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Peter the Hermit A Tale of Enthusiasm By: Daniel A. (Daniel Ayres) Goodsell (1840-1909) |
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Peter the Hermit
A STORY OF ENTHUSIASM By
DANIEL A. GOODSELL A Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church CINCINNATI: JENNINGS AND GRAHAM
NEW YORK: EATON AND MAINS COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY
JENNINGS AND GRAHAM
PREFACE
Original material for a biography of Peter the Hermit either does not
exist in this country, or, if here, does not yield itself readily to
knowledge and use. The "Life of Peter the Hermit," by D'Outremant, and
another by André Thevet, on which Michaud draws heavily, seem beyond
reach, as are also the histories of the Crusades, by von Raumer and
Maunbourg. On examining a number of English and American "Histories of the
Crusades," I found them to be largely abridgments or paraphrases of
Michaud's monumental work. It is, then, from Michaud and Milman chiefly that the writer has drawn
the facts herein recorded, having often found it necessary to chasten
the too pronounced Roman sympathies of Michaud by the equally pronounced
Protestantism of Milman. To these authors I am so much indebted as to
call for the fullest acknowledgment. The Rev. Dr. J. A. Faulkner,
Professor in Drew Theological Seminary, has put me under great
obligations by permitting me to use Hagenmeyer's "Life of Peter,"
especially valuable to the early and late parts of Peter's life. BROOKLINE, June, 1906 .
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. PETER THE HERMIT, 7 II. THE MAN AND HIS MESSAGE, 25 III. THE MARCH AND THE BATTLE, 44 IV. THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM, 82
Peter the Hermit
CHAPTER I. PETER THE HERMIT. THE FOREGROUND.
The great movements called the Crusades followed the leading of
universal religious instincts. [Sidenote: The Cause of Pilgrimages ] [Sidenote: Belong to all Religions ] [Sidenote: The Impulse of To day. ] [Sidenote: Pilgrimages and Historic Memory ] Wherever a great leader has been born, has taught, has suffered, died,
or been buried, the feet of his followers have been glad to stand. At
such spots religious emotions are revived, holy influences are believed
to be absorbed, and a sense of nearness to the prophets of God acquired.
Whatever the teacher wore, used, or even looked upon, became a treasure
through its relation to him. In India pilgrimages to holy shrines,
rivers, and cities have been works of merit, even from prehistoric
times. The same is true of China as to temples, tombs, springs, and
mountain summits. Devotees of later religions, like that of Mahomet,
have their Meccas, as the Roman Church has her Loretto and her Lourdes.
The murder of Thomas á Becket was followed by the Canterbury
pilgrimages, immortalized by Chaucer. "From the lowest Fetichism up to
Christianity itself this general and unconquerable propensity has either
been sanctioned by religion or sprung up out of it."[1] Humanity leans
more readily on the Incarnate Savior than on Him who was "before the
world was." To day the devout Christian feels the impulse to walk where
the Master walked, to behold the sea which He stilled, to sit by the
well where He preached, to pray in the garden of His agony, and to stand
on the summit above which He shone. And if his faith can be assured as
to the site of Calvary, the great tragedy loses all historical dimness
and is made real, visible, and present, though its story be read through
penitent tears. The place suggests the man; the man suggests the Divine
Man; He seems nearer when we worship where an apostle said, "My Lord and
my God." [Sidenote: The East the Fountain of Religions ] [Sidenote: Influence of Magna Græcia ] The East has always been the fountain of religions to the European mind.
To the westward flowed the stream of doctrines which sprang up in the
Orient. We are beginning to see that Greece came to many of her gods
through instruction from the Asiatic continent, and that her originality
in religion lay chiefly in her refinement of nature worship and in the
beautiful marble forms in which Greek genius enshrined her divinities... Continue reading book >>
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