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On the 7th they dined at the La Combes, a Catholic family, who took them to see the House of Correction, where John Yeardley interrogated the boys in the prison school, and afterwards addressed them. In the evening they were present at Pastor Majors' Bible-class. It is composed, says J.Y., of ten young men, who meet once a week at his lodging, and he instructs them in the Scriptures.
He could not attend to his sermon, though it was Friday. He entirely forgot his Bible-class at the alms-houses in the afternoon. Mrs. Gresley watched him from her bedroom window, where she was mending the children's stockings. At last she laid aside her work and went out. She might not be his mental equal.
But she had sufficient conscience left to be ashamed of this state of things, and to understand that Abbie referred to the church prayer-meeting, so she answered simply "No; Wednesday." "That is our church prayer-meeting night. I missed it last evening because I wanted to welcome you. And Tuesday is our Bible-class night." "Do you give three evenings a week to religious meetings, Abbie?"
Josh says that for his part he don't like potatoes anyhow, and will not be comforted. In the afternoon we present ourselves at Sunday-school, and as the preacher's sons are supposed to be first-class ecclesiastical scholars, are put in the Bible-class. Here we surprise everybody by the quantity of verses we know by heart, and get many red and blue tickets for our reward.
And Abbie went as usual to her mission-class, to her Bible-class, to the teacher's prayer-meeting, to the regular church prayer-meeting, every-where she had been wont to go, and she was always and every-where accompanied and sustained by her brother. As for Ester, these were days of great opportunity and spiritual growth to her.
The family were of that "strict, not strictest species of Presbyterian Dissenter," and John attended also the Bible-class and Fellowship Meeting. The family of John Murray, a ploughman or "hind" from the Duns district, and now settled at Bastleridge, the next farm to Ayton Hill, also attended Mr. Ure's church. An intimacy sprang up between the two families.
They would have Miss Flossy Shipley to be their teacher, and they would have no one else; she suited them exactly, and no one else did. "But, my dear boys," Dr. Dennis said, "Miss Shipley is new to the work of teaching; she is but a learner herself; she feels that her place is in the Bible-class, so that she may acquire the best ways of presenting lessons."
Newman Hall, minister of Surrey Chapel, London, gives the following instances of answers to prayer from his own experience: "The writer's brother, when superintendent of a Sunday School, felt a strong impulse, one Saturday evening, to call on a member of his Bible-class, whom he had never visited before, and to inquire if he was in any need. He found him very ill.
'I was dreaming I was at home, and it was Sunday, and we were at the Bible-class, and singing the hymn we always begin with, I was singing it when I woke, and it made me cry to think it wasn't true. 'Perhaps it was my singing that made you dream it, said Rosalie; 'I've been singing to my mammie. 'Oh, I should think that was it, said the girl. 'What did you sing? will you sing it to me?
"Don't you think you'd get at the model sooner, if some of you weren't pig-headed about your own, and too fond of abusing each other's?" asked Mr. Radley. "Certainly," admitted Mr. Buffle, "and that's why I wanted us to get up a Bible-class like the one we have.
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