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Still he made his Indians at Nonantum hedge and ditch, plant trees, sow cornfields, and saw planks; and some good man in England, whose name he never knew, sent him in 1648 ten pounds for schools among the natives, half of which he gave to a mistress at Cambridge, and half to a master at Dorchester, under whom the Indian children made good progress, and he catechized them himself most diligently by way of teaching both them and the parents who looked on.
"'Deed, sir," said Joseph, "we're sae used to oor wives 'at we're ower ready to forget hoo ill we cud du wantin' them." Mrs Mair and two other wives came the next night. A few hung back from modesty and dread of being catechized; but ere long about half a dozen went when they could. I need hardly say that Malcolm, as soon as he learned what was going on, made one of the company.
Bolzius called all the children before him, and catechized them, and exhorted them to give God thanks for his good providence towards them. Then prayed with them, and made them pray after him. Then sung a psalm. Afterwards, says Whitefield "the little lambs came and shook me by the hand, one by one, and so we parted." From this moment Whitefield made his purpose his fate.
But few in the South realized the importance of supplying the North with correct information about actual conditions. The letters and reports, they thought, humiliated them; inquiry was felt to be prying and gloating. "Correspondents have added a new pang to surrender," it was said. The South was proud and refused to be catechized.
In the cabin he had left Jeffery Neilson catechized his daughter, trying to learn all he could concerning Ben. It was true that he carried the dead Hiram's rifle, and that the latter's pet wolf followed at his heels, but it was wholly probable that the old man, Hiram's brother, with whom he had conversed at the river, had designated him to get them.
"But, he did not mean a literal fire, did he, when He spoke of everlasting punishment?" Mrs. Dyke was the catechized instead of the catechizer, and it was an unaccustomed role, but she bore it like a soldier. "Of course he did; several places in Matthew he described the lot of the wicked, and referred to the danger of hell-fire.
On the street, in the stores, at the churches wherever men met this was the one unfailing theme of conversation. None but those who have seen a Southern community excited over one subject or one man can imagine how much can be said about a little matter. The newspapers of that and the adjoining counties were full of it. Colored men were catechized in regard to it.
The Sixth Form authorities, refusing to be catechized, would answer no questions; while the other side took good care to spread abroad a very one-sided account of the affair. The Wraxby match was fresh in everybody's mind. "Awfully hard lines I call it," said the cricketers. "He won that game for us; why didn't they let him go on a few days more till the end of the term?"
Very interesting experiences, too; but well, I value my soul too much, Mr. Baxter." Mr. Morton put a large piece of potato into his mouth with a detached air. It was really rather trying, thought Laurie, to be catechized in this way; so he determined to show superiority. "And you think it all superstition and nonsense?" he asked. "Indeed, no," said the old man shortly.
'My private character has nothing whatever to do with my politics, he said, and had barely said it when he remembered having spoken somewhat differently, upon the abstract consideration of the case, to Mr. Tomlinson. 'You're quite welcome to examine my character for yourself, only I don't consent to be catechized. Understand that. 'You quite understand that, Mr.
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