Eagle; in the New Testament it is a Dove.
And there are, standing over the Christian Free Run 2 Mens world, the Churches of the
Dove and the Churches of the Eagle. There are, moreover, the Churches
which do not belong to the Holy Spirit at all, but which are built to pure
fancy and logic; such as the Wren Churches in London.
The Churches of the Dove are shy and hidden: they nestle among
trees, and their bells sound in the mellowness of Sunday; or they are
gathered into a silence of their own in the very midst of the town, so that
one passes them by without observing them; they are as if invisible, offering
no resistance to the storming of the traffic.
But the Churches of the Eagle stand high, with their heads to the skies,
as if they challenged the world below. They are the Churches of the Spirit
of David, and their bells ring passionately, imperiously, falling on the
subservient world below.
The Church of San Francesco was a Church of the Dove. I passed it
several times in the dark, silent little square, without knowing it was a
church. Its pink walls were blind, windowless, unnoticeable, it gave no
sign, unless one caught sight of the tan c Free Run 2 Womens urtain hanging in the door, and
the slit of darkness beneath. Yet it was the chief church of the village.
But the Church of San Tommaso perched over the village. Coming
down the cobbled, submerged street, many a time I looked up between
the houses and saw the thin old church standing above in the light, as if
it perched on the house-roofs. Its thin grey neck was held up stiffly, beyond
was a vision of dark foliage, and the high hillside.
I saw it often, and yet for a long time it never occurred to me that it actually
existed. It was like a vision, a thing one does not expect to come
close to. It was there standing away upon the house-tops, against a glamour
of foliaged hillside. I was submerged in
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