Little Bethel

The angry God, who will not relax his frown save at the sight of blood, is conveniently forgotten in the more refined circles of ecclesiasticism, and is now left to the meditations of Little Bethel or Breton peasants.

Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles W. R. Washington Sullivan

One would scarcely imagine that Little Bethel would have had much appeal to her.

The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert Horace Wyndham

Westminster Catechism, and for the moral order of the world, and for all the despairing misery of back-street, black bombazine, Little Bethel goodness.

Prejudices : first series, 1919

And yet this movement, this Spiritual movement, is hooted at and reviled by Rome, by Canterbury and even by Little Bethel, each of them for once acting in concert, and including in their battle line such strange allies as the Scientific Agnostics and the militant Free-thinkers.

The Vital Message 1919

No man among us has ever urged more ardently, or with sounder knowledge or greater persuasiveness, that catholicity of taste and sympathy which stands in such direct opposition to the booming certainty and snarling narrowness of Little Bethel.

A Book of Prefaces 1918

Mr. Chesterton gives the impression that that is precisely how he would prefer his mushrooms -- _and Little Bethel_!

Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915

Dickens, he writes very contemptuously of 'that Little Bethel to which

Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915

And by that time he may have come to know Little Bethel.

Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915

It is perfectly true that Little Bethel, like the mushrooms, flourished in the darkness.

Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915

Hebrews was, nobody ever shuddered as they passed even his meanest and narrowest Little Bethel or his proudest war-consecrating cathedral as we shudder now when we pass a physiological laboratory.

Back to Methuselah George Bernard Shaw 1903