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"If any interrupt or oppose a preacher in season of worship, they shall be reproved by the Magistrate, and on repetition, shall pay L5, or stand two hours on a block four feet high, with this inscription in Capitalls, 'A WANTON GOSPELLER." As with other of their severe laws the rigid punishment provoked the crime, for Wanton Gospellers abounded.
"Why, he said `Pray for yourself and your lord, Lady, and let this be; it were the better for you. The great Devil, to whom he 'longeth, be his aid in the like case!" "Truly, he may be in the like case one day," said Maude. "But what had Master Calverley done?" Bertram dared only whisper the name of the horrible crime of which alone poor Calverley stood accused. "He was a Lollard a Gospeller."
The next morning Antipas Newton was brought before the Magistrates for examination. Antipas seemed so quiet and peaceful in his demeanor, that Squire Hathorne could hardly credit the story told by the constables of his violent behavior on the night of the arrest. "I thought you were a Quaker," said he to the prisoner. "No, only half Quaker; the other half gospeller," replied the old man meekly.
"Not I, by Saint Giles," replied the rider; "I listened blithely enough to the Laird of Monance, when he told me ye were all cheats and knaves; but when he would have had me go hear one Wiseheart, a gospeller as they call him, he might as well have persuaded the wild colt that had flung one rider to kneel down and help another into the saddle."
"Now, by the Saints, a most virtuous homily!" said the Baron; "quaintly conceived and curiously pronounced, and to a well-chosen congregation. Hark ye, Sir Gospeller! trow ye to have a fool in hand? Know I not that your sect rose by bluff Harry Tudor, merely because ye aided him to change his Kate; and wherefore should I not use the same Christian liberty with mine?
The Church professes to place in each parish an official teacher of religion and morality, and most of the Nonconformist communities do the same. The lecturer who comes from Oxford or Cambridge, delivers his course, and departs, has no doubt his uses. He is like the "Hot Gospeller" of an earlier age, or the "Missioner" of to-day.
Owen Lovejoy, the life-long apostle of Abolitionism, the fervid gospeller of Emancipation, was dead; and it seemed almost the irony of Fate that, at such a time, when Emancipation most needed all its friends to make it secure, its doughtiest champion should fall. But perhaps the eloquent tributes paid to his memory, in the Halls of Congress, helped the Cause no less.
"Folks cannot have alway what they would," said Alice, "But you know, neighbour, Bessy Foulkes is one of us." "Well, what then? So's Master Clere." Alice made no answer. "What mean you, Alice Mount? Master Clere's a Gospeller, and has been this eight years or more." "I did not gainsay it, Meg." "Nay, you might not gainsay it, but you looked as if you would if you opened your mouth."
The world is too busy for the pedants who would stem the social revolution, was his argument the rich men have too much to do to hide their common frailties that they should put on the habits of the friars. Let this hot gospeller acquire a fortune and he would become as the others before a month had passed. The women would see to that for were not two of them already about the business?
When the latter reluctantly brought his eyes back into range with the dead-earnest ones that had never ceased to look on him with that strange wistful expression, then Henry Vail proceeded: "I want you, Charley." Charley laughed heartily now. "Me? What a missionary I would make! Kid-glove gospeller I'd be called in the first three days. What a superb Sunday-school teacher I'd make!
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