A Little Journey in the World
A Little Journey in the World
Free DownloadThis story is an attempt to trace the demoralization in a woman's soul of certain well-known influences in our existing social life. In no other way could certain phases of our society be made to appear so distinctly as when reflected in the once pure mirror of a woman's soul.
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have avoided a good deal of confusion. The meeting-house, you remember, had a committee for seating people according to their quality. They were very shrewd, but it had not occurred to them to give the best pews to the sitters able to pay the most money for them. They escaped the perplexity of reconciling the mercantile and the religious ideas."
"At any rate," said Mrs. Fletcher, "they got all sorts of people inside the same meeting-house."
"Yes, and made them feel they were all sorts; but in those, days they were not much disturbed by that feeling."
"Do you mean to say," asked Mr. Lyon, "that in this country you have churches for the rich and other churches for the poor?"
"Not at all. We have in the cities rich churches and poor churches, with prices of pews according to the means of each sort, and the rich are always glad to have the poor come, and if they do not give them the best seats, they equalize it by taking up a collection for them."
"Mr. Lyon," Mrs. Morgan interr
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