mwic @mwic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024George Eliot said this in Adam Bede. Replace references to "Methodism" with "Christian" for a nice foothold into 21st-century American social morality. @notreallyjcm.bsky.social @thephatic.bsky.social 120
mwic @mwic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024"The picture we are apt to make of Methodism in our imagination is not an amphitheatre of green hills, or the deep shade of broad-leaved sycamores, where a crowd of rough men and weary-hearted women drank in a faith which was a rudimentary culture, 100
mwic @mwic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024which linked their thoughts with the past, lifted their imagination above the sordid details of their own narrow lives, and suffused their souls with the sense of a pitying, loving, infinite Presence, sweet as summer to the houseless needy. 100
