Now! Then! A Yorkshire Almanac for 2023

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I believe we are to have a very nice home, where there are no children, quite a recommendation, seeing how they are usually trained! I hope if I have not both sense and grace to train mine so that they shall not be a nuisance to everybody about them, that God will in mercy take them to Heaven in infancy.

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Via Roy Hattersley, who comments:

The image of the dying infant – about to rise to glory, untainted by vice and redeeming its parents by its spotless example – was a constant source of inspiration to Victorian Methodism. But that was not quite what Catherine Booth meant (Hattersley 2000).

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In announcing to her parents that the itinerary of this revivalism was carrying them to Leeds, Mrs. Booth expresses an opinion which gives one an amusing view of her vigorous character:

I believe we are to have a very nice home, where there are no children, quite a recommendation, seeing how they are usually trained! I hope if I have not both sense and grace to train mine so that they shall not be a nuisance to everybody about them, that God will in mercy take them to Heaven in infancy.

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• Methodism (37) ·
• Pregnancy (9) ·
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