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Updated: June 11, 2025
Will you have it consecrated on the Eve instead, Saint John's Night? Time Sunset. Topready started. 'Rather late, is it not? he asked. It was a great concourse that lined the hillside on the morrow when the sun was going down. The Bishop had spoken that morning in the old plain church of how he wished them to observe certain days of prayer and thanksgiving.
'Archdeacon Maynard's a vice-president of the Free and Open Churchmen in England. I heard him speak eloquently, if a little floridly, on the right of the poor to the House of God. Manners chuckled. 'England's some way off, he said. Topready spoke from his heart. 'I don't like it.
He asked them as Christians to be glad for that same sun's blessings at Christmas time. He himself had a mind to light a fire on that Saint John's Night to the glory of God. Topready looked thoughtful after church. 'If I adopt your calendar loyally as far as may be, do you see your way to help me against the system? he asked of a sudden. His grey-blue eyes were full of fight. The Bishop nodded.
The Bishop delighted in some of those airs that the sticks beat time to. He was greedy of fantastic interpretations as he wrote their voweled refrains down in a note-book. 'We may have a Harvest Thanksgiving in church, may we not, this coming Sunday? he said. Now Harvest Thanksgivings were as red rags to Topready. 'Why should we bind upon Africa a burden that irks England? he groaned.
What a festival Topready might have just about this time if he only liked. The masasas tinted with copper, crimson; mauve, and pink, and other leaves showing faery green and gold. Saint Matthew's Day. The festival of the foolery of riches when Spring is everywhere and the sun is shining. Oct. Preached at the blessing of the boats in a small Sussex harbor the herring season just beginning.
When they reached the hill's crown there was some delay in the gathering dusk. They were stacking the wood for the sacrifice. At last Topready turned to his chief with a happy face. All was prepared. The Bishop's voice rang out in one sonorous prayer of oblation. Then someone handed him a grass torch and he kindled the thatch above the altar.
Topready did not look over-cheerful when his leader greeted him with congratulations on the building of the church. 'It's all very well, or rather it might have been ever so much better, he said, as they went in. In the evening there was much time to talk. They sat on the stony rise above the house with a wide valley view. The starlight was brilliant above them eager, perfervid, passionate.
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