Excerpt from Achsah: A New England Life-Study<br><br>Believe, as she did. Owen Rood was a Christian, who called himself a rationalist. Ann Vaxly was a bigot, who called herself a Christian. There are plenty like Miss Vaxly, who believe that when they have walked through the waters of baptism, and gone through the formulas of church membership, they have gained the right to bind themselves up in their assumed goodness, and judge mercilessly of all who happen to hold different tenets of belief. Such self-deception may be comforting to the soul's conceit and pride, but it is nevertheless a disagreeable trait. It is a phase of Phariseeism which happily is seldom put in practice as it was by Ann Vaxly; for she carried the principle into the affairs of every-day life; and asserted her quasi-godliness in every look and word, to the intense disgust, many times, of those who had the misfortune to be outside of the particular fold of which she was a member.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.