...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...shrine of a radiant god, And the pilgrim shall visit that blest abode T o worship, and not to weep; And as he turns his steps aside, Thus shall he b... ...ians were zeal- ous adorers of the sun and of fire, they abhorred the idol worship of the Greeks, and defiled and plundered every temple that fell in ... ...th, worse indignities were prepar- ing for him. He was in the midst of the Liturgy on the 8th of November, the Greek Michaelmas, when a boyard came in... ...ant of discipline. The poor Lowneburgers had been greatly mis- used: their Lutheran pastors had been expelled; all the supe- rior citizens had either ... ...spectable men. However, the wives had almost all remained staunch to their Lutheran confession; they had followed their pastors weeping to the gates o... ...nity to hear their preachings, or obtain baptism for their children at the Lutheran churches in the neighborhood. The person who had the upper hand in...

...ecause they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...eemed gently aloof and criti- cal. She was credulous, perhaps; a born hero-worshipper; yet she did question and examine unceasingly. Whatever she migh... ... that way—kind of quiet, so nobody would get fresh. Kind of—oh, elegant. A Lutheran Church. Here in the city there’d be lovely sermons, and church twi... ... was called into the country. It was Bea’s evening out—her evening for the Lutheran Dance. Carol was alone from three till midnight. She wearied of re... ...and silos and milking-machines and everything. Do you all know that lonely Lutheran church, with the tin- covered spire, that stands out alone on a hi... ...y worked as hard as Pa did when he cleared our first farm. IV Carol’s hero-worship dwindled to polite nodding, and the nodding dwindled to a desire to... ...or candles, and piston-rings possessing the sanctity of altar-vessels. His liturgy was composed of intoned and metrical road-com- ments: “They say the...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kans...

...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...aal Peor, which means, literally, “the Lord of the ravine,” viz., the idol worshipped at the Pass in the wil- derness. Consequently, in reading any on... ...something was wanting in the hearty sympathy and support of earnest fellow-worshippers. The College chapel nicely decorated. ‘1st Sunday after Easter:... ... martyrs, and every spirit made perfect in the faith of Christ,” as an old Liturgy says. And the Collects in the Burial Service! How full, how simple ... ...nd the Ger- mans, used with discrimination, are great helps. An ortho- dox Lutheran, one Delitzsch (of whom Liddon wrote that Dr. Pusey thinks highly ... ...d an English playground. ‘On Sunday, the early Chapel is omitted. The full Liturgy is divided into two services—I forget the laws—and a kind of sermon... ...s almost the only clear, plain writer I know among them. Dorner, the great Lutheran divine, gives you about two pages and a half of close print for a ...

...o write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few years would have made it necessary to trust to hearsay or probable conjecture. On the other, there is necessarily much more reserve; nor are the results of the actions...