have sprinkled swine's blood in the Holy of Holies, they have tried to banish the Shekinah. Have they succeeded? Will they succeed...
Looked we down on God's sun-lighted earth...
...honest livelihood by proclaiming to the world the crimes and cruelties of her husband. Alas! Joaquin Miller has fallen, and the place of the Popular Poet is vacant once more. For the present, we can merely conjecture in what particular way the coming poet will set at defiance God, man, or nature. That he will do so in some way we may safely conclude from the latest productions of those who aspire to hold his future position. In the mean time we must await him with all the patience we can, and be ready to greet him as heartily...
...course it is not for such as he to think of attending any religious duty at the suggestion of another. That would foster in him 'a school-boy spirit,' and, moreover, make him unworthy of his sires. Did they not settle Boston that they might have freedom to worship God, and can he aim at anything less than freedom not to worship him?" Is not this slightly tainted with a school-boy spirit? We think Mr. Kirwan's question, "Really, Bishop Hughes, how old are you?" applicable to the present case...