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There was naught to be heard, neither night nor day, but preaching, praying, argumentation, an' catechising in a' the famous town o' Auchtermuchty. The young men wooed their sweethearts out o' the Song o' Solomon, an' the girls returned answers in strings o' verses out o' the Psalms.
"Now, there's another," as a coin falls "and from a child, too! God bless thee now, my son. May my lord Ben Aïsa, my lord Abd es-Slám, and my lord Abd el Káder, protect and keep thee!" Then, as more coppers fall, similar blessings are invoked upon the donors, interspersed with catechising of the musicians with a view to making known the advantages to be reaped by giving something.
Drury was not slow in catechising John, telling him in a severe tone that unless he returned to his old love and gave up all acquaintance with the new, he would withdraw his friendship from him, as a creature unworthy of it.
What though the church-worship be pure, yet if the worshippers be impure, God will not accept of the worship? And if families be not reformed, how will your worshippers be pure? We swear to endeavour "to bring the churches of God in the three kingdoms to the nearest uniformity in religion confession of faith, form of church government, directory for worship, and catechising."
We are catechising and converting our proselytes, and there should be no row. As we get older we must digest more quietly still, our appetite is less, our gastric juices are no longer so eloquent, they have lost that cogent fluency which carried away all that came in contact with it. They have become sluggish and unconciliatory.
After this I shall always go armed. "Sincerely yours, The shower had put him in such lively humor that his answer was born in a flash from memory of her own catechising of him on Galeria. "First, I must ask if you know how to shoot," he scribbled beneath her signature. The Indian seemed hardly out of the doorway before he was back with a reply: "I do, or I would not go armed," it said.
"I do what I can to remedy this misfortune by public catechising; but having two or three churches to serve, I can not give so much time as I wish to private instruction; and having a large family of my own, and no assistance from others, I have never been able to establish a school." "There is an excellent institution in London," said Mr.
The good old plan of catechising not only children but domestic servants and apprentices on Sunday afternoons had fallen into disuse. In the early part of the century plans had been set on foot for the establishment of parochial libraries, but these had fallen through.
On catechising evenings the schoolmaster was a great man, preaching and teaching for three hours at a stretch much in the style of an English ranter.
And while I'm catechising ye, may I ask for what do ye bring a slate out pig-minding and sky-making?" "I draws out the trees on it first," said Jan, "and then I does them in leaves. If you'll come round," he added, shyly, "you'll see it. But don't tread on un, please, sir."
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