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When there, my mother would give the responses and amens in a loud dignified voice that was delightful to hear, and, besides, had a fine loud voice for singing, which art she had perfected in London under a fashionable teacher; and she would exercise her talent in such a way that you would hardly hear any other voice of the little congregation which chose to join in the psalm.
Very little of that unctuous spasmodic shouting, which used to characterise Wesleyanism, is heard in Lune-street Chapel. It has become unfashionable to bellow; it is not considered "the thing" to ride the high horse of vehement approval and burst into luminous showers of "Amens" and "Halleleujahs."
Christmas had come, but for one man at Milan there were no hymns, no shouts of 'glad tidings! no midnight festival, no rejoicing that 'to us a Child is born; to us a Son is given'. The Basilica was thronged with worshippers and rang with their Amens, resounding like thunder, and their echoing song the Te Deum then their newest hymn of praise.
How weak the voice of a sobbing sigh, how terribly far the starry heavens who could hear there? Yet there is One who hears! And there is One who notes the unexpressed prayer of the silent suppliant, One who hears the unuttered words. Poor girl! She did not imagine that this feeling, this exaltation, was prayer not the words, not the sermon, not addresses, not the amens.
Andrew Fairservice, whose disgust at the law of his country had fortunately not extended itself to the other learned professions of his native land, now sung forth the praises of the preacher who was to perform the duty, to which my hostess replied with many loud amens.
He knew plenty of women who could charm at a dinner or dazzle at a dance, but who displayed their weaknesses at prayer. All unwitting to herself, poor Drusilla was inviting his final or almost final judgment on her future, so far at least as he was concerned, for the simple reason that she twitched and sighed and forgot to say the Amens.
Then followed prayer from Deacon Shadwell, broken by "Amens" from the preacher, with a nautical suggestion of "Ay, ay," about them, and he began his sermon. It was, as those who knew his methods might have expected, a suggestion of the conversation they had already overheard.
The old man ceased, and again fell upon his knees, while his associate deputies rang the space with loud Amens. It was well the light was dim, and the Emperor's face in shadow; it was well the posture of the petitioners helped hide him from close study; a feeling mixed of pity, contempt, and unutterable indignation seized him, distorting his features, and shaking his whole person.
The one person present who received the discourse with almost vindictive signs of indorsement was Brother Billy Smithers, a man who had lived an exasperatingly regular life in the church for more than forty years. He sent up Amens fervid with the heat of his furious spirit at the end of each charge and condemnation.
It makes me love America much more; and if I could tell my people in the old country that all this good has come to me from the church, they could not believe it. Still, it is true. Everything I have to-day has come to me by goodness of Christian people." There were some half-embarrassed "Amens," and more than one hitherto unsuspected cold required considerable attention.
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