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For my part, I believe it was at the street corner where the Rev. Barnabas Baux used to hold an open-air service after evensong on Sundays. Young Cupids were wont to flit like moths round the paraffin flare of that centre of High Church hymn-singing.
The hand-washing and hymn-singing and feasting on roast lamb in bitter sauce, was over for another twelvemonth. With a glance prophetic, Joseph looked into this new year and shook his head saying slowly, "The signs are full of portent. Darkness doth seem to gather over Israel." "Thy heart hath a burden?" Lazarus asked, coming from the house. The patriarch lifted his face to the young man.
ELIZABETH: You know, something tells me this is wrong. CLAIRE: The hymn-singing ancestors are tuning up. ELIZABETH: I don't know what you mean by that, mother but CLAIRE: But we will now sing, 'Nearer, my God, to Thee: Nearer to Of course you can make fun at me, but something does tell me this is wrong. To do what what DICK: What God did? ELIZABETH: Well yes.
I am rapidly developing into a hymn-singing sister, and the world and the flesh and the devil are shut up in the closet. Let us pray. October 2nd, 1901. At last, dear Mate, I am started at my own work with the babies and there aren't any words to tell you how cunning they are. There are eighty-five high class children in the pay kindergarten, and forty in the free.
"Yes, my rooms are nearly opposite, at the corner of the next street." "I've been down there once or twice lately," she said. "There's a mission-hall just there, and a girl named Kate Stuart gave me a letter to go three times a week." He nodded. "I know the place. Week-night services and hymn-singing and preaching. A cold, desolate affair altogether.
And how dreary seemed the heaven I was set to win no birds, no flowers, no fields or forests, only the eternal continuation of the hymn-singing and protracted meetings, in which, in our system, consisted the glorification of God, which was the end and aim of our existences! I wonder how many religious parents remember the misery of child life under such influences.
I was particularly annoyed by the spasmodic hymn-singing that went on in various parts of the deck. The man who had burst into the saloon shouting "Where is my wife?" reappeared from somewhere, and standing near to me started to undress hastily. I watched him. He had taken off his coat, waistcoat, and boots, when a quiet, amused voice said: "I shouldn't do that if I were you.
Stowe says: "What a lovely place Andover is! So many beautiful walks! Last evening a number of us climbed Prospect Hill, and had a most charming walk. Since I came here we have taken up hymn-singing to quite an extent, and while we were all up on the hill we sang 'When I can read my title clear. It went finely. "I seem to have so much to fill my time, and yet there is my Maine story waiting.
Then M'bo sang them a hymn, with the assistance of Pierre, half a line behind him in a different key, but every bit as flat. The Fans seemed impressed, but any crowd would be by the hymn-singing of my crew, unless they were inmates of deaf and dumb asylums.
Theron's musings were broken in upon from time to time by rumbling outbursts of hymn-singing from the church next door. Surely, he said to himself, there could be no other congregation in the Conference, or in all Methodism, which sang so badly as these Octavians did.
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