Sermons Out of Church (Classic Reprint) ~ Paperback ~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Sermons Out of Church (Classic Reprint) ~ Paperback ~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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Excerpt from Sermons Out of Church I lately saw a drawing, not unknown to archaeologists, which though it might shock some people as painfully profane, struck me with just the contrary feeling, as being a solemn and touching confirmation, from the outside, of that internal truth which we call Revelation. It was a copy of a street caricature, found, not very long ago. on a newly discovered wall - I think in Rome - where it had been hidden for eighteen hundred years. Evidently the work of some young gamin of the ancient world, and depicting man, after the most primitive style of Art, with a round o for his head, an oblong 0 for his body, two lines for legs and arms, and five-rayed fans for hands and feet. This creature stood gazing in adoration upon a similar man, only with an ass's head instead of a human one, who hung suspended upon a cross. Underneath was scrawled in rude Greek letters, "Alcxaminos worships his God." It set me thinking. "Alexaminos worships his god." Not God, mind you, but his god: the divinity of his own making, with an ass's head on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."