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Updated: June 9, 2025
She had taken an intense pride in thinking of him as her ancestor; she had been glad to trace her lineage back over three centuries to the love-lorn French noble who had come to England in the train of the Due d'Anjou and now now she knew she had no connection at all with him, that she was an unnamed, unbaptised nobody an unclaimed waif of humanity whom no one wanted!
The transmutation of human beings into mules, and vice versa, is a common fable, and we meet with wolf-children and the curious superstition that unbaptised people can penetrate into the domains of the enchanted Moors, and that these have no power to injure them.
Ever sithence that tempestuous night, the deep green sea lies heavy on the bosom of the lost land; and no man of unpure heart, nor of evil life, ne unbaptised, ne unshriven, may see nor hear.
But she was still a heathen, or, in other words, unbaptised; and, after consulting the session, whom I advertised of all the circumstances, it was agreed that the gardener's wife should take the vows, and name the child. We all wept at the christening; there was something so unusual and overpowering, so mysterious and exciting, in the whole transaction.
Then there is "disparity of worship," which renders void the marriage of a Christian that is, a Roman Catholic, with an infidel, that is, one who is unbaptised. Marriage of a Roman Catholic with a baptised non-Catholic constitutes a "relative" impediment and needs a special dispensation and provisoes, such as a guarantee to bring up the children in the Roman faith to give it validity.
And Dante makes him do worse; for the whole unbaptised infant world, Christian as well as Pagan, is in his Tartarus. Milton has spoken of the "milder shades of Purgatory;" and truly they possess great beauties. Even in a theological point of view they are something like a bit of Christian refreshment after the horrors of the Inferno.
She no longer had any link with the far- away ancestor who had served her so long as a sort of ideal she was a mere foundling without any name save the unbaptised appellation of Innocent. And she regarded herself as a sort of castaway. She went into the house soon after Robin had left her, and busied herself with sorting the linen and looking over what had to be mended.
"''Tain't the Scripture I'm doubtin', says Ma, 'it's you. "'That isn't as bad, he says, smilin', but I could see he was scared. You know how Ma is especially when you ain't used to her. "'I'd like to ask, says Ma, 'whether you believe that unbaptised infants is goin' to be saved. "'Why, yes, he says. 'I do, "'I suspicioned it, Ma says. Oh, her voice was awful!
Even if these two were damned and all the rest were saved can you not see that a knowledge of their suffering would embitter heaven itself to another hell? Father Riley was good enough to tell us last week of the state of unbaptised infants after death.
It is buried up here in the rock churchyard, in the corner where they bury all the nameless ones, for we thought he had no father, you see, sir, and we knew it was unbaptised. She would not have it christened. She was waiting for you to come home, for she would not tell its name, saying, 'Baby will do for him till his father comes home, and 'Baby' he was, pertws bâch."
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