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Thomas' second appearance is at the last supper. When Christ says, "Whither I go ye know, and the way ye know," he interrupts saying, "We know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way?" Here we have a perfect illustration of the agnostic spirit of this age, a spirit the fault of which is that it is of the intellect rather than of the heart. There is a lack of faith. And so in the last scene in which Thomas appears, the one of the text, there is a lack of faith in all things which...
...uncomfortable as it looks, however, altho' its seat has been hardened by the weight of two or three generations. And now, tired out by this everlasting theme writing, I lie down upon it, draw my afghan over me, and seek that dreamland whither I fear my reader has long since preceded...
...easier than his life had been; for the soles of his shoes are worn quite through, and the bottoms of the feet, turned toward the window, are raw and bloody and caked with the dust of a long and fearful tramp. What was his name? Whence came he, and whither was he going? What strong, strong impulse drove him to such a journey? Whom was he seeking, or from whom did he flee? No scrap of paper tells. We can only guess that the sturdy frame bore a great weight, and that those bleeding feet were dragged over many...
...over which Ignorance and Vice brood like an eternal nightmare. Stunted and distorted human beings grovel in congenial ignominy; children are born in this pestilential atmosphere, are born and grow up, are asphyxiated, and die; and the filthy wheel of the city's life turns round and round. And whither does the human offal from these noisome streets on the water-front go? What becomes of the vilest of their vile and the most abandoned of their lost ones, when they throw off the burden of their loathsome lives? They go into the water, as a matter of course...
...shape of wild blasphemies around sundry games of marbles in a corner of the yard, but it is not until the spring fairly opens that he is here in force. Then he seems to come all at once with a whoop and a yell. Whence he comes, and whither he goes, no man can tell. Several ingenious theories have been propounded but none of them adequately answer the question. It has been claimed that he is a species of bird that flies away South for the winter and comes back with his race when it becomes warmer. This theory...