The fountain : with jets of new meanings . the faith becomes extravagant THE END OF LIFE TO THOSEWHO SEE NOT. and superstitious, and the be-liever is easily influenced by omens, signs, spectres, 236 JETS OF NEW wraiths, forerunners, and whimsical prognosticationsof future events. A sailor, who cared nothing for storms and dangers, could not be induced togo out one fine morningwith some fishermen,because the night beforehe encountered a batbehind a broom in hiscabin on the beach. Hewas a good Methodist^believed in a personalGod, and in a kind ofProvidence which sendsto a believer dis
The fountain : with jets of new meanings . the faith becomes extravagant THE END OF LIFE TO THOSEWHO SEE NOT. and superstitious, and the be-liever is easily influenced by omens, signs, spectres, 236 JETS OF NEW wraiths, forerunners, and whimsical prognosticationsof future events. A sailor, who cared nothing for storms and dangers, could not be induced togo out one fine morningwith some fishermen,because the night beforehe encountered a batbehind a broom in hiscabin on the beach. Hewas a good Methodist^believed in a personalGod, and in a kind ofProvidence which sendsto a believer distinctsigns of impending disaster. Heavens ante-chamber would seem, according to some providence-believers, tobe a place of evil. I knowa distinguished preacher andorator who confessed that tosee the moon for the firsttime after her change overthe left shoulder, is certainimmediately to depress hisfeelings; and his mind isfilled with vague apprehensions, whenever he thinks A SAILOR S UNLUCKY OMEN.
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