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Updated: May 31, 2025
Some people are content to have nothing more to do in the service than say 'Amen' at the close of the benediction, but I think a responsive service claims the attention of careless churchgoers, and gives people something else to think of besides the style of the garments of those around them."
The next day Frank came home with them from church. He was the only one of the family at church that day, for it had rained in the morning, and they were not very regular churchgoers at the best of times. "Papa said I might go home with you, if Aunt Mary asked me," said Frank, as he joined them at the door. "Come on, then," said Jem.
But as the churchgoers filed by ones and twos into the building, each began to be aware of a solitude which was peopled only by the disagreeable presence of the other. John, ostentatiously disregardful of his adversary, planted himself at the gate, so as to be before him in his greeting.
Now, far be it from me to depreciate the works of the composers who are supposed to form the "English school." I would not sneer at the strains which have lulled to quiet slumbers so many generations of churchgoers.
"Where did I last see them?" he mused. Suddenly he recollected a little scene on the steps of Notre Dame one morning before mass. "Oh, yes," he continued, "they were begging for charity of the churchgoers at Notre Dame. I noticed that the young girl was blind professionally interested, I examined her pupils and discovered she was merely suffering from cataracts which could be readily removed.
Puritan churchgoers, passing hours upon hours every week in rapt absorption with the noblest of all poetry and prose in the pages of their chief book, the Bible, were at least as sensitive to the beauty of words and the sweep of emotions as our contemporaries upon whose book-shelves Spenser and Milton stand unread.
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise. The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. It is noticed in most calculations of churchgoers that women have remained attached to the churches in a far higher proportion than men.
And for other later churchgoers there were the shrill voices of friendly children to tell what had happened to appeal confidently to Merton, vaguely ahead in the twilight, to confirm their interesting story. Dexter, the anarchist, was put to bed without his goodnight kiss. Good old Pinto had done his pal dirt. Never again would he be given a part in Buck Benson's company.
On the Sunday following the day when I got such momentous news from Wynne, I was met suddenly, as my mother and I were leaving the church after the service, by the gaze of a pair of blue eyes that arrested my steps as by magic, and caused the church and the churchgoers to vanish from my sight. The picture of Winifred that had dwelt in my mind so long was that of a beautiful child.
You belong to a family famous all along the coast; you are well known to be the probable heir of one of the largest landowners in England; you may be something more important still; while she, poor girl, what is she that you should rush up to her before all the churchgoers of the parish and address her as Winifred? The daughter of a penniless, drunken reprobate.
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