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CHAPTER IV A VISIT
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The Special Teachers' Meeting to which Willie Price had referred was one of the final preliminaries to a Revival1—that is, a revival of godliness and Christian2 grace—about to be undertaken by the Wesleyan Methodist Society in Bursley. Its object was to arrange for a personal visitation of the parents of Sunday-school scholars in their homes. Hitherto Anna had felt but little interest in the Revival: it had several times been brought indirectly3 before her notice, but she had regarded it as a phenomenon which recurred4 at intervals5 in the cycle of religious activity, and as not in any way affecting herself. The gradual centring of public interest, however—that mysterious movement which, defying analysis, gathers force as it proceeds, and ends by coercing6 the most indifferent—had already modified her attitude towards this forthcoming event. It got about that the preacher who had been engaged, a specialist in revivals7, was a man of miraculous8 powers: the number of souls which he had snatched from eternal torment9 was precisely10 stated, and it amounted to tens of thousands. He played the cornet to the glory of God, and his cornet was of silver: his more distant past had been ineffably11 wicked, and the faint rumour12 of that dead wickedness clung to his name like a
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描绘,描画( depict的现在分词 ); 描述 | |
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kindliness
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默想( meditation的名词复数 ); 默念; 沉思; 冥想 | |
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devout
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organisation
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altruism
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immortal
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pricked
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刺,扎,戳( prick的过去式和过去分词 ); 刺伤; 刺痛; 使剧痛 | |
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professing
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声称( profess的现在分词 ); 宣称; 公开表明; 信奉 | |
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profess
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formerly
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inquiry
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