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This was brief and beautiful indeed till something happened that gave it, for Berridge, on the spot, a prodigious extension an extension really as prodigious, after a little, as if he had suddenly seen the silver clouds multiply and then the whole of Olympus presently open.
Romaine would have been quite unfitted for the work which Grimshaw and Berridge, in spite or, shall we say, in consequence? of their boisterous bonhomie and occasionally ill-timed jocularity were able to do. The farmers and working men of Haworth or Everton would assuredly have gone to sleep under his preaching, or stayed away from church altogether.
The object was incongruous by reason of its being, to a second and less preoccupied glance, a book; and what had befallen Berridge within twenty minutes was that they the Princess and he, that is had got such millions of miles, or at least such thousands of years, away from those platitudes.
Both were oddities; but the oddities of Berridge were more outrageous than those of Grimshaw. Both were stirring preachers; but the effects of Berridge's preaching were more startling if not more satisfactory than those which attended Grimshaw. Both were Calvinists; but Berridge's Calvinism was of the more marked type of the two.
Berridge, as his hand now broke away, felt he had cut his cable; with which, after he had stepped out, he raised again the glass he had lowered and closed, its own being already down, the door that had released him.
She did not see me standing at the open door, and I moved quietly away. As I walked over the Common I avoided the wood deliberately I wondered what was the human limit of endurance. I wondered whether Ellen Mary had not reached that limit. Mrs. Berridge had not gone to bed, and there were some visitors in the kitchen. I heard them talking. Mrs. Berridge came out when I opened the front door.
'Fifth volume of Matthew Henry's Commentary, said he, reading their titles aloud. 'Housewife's complete Manual; Berridge on Prayer; L'Inferno Dante! in great surprise. 'Why, who reads this? 'I told you Phillis read it. Don't you remember? She knows Latin and Greek, too. 'To be sure! I remember! But somehow I never put two and two together.
This tract was carefully marked in pencil, and had several questions written in the margin. I found out that it came from a person to whom I had given it, and who was anxious to know its meaning. I read it with much interest, for I saw that the first portion of the history of Berridge corresponded with mine; but as I went on reading, I wondered what he could mean by "Justification."
Whitefield, the prince of orators, stalked through the land proclaiming salvation for sinners, and not content with conquests won in the sea-girt isles, he needs must cross the ocean to tell the story of the ages to wondering thousands. John Berridge, the witty yet zealous vicar of Everton, itinerated through the country and in one year saw not less that four thousand awakened.
It was to him, John Berridge, she thus publicly offered it; and it was his over-topping confrere of shortly before who was the worshipper most disconcerted.
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