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內容簡介 Book Excerpt: ch usage, as stated prayer when the spirit did not move, and especially the administration of the Communion, he honestly laid histroubles before his people, and proposed to them some modification ofthis rite. While they considered his proposition, Emerson went into theWhite Mountains to weigh his conflicting duties to his church andconscience. He came down, bravely to meet the refusal of the church tochange the rite, and in a sermon preached in September, 1832, explainedhis objections to it, and, because he could not honestly administer it, resigned.He parted from his people in all kindness, but the wrench was felt. Hiswife had recently died, he was ill himself, his life seemed to othersbroken up. But meantime voices from far away had reached him. He sailedfor Europe, landed in Italy, saw cities, and art, and men, but would notstay long. Of the dead, Michael Angelo appealed chiefly to him there;Landor among the living. He soon passed northward, making little stay inParis, but sought out CarlRead Mo