Clergy -- Fiction; Great Britain -- Fiction; Religious fiction
Before these words were all spoken, the assiduous curate was already
seated, pen in hand, as nearly as possible in the attitude of
Dominichino's St. John, and looking up to Mr. Cartwright for
inspiration.
In truth, the vicar, though the dignity of a secretary was in some sort
necessary to his happiness, would by no means have intrusted the
sketching out of this document to any hand but his own. He felt it to be
probable that it might become matter of history, and as such it demanded
his best attention. While Mr. Hetherington therefore sat with his pen
between his fingers, like a charged gun waiting for the pressure of the
finger that should discharge it, Mr. Cartwright, with the ready hand of
a master produced the following outline in pencil.
CARTWRIGHT PARK.
On Wednesday the 12th July, 1834,
will be held
a serious
FANCY FAIR,
on the lawn of the Rev. Mr. Cartwright's
Mansion,
at
Cartwright Park,
For the promotion of an object
most precious
in the eyes of all
PROFESSING CHRISTIANS:
namely,
The fitting out a mission to Fababo, of which the Rev. Isaac
Isaacs is to be the head and chief; to him being intrusted the
first formation of an organised Christian establishment for
FABABO
and its dependencies, together with the regulation of all adult
and infant schools therein, and the superintendance of all the
bible societies throughout the district.
LARGE FUNDS
being required for this very promising and useful mission, the
ladies and gentlemen in the neighbourhood of Cartwright
Park are religiously requested to attend the Serious Fancy
Fair hereby announced, both as contributors and purchasers;
whereby they will ensure the especial favour of Providence to
themselves, and the blessings of religious and civil freedom,
and the purest evangelical instruction, to unnumbered
THOUSANDS
yet unborn
of
the natives
of
FABABO.
N.B.--Collations will be served at three o'clock in five of the
principal saloons of Mr. Cartwright's mansion. Prayers to be
pronounced at one. Blessing (from the Reverend Mr. Cartwright
himself) at five.
The whole of the religious ceremonies to be performed in the
open air.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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