The Power of Words and Images

His fame, though still on its upward slope, already overshadowed the sobering reputations of his fellow clergymen. There are scholars among them who had spent more years in acquiring abstruse law connected with a divine profession than Mr Dimmsdale had lived. They fancied him the mouthpiece of heaven's messages of wisdom and rebuke and love. In their eyes the very ground on which he trod was sanctified. The virgins of his church grew pale around him - victims of a passion so imbued with religious sentiment that they imagined it to be all religion. It sent its own throb of pain through a thousand other hearts in gushes of sad, persuasive eloquence. Often it

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