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Spiritual Adventures
Arthur Symons
Spiritual Adventures
Arthur Symons
Book Excerpt: ...bout me, and my voracious appetite for life was partly a kind of haste to eat and drink my fill at a feast from which I might at any time be called away. And then I was still more uneasy about hell. My parents were deeply religious; we all went to church, a Nonconformist church, twice on Sunday; I was not allowed to read any but pious books or play anything but hymns or oratorios on Sunday; I was taught that this life, which seemed so real and so permanent to me, was but an episode in existence, a little finite part of eternity. We had grace before and after meals; we had family prayers night and morning; we seemed to live in continual communication with the other world. And yet, for the most part, the other world meant nothing to me. I believed, but could not interest myself in the matter. I read the Bible with keen admiration, especially Ecclesiastes; the Old Testament seemed to me wholly delightful, but I cared less for the New Testament; there was so much doctrine in it, it was so explicit about du..
Media | Książki Paperback Book (Książka z miękką okładką i klejonym grzbietem) |
Wydane | 29 marca 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9798709348202 |
Wydawcy | Independently Published |
Strony | 130 |
Wymiary | 127 × 203 × 7 mm · 136 g |
Język | English |
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