![]() Bradshaw's.īut soon remembrance and anticipation came. ![]() Sally was full of the event which her presence was to sanction, and, as it were, to redeem from the character of being utterly schismatic she spoke about it with an air of patronage to three or four, and among them to some of the servants at Mr. It produced a consequence, however, which they did not anticipate. But they were glad she wished to go they liked the feeling that all were of one household, and that the interests of one were the interests of all. and Miss Benson, Ruth carrying her babe, and Sally, who felt herself, as a ChurchofEngland woman, to be condescending and kind in requesting leave to attend a baptism among "them Dissenters" but unless she had asked permission, she would not have been desired to attend, so careful was the habit of her master and mistress that she should be allowed that freedom which they claimed for themselves. The whole procession was to have consisted of Mr. It was not far to carry the little one, for, as I said, the chapel almost adjoined the minister's house. One night Sally found out she was not asleep.Ī pang of affright shot through Ruth's heart at these words had she already sinned and made her child into an idol, and was there punishment already in store for her through him? But then the internal voice whispered that God was "Our Father," and that He knew our frame, and knew how natural was the first outburst of a mother's love so, although she treasured up the warning, she ceased to affright herself for what had already gushed forth. I'm doubting whether to this day he knows whether what he was eating was fish, flesh, or fowl. I'll tell you of my own sweethearts and welcome, or I'll tell you of the dinner, which was the grandest thing I ever did in my life, but I thought a Lunnoner should never think country folks knew nothing and, my word, I puzzled him with his dinner. However, I've no business to be talking of Miss Benson's concerns. She kept up afore Master Thurstan, but I seed her fretting, though I never let on that I did, for I thought she'd soonest get over it and be thankful at after she'd the strength to do right. She said, 'No, she would never leave Master Thurstan, as could never marry ' but she pined a deal at after he went away. ![]() ![]() ![]() Oh, he was a grand gentleman from Lunnon, as had seen Miss Faith, and been struck by her pretty looks when she was out on a visit, and came here to ask her to marry him. Benson had explained his own views of what a christening ought to be considered, and, by calling out Ruth's latent feelings into pious earnestness, brought her into a right frame of mind, he felt that he had done what he could to make the ceremony more than a mere form, and to invest it, quiet, humble, and obscure as it must necessarily be in outward shapemournful and anxious as many of its antecedents had rendered itwith the severe grandeur of an act done in faith and truth. Benson while Miss Benson kept up a kind of running commentary, always simple and often quaint, but with that intuition into the very heart of all things truly religious which is often the gift of those who seem, at first sight, to be only affectionate and sensible. There had been many conversations in the little sittingroom between the brother and sister and their protegee, which had consisted of questions betraying a thoughtful wondering kind of ignorance on the part of Ruth, and answers more suggestive than explanatory from Mr. Benson belonged, it is not considered necessary to baptize infants as early as the ceremony can be performed and many circumstances concurred to cause the solemn thanksgiving and dedication of the child for so these Dissenters looked upon christenings to be deferred until it was probably somewhere about six months old. ![]()
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