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diff --git a/old/haw2810.txt b/old/haw2810.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bd03912 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/haw2810.txt @@ -0,0 +1,605 @@ +Project Gutenberg EBook Sunday at Home, by Nathaniel Hawthorne +From "Twice Told Tales" +#28 in our series by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the +copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing +this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook. + +This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project +Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the +header without written permission. + +Please read the "legal small print," and other information about the +eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is +important information about your specific rights and restrictions in +how the file may be used. 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First, the weathercock begins to flash; then, a fainter +lustre gives the spire an airy aspect; next it encroaches on the tower, +and causes the index of the dial to glisten like gold, as it points to +the gilded figure of the hour. Now, the loftiest window gleams, and now +the lower. The carved framework of the portal is marked strongly out. +At length, the morning glory, in its descent from heaven, comes down the +stone steps, one by one; and there stands the steeple, glowing with fresh +radiance, while the shades of twilight still hide themselves among the +nooks of the adjacent buildings. Methinks, though the same sun brightens +it every fair morning, yet the steeple has a peculiar robe of brightness +for the Sabbath. + +By dwelling near a church, a person soon contracts an attachment for the +edifice. We naturally personify it, and conceive its massive walls and +its dim emptiness to be instinct with a calm, and meditative, and +somewhat melancholy spirit. But the steeple stands foremost, in our +thoughts, as well as locally. It impresses us as a giant, with a mind +comprehensive and discriminating enough to care for the great and small +concerns of all the town. Hourly, while it speaks a moral to the few +that think, it reminds thousands of busy individuals of their separate +and most secret affairs. It is the steeple, too, that flings abroad the +hurried and irregular accents of general alarm; neither have gladness and +festivity found a better utterance, than by its tongue; and when the dead +are slowly passing to their home, the steeple has a melancholy voice to +bid them welcome. Yet, in spite of this connection with human interests, +what a moral loneliness, on week-days, broods round about its stately +height! It has no kindred with the houses above which it towers; it +looks down into the narrow thoroughfare, the lonelier, because the crowd +are elbowing their passage at its base. A glance at the body of the +church deepens this impression. Within, by the light of distant windows, +amid refracted shadows, we discern the vacant pews and empty galleries, +the silent organ, the voiceless pulpit, and the clock, which tells to +solitude how time is passing. Time,--where man lives not,--what is it +but eternity? And in the church, we might suppose, are garnered up, +throughout the week, all thoughts and feelings that have reference to +eternity, until the holy day comes round again, to let them forth. Might +not, then, its more appropriate site be in the outskirts of the town, +with space for old trees to wave around it, and throw their solemn +shadows over a quiet green? We will say more of this, hereafter. + +But, on the Sabbath, I watch the earliest sunshine, and fancy that a +holier brightness marks the day, when there shall be no buzz of voices on +the exchange, nor traffic in the shops, nor crowd, nor business, anywhere +but at church. Many have fancied so. For my own part, whether I see it +scattered down among tangled woods, or beaming broad across the fields, +or hemmed in between brick buildings, or tracing out the figure of the +casement on my chamber-floor, still I recognize the Sabbath sunshine. +And ever let me recognize it! Some illusions, and this among them, are +the shadows of great truths. Doubts may flit around me, or seem to close +their evil wings, and settle down; but so long as I imagine that the +earth is hallowed, and the light of heaven retains its sanctity, on the +Sabbath,--while that blessed sunshine lives within me,--never can my +soul have lost the instinct of its faith. If it have gone astray, it +will return again. + +I love to spend such pleasant Sabbaths, from morning till night, behind +the curtain of my open window. Are they spent amiss? Every spot, so +near the church as to be visited by the circling shadow of the steeple, +should be deemed consecrated ground, to-day. With stronger truth be it +said, that a devout heart may consecrate a den of thieves, as an evil one +may convert a temple to the same. My heart, perhaps, has not such holy, +nor, I would fain trust, such impious potency. It must suffice, that, +though my form be absent, my inner man goes constantly to church, while +many, whose bodily presence fills the accustomed seats, have left their +souls at home. But I am there, even before my friend, the sexton. At +length, he comes,--a man of kindly, but sombre aspect, in dark gray +clothes, and hair of the same mixture,--he comes and applies his key to +the wide portal. Now my thoughts may go in among the dusty pews, or +ascend the pulpit without sacrilege, but soon come forth again to enjoy +the music of the bell. How glad, yet solemn too! All the steeples in +town are talking together, aloft in the sunny air, and rejoicing among +themselves, while their spires point heavenward. Meantime, here are the +children assembling to the Sabbath school, which is kept somewhere within +the church. Often, while looking at the arched portal, I have been +gladdened by the sight of a score of these little girls and boys, in +pink, blue, yellow, and crimson frocks, bursting suddenly forth into the +sunshine, like a swarm of gay butterflies that had been shut up in the +solemn gloom. Or I might compare them to cherubs, haunting that holy +place. + +About a quarter of an hour before the second ringing of the bell, +individuals of the congregation begin to appear. The earliest is +invariably an old woman in black, whose bent frame and rounded shoulders +are evidently laden with some heavy affliction, which she is eager to +rest upon the altar. Would that the Sabbath came twice as often, for the +sake of that sorrowful old soul! There is an elderly man, also, who +arrives in good season, and leans against the corner of the tower, just +within the line of its shadow, looking downward with a darksome brow. I +sometimes fancy that the old woman is the happier of the two. After +these, others drop in singly, and by twos and threes, either disappearing +through the doorway or taking their stand in its vicinity. At last, and +always with an unexpected sensation, the bell turns in the steeple +overhead, and throws out an irregular clangor, jarring the tower to its +foundation. As if there were magic in the sound, the sidewalks of the +street, both up and down along, are immediately thronged with two long +lines of people, all converging hitherward, and streaming into the +church. Perhaps the far-off roar of a coach draws nearer,--a deeper +thunder by its contrast with the surrounding stillness,--until it sets +down the wealthy worshippers at the portal, among their humblest +brethren. Beyond that entrance, in theory at least, there are no +distinctions of earthly rank; nor indeed, by the goodly apparel which +is flaunting in the sun, would there seem to be such, on the hither side. +Those pretty girls! Why will they disturb my pious meditations! Of all +days in the week, they should strive to look least fascinating on the +Sabbath, instead of heightening their mortal loveliness, as if to rival +the blessed angels, and keep our thoughts from heaven. Were I the +minister himself, I must needs look. One girl is white muslin from the +waist upwards, and black silk downwards to her slippers; a second blushes +from topknot to shoe-tie, one universal scarlet; another shines of a +pervading yellow, as if she had made a garment of the sunshine. The +greater part, however, have adopted a milder cheerfulness of hue. Their +veils, especially when the wind raises them, give a lightness to the +general effect, and make them appear like airy phantoms, as they flit up +the steps, and vanish into the sombre doorway. Nearly all--though it is +very strange that I should know it--wear white stockings, white as snow, +and neat slippers, laced crosswise with black ribbon, pretty high above +the ankles. A white stocking is infinitely more effective than a black +one. + +Here comes the clergyman, slow and solemn, in severe simplicity, +needing no black silk gown to denote his office. His aspect claims +my reverence, but cannot win my love. Were I to picture Saint Peter, +keeping fast the gate of heaven, and frowning, more stern than pitiful, +on the wretched applicants, that face should be my study. By middle age, +or sooner, the creed has generally wrought upon the heart, or been +a-tempered by it. As the minister passes into the church, the bell holds +its iron tongue, and all the low murmur of the congregation dies away. +The gray sexton looks up and down the street, and then at my +window-curtain, where, through the small peephole, I half fancy that he +has caught my eye. Now, every loiterer has gone in, and the street +lies asleep in the quiet sun, while a feeling of loneliness comes over +me, and brings also an uneasy sense of neglected privileges and duties. +O, I ought to have gone to church! The hustle of the rising +congregation reaches my ears. They are standing up to pray. Could I +bring my heart into unison with those who are praying in yonder church, +and lift it heavenward, with a fervor of supplication, but no distinct +request, would not that be the safest kind of prayer? "Lord, look down +upon me in mercy!" With that sentiment gushing from my soul, might I +not leave all the rest to Him? + +Hark! the hymn. This, at least, is a portion of the service which I +can enjoy better than if I sat within the walls, where the full choir +and the massive melody of the organ, would fall with a weight upon me. +At this distance, it thrills through my frame, and plays upon my +heartstrings, with a pleasure both of the sense and spirit. Heaven be +praised, I know nothing of music, as a science; and the most elaborate +harmonies, if they please me, please as simply as a nurse's lullaby. +The strain has ceased, but prolongs itself in my mind, with fanciful +echoes, till I start from my revery, and find that the sermon has +commenced. It is my misfortune seldom to fructify, in a regular way, by +any but printed sermons. The first strong idea, which the preacher +utters, gives birth to a train of thought, and leads me onward, step by +step, quite out of hearing of the good man's voice, unless he be indeed +a son of thunder. At my open window, catching now and then a sentence +of the "parson's saw," I am as well situated as at the foot of the +pulpit stairs. The broken and scattered fragments of this one discourse +will be the texts of many sermons, preached by those colleague +pastors,--colleagues, but often disputants,--my Mind and Heart. The +former pretends to be a scholar, and perplexes me with doctrinal +points; the latter takes me on the score of feeling; and both, like +several other preachers, spend their strength to very little purpose. +I, their sole auditor, cannot always understand them. + +Suppose that a few hours have passed, and behold me still behind my +curtain, just before the close of the afternoon service. The hour-hand +on the dial has passed beyond four o'clock. The declining sun is hidden +behind the steeple, and throws its shadow straight across the street, so +that my chamber is darkened, as with a cloud. Around the church-door all +is solitude, and an impenetrable obscurity beyond the threshold. A +commotion is heard. The seats are slammed down, and the pew-doors thrown +back,--a multitude of feet are trampling along the unseen aisles,--and +the congregation bursts suddenly through the portal. Foremost, scampers +a rabble of boys, behind whom moves a dense and dark phalanx of grown +men, and lastly, a crowd of females, with young children, and a few +scattered husbands. This instantaneous outbreak of life into loneliness +is one of the pleasantest scenes of the day. Some of the good people are +rubbing their eyes, thereby intimating that they have been wrapped, as it +were, in a sort of holy trance, by the fervor of their devotion. There +is a young man, a third-rate coxcomb, whose first care is always to +flourish a white handkerchief, and brush the seat of a tight pair of +black silk pantaloons, which shine as if varnished. They must have been +made of the stuff called "everlasting," or perhaps of the same piece as +Christian's garments in the Pilgrim's Progress, for he put them on two +summers ago, and has not yet worn the gloss off. I have taken a great +liking to those black silk pantaloons. But, now, with nods and greetings +among friends, each matron takes her husband's arm, and paces gravely +homeward, while the girls also flutter away, after arranging sunset walks +with their favored bachelors. The Sabbath eve is the eve of love. At +length, the whole congregation is dispersed. No; here, with faces as +glossy as black satin, come two sable ladies and a sable gentleman, and +close in their rear the minister, who softens his severe visage, and +bestows a kind word on each. Poor souls! To them the most captivating +picture of bliss in heaven is--"There we shall be white!" + +All is solitude again. But, hark!--a broken warbling of voices, and now, +attuning its grandeur to their sweetness, a stately peal of the organ. +Who are the choristers? Let me dream that the angels, who came down from +heaven, this blessed morn, to blend themselves with the worship of the +truly good, are playing and singing their farewell to the earth. On the +wings of that rich melody they were borne upward. + +This, gentle reader, is merely a flight of poetry. A few of the singing +men and singing women had lingered behind their fellows, and raised their +voices fitfully, and blew a careless note upon the organ. Yet, it lifted +my soul higher than all their former strains. They are gone, the sons and +daughters of music,--and the gray sexton is just closing the portal. For +six days more, there will be no face of man in the pews, and aisles, and +galleries, nor a voice in the pulpit, nor music in the choir. Was it +worth while to rear this massive edifice, to be a desert in the heart of +the town, and populous only for a few hours of each seventh day? O, but +the church is a symbol of religion! May its site, which was consecrated +on the day when the first tree was felled, be kept holy forever, a spot +of solitude and peace, amid the trouble and vanity of our week-day world! +There is a moral, and a religion too, even in the silent walls. And may +the steeple still point heavenward, and be decked with the hallowed +sunshine of the Sabbath morn! + + + + + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK, SUNDAY AT HOME, HAWTHORNE *** + +******* This file should be named haw2810.txt or haw2810.zip ******** + +Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, haw2811.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, haw2810a.txt + +This eBook was produced by David Widger [widger@cecomet.net] + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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