Word: pilgrimate
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...necessarily a subdivision of slapstick. Though one or two U.P.A. cartoons have suggested the possibility, Halas and Batchelor prove with this picture that animation can cope with serious subjects as well as with slight ones. Next H. & B. production: a feature treatment of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress...
...delicately wrought signpost to the spiritual life is a small book, apparently written some time in the mid-19th century and published in Russian under the title: Candid Narratives of a Pilgrim to His Spiritual Father. Its author is unknown, its exact date uncertain. It made its first appearance in manuscript form in the hands of one of the famed monks of Mount Athos. The abbot of St. Michael's Monastery at Kazan, Russia, discovered it, copied it, and it appeared in 1884. Though one of the classics of Russian Orthodoxy that sounds a note often heard in Tolstoy...
Thus equipped, the pilgrim sets off on his wanderings through a world of serfs and soldiers, wild weather and mud-rutted roads...
Spiritual Greed. Everyone he meets lends force to the argument that all Christians were meant to "pray without ceasing." Like a self-helper by Norman Vincent Peale, The Way of a Pilgrim is crammed with appropriate case histories -a social gamut of unhappy people whose lives have been changed by the practice of interior prayer. Unlike a modern religious bestseller, though, the book does not suggest that he who prays will become healthier, wealthier or wiser-just happier...
Modern Christians may well find some use for some of the pilgrim's practical pointers, such as the warning against letting prayer get sidetracked by "spiritual" thoughts. "If the [Devil] cannot turn us from prayer by means of vain thoughts and sinful ideas, then he . . . fills us with beautiful ideas, so that one way or another he may lure us away from prayer, which is a thing he cannot bear . . . [My teacher] taught me . . . not to admit during times of prayer even the most lofty of spiritual thoughts. And if I saw that, in the course...