Eric Hermannson's Soul
Author:
Willa CatherPublisher:
HarperCollins PublishersPublication Date:
04-28-2009ISBN:
9780061917196Available as:
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It was a great night at the Lone Star schoolhouse-a night when the Spirit was present with power and when God was very near to man. So it seemed to Asa Skinner, servant of God and Free Gospeller. The schoolhouse was crowded with the saved and sanctified, robust men and women, trembling and quailing before the power of some mysterious psychic force. Here and there among this cowering, sweating multitude crouched some poor wretch who had felt the pangs of an awakened conscience, but had not yet experienced that complete divestment of reason, that frenzy born of a convulsion of the mind, which, in the parlance of the Free Gospellers, is termed "the Light."
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