The Importance of Sense in the Ministry

Mr Dimmsdale had achieved a brilliant popularity in his sacred office. He won it indeed in great part by his sorrows,. His intellectual gifts, his moral perceptions, his power of experiencing and communicating emotion were kept in a state of preternatural activity by the prick and anguish of his daily life. The victim was forever on the rack. It needed only to know the spring that controlled the engine, and the physician knew it well. Would he startle him with sudden fear, as at the waving of a magician's wand, up rose a thousand grizzly phantoms in many shapes of death or more awful shame? A token implicitly to be relied on of a deeper antipathy

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