Identifier: oursundaybookofr00arch (find matches)
Title: Our Sunday book of reading and pictures
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Archer, Thomas, 1830-1893
Subjects: English literature American literature
Publisher: London : Griffith Farran Okeden & Welsh
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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eal hair, and no mistake—no chignons ; and as an investment, clipping the young Bergennese heads,supposing they would, for a moderate consideration, consent to it, would paywell at the beginning of the London season. Bergen is an awfully hot place when the sun is well out, as it was during mystay; and if it was always so, I would as soon live at Cheltenham as there insummer, and that is saying a good deal. But, as I said before, it was thedouce, orderly, cheerful aspect and conduct of the Bergennese on Sunday thatso much pleased me ; not like Scotland, as if half the sour-featured west hadset tryste to be hanged. There were no young plants of grace that lookedcouthie and free. No; but honest, worthy Christian people, who, havingserved God in His house in spirit and truth in the morning, came forth in theafternoon to bask in the beauties of His creation. And this Sunday introductionto the Norwegian folks impressed me strongly in their favour.—A Trif toNorivay in 1873, by Sixty-ovc.
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Hand in hand. ( 57 ) ®y^4^s ^g^- Whatever may have been the origin of the wedding ring, the Church tookcare that it should be considered a holy thing. The Doctrine of the MasseBooke (1554) contains a form for the hallowing of a womans ring at wedding,in which are the following prayers :— Thou maker and conserver of mankind, gever of spiritual grace and graunter of eternal salvation,Lord send thy blessing upon this ring, that she which shall weare it maye be armed wyth the vertue ofheavenly defence, and that it maye profit her to eternal salvation thorowe Christ, etc. Halow thou. Lord, this ring which we blesse in thy holye name, that what woman soever shallweare it may stand fast in thy peace, and continue in thy wyl, and live and grow and waxe old in thylove, etc. Holy water was then to be sprinkled upon the ring. In the Hereford, York, and Salisbury Missals directions are given at themarriage for the ring to be put first on the thumb, after on the second finger,then on the third,

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