Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Marshall Mather
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you'll happen larn to love me as I know I'm loved aboon.'
As he sat down many in the large congregation would fain have risen and grasped him by the hand, but propriety forbade. In another minute Mr. Penrose came out of the vestry prepared for the rite of immersion, and Moses was a second time baptized in Rehoboth. As he stepped out of the waters a cloud passed from before the October sun, and a flood of light poured through the open window above the baptistery, while a white dove from the neighbouring farm perched for a moment on the wooden sill. Then Milly once more turned to her father and said: 'Yon's th' brid, faither, but I don't yer th' voice!' 'What voice?' whispered Abraham Lord. 'Why, faither, thaa knows--"This is My beloved Son."' But Moses heard that voice in his heart. III. |
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