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THE SOUL OF A BISHOP BY H. G. WELLS
CONTENTS
* CHAPTER THE FIRST - THE DREAM
* CHAPTER THE SECOND - THE WEAR AND TEAR OF EPISCOPACY
* CHAPTER THE THIRD - INSOMNIA
* CHAPTER THE FOURTH - THE SYMPATHY OF LADY SUNDERBUND
* CHAPTER THE FIFTH - THE FIRST VISION
* CHAPTER THE SIXTH - EXEGETICAL
* CHAPTER THE SEVENTH - THE SECOND VISION
* CHAPTER THE EIGHTH - THE NEW WORLD
* CHAPTER THE NINTH - THE THIRD VISION
"Man's true Environment is God" J. H. OLDHAM in "The Christian Gospel" (Tract of the N. M. R. and H.)
CHAPTER THE
FIRST - THE DREAM
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IT was a scene of bitter disputation. A hawk-nosed young man with a pointing finger was prominent. His face worked violently, his lips moved very rapidly, but what he said was inaudible.
Behind him the little rufous man with the big eyes twitched at his robe and offered suggestions.
And behind these two clustered a great multitude of heated, excited, swarthy faces....
The emperor sat on his golden throne in the midst of the gathering, commanding silence by gestures, speaking inaudibly to them in a tongue the majority did not use, and then prevailing. They ceased their interruptions, and the old man, Arius, took up the debate. For a time all those impassioned faces were intent upon him; they listened as though they sought occasion, and suddenly as if by a preconcerted arrangement they were all thrusting their fingers into their ears and knitting their brows in assumed horror; some were crying aloud and making as if to fly. Some indeed tucke