Doctor Johns: Being a Narrative of Certain Events in the Life of An Orthodox Minister of Connecticut
The book Doctor Johns: Being a Narrative of Certain Events in the Life of An Orthodox Minister of Connecticut was written by author Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908 Here you can read free online of Doctor Johns: Being a Narrative of Certain Events in the Life of An Orthodox Minister of Connecticut book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Doctor Johns: Being a Narrative of Certain Events in the Life of An Orthodox Minister of Connecticut a good or bad book?
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All the time, too, was sounding in his ear (as if he had yielded full assent) the mellow and grateful cadence of the hymn, — " Eeturn, O wanderer ! now return I " 236 DOCTOR JOHNS. Reuben makes a Proselyte. REUBEN wrote to the Doctor, under the influence of this new glow of feeling, in a way that at once amazed and delighted the good old gentleman. And yet there were ill-defined, but very decided, terrors and doubts in his delight. Dr. Johns, by nature as well as by education, was disposed to l...ook distrustfully upon a sudden conviction of duty which had its spring in any extraordinary exaltation of feeling, rather than in that full intellectual seizure of the Word, which it seemed to him could come only after a determined wrestling with those dogmas that to his mind were the aptest and compactest expression of the truth toward which we must agonize. The day of Pentecost showed a great miracle, indeed ; but was not the day of miracles past ? The Doctor, however, did not allow his entertainment of a secret fear to color in any way his letters of earnest gratulation to his son.
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