More William
“It originated with the housemaid whose brother was a reformed burglar now employed in a grocer’s shop.
‘’E’s got conversion,’ she said to William. ‘’E got it quite sudden, like, an’ ’e give up all ’is bad ways straight off. ’E’s bin like a heavenly saint ever since.’ William was deeply interested. The point was all innocently driven in later by the Sunday-school mistress. William’s family had no real faith in the Sunday school as a corrective to William’s inherent wickedness, but they knew ...that no Sabbath peace or calm was humanly possible while William was in the house. So they brushed and cleaned and tidied him at 2.45 and sent him, pained and protesting, down the road every Sunday afternoon. Their only regret was that Sunday school did not begin earlier and end later.
Fortunately for William, most of his friends’ parents were inspired by the same zeal, so that he met his old cronies of the weekdays – Henry, Ginger, Douglas and all the rest – and together they beguiled the monotony of the Sabbath.MoreLess
‘’E’s got conversion,’ she said to William. ‘’E got it quite sudden, like, an’ ’e give up all ’is bad ways straight off. ’E’s bin like a heavenly saint ever since.’ William was deeply interested. The point was all innocently driven in later by the Sunday-school mistress. William’s family had no real faith in the Sunday school as a corrective to William’s inherent wickedness, but they knew ...that no Sabbath peace or calm was humanly possible while William was in the house. So they brushed and cleaned and tidied him at 2.45 and sent him, pained and protesting, down the road every Sunday afternoon. Their only regret was that Sunday school did not begin earlier and end later.
Fortunately for William, most of his friends’ parents were inspired by the same zeal, so that he met his old cronies of the weekdays – Henry, Ginger, Douglas and all the rest – and together they beguiled the monotony of the Sabbath.MoreLess
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