The Soul's distinct connection 1
With immortality
Is best disclosed by Danger
Or quick Calamity－
As Lightning on a Landscape 5
Exhibits Sheets of Place－
Not yet suspected－but for Flash－
And Click－and Suddenness.
With immortality
Is best disclosed by Danger
Or quick Calamity－
As Lightning on a Landscape 5
Exhibits Sheets of Place－
Not yet suspected－but for Flash－
And Click－and Suddenness.
(F.901/J.974)
[1] connection:: a word used often by Methodists for those associated with them.
[2] With immortality:: with heaven, God.
[3] by Danger:: Methodist preaches were stirring, enthusiastic.
[4] Calamity:: those sermons were described by some as mad.
[5] Landscape:: they did preaches in the open air often.
[5, 6] Lightning, Exhibits:: to see suddenly in mind.
[7] suspected:: some call the Methodism a superstition.
[7, 8] Flash, Click:: the feeling of sudden revival, or a new birth for salvation.
George Bell, a fanatic in the old Methodist connection, began to stultify and terrify the people by predicting the near approach of the end of the world, and the day of judgment. ─ Rise and Progress of the New Jerusalem Church, in England, America (1861)