England -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction; Working class -- Fiction
The church is beautiful now, not only to look at, nor merely in the
well-performed music of the services, but in the number and devotion of
the worshippers and communicants. Of course, all is not perfect in the
place--never, never will it be so in this world; but the boys and youths
can, and often are, saved from a fit of thoughtless heathenism by their
clubs and their guilds, and the better families are mostly communicants.
Blots there are, and the vicar sometimes desponds when some fresh evil
crops up; but Miss Sophia always tells him to hope, and that--
"The many prayers, the holy tears, the nurture in the Word,
Have not in vain ascended up before the Gracious Lord."
FINIS.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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