...country. The author, when a child, was taught by an old woman to offer the fol- CHAP. \ 1 1. lowing singular prayer : Four corners to my bed, Four angeU...Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie ou." A party of Cossacks arrived as pilgrims, stragglers • i • fr°m fa* returning homeward from...

...their children by the peasantry are the goodly verses handed down from their popish ancestors,— " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on," &c. The degree of ignorance on all scriptural subjects, and of dull, unenquiring irreligiousness which...

...their children by the peasantry are the goodly verses handed down from their popish ancestors, — " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on," &c. The degree of ignorance on all scriptural subjects, and of dull, uninquiring irreligiousness which...

...in that Christian form of prayer, to be said every night, expressly addressed to them, beginning ' Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on,' &c. Or, as in the well-known evening hymn of our Protestant Bishop Kerr : • May my bleet guardian,...

...taught their children by the peasantry are the goodly verses ianded down from their popish ancestors,— "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on," &c. The degree of ignorance on all scriptural subjects, and of dull, unfnquiring irreligiousncss which...

...their children by the peasantry are the goodly' verses handed down from their popish ancestors, — " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on," &,c. The degree of ignorance on all Scriptural subjects, and of dull, uninquiring irreligiousness which...

...creed, the little evening chant, which I have heard make sweet music in many a Catholic cottage:— " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ; One to watch, one to pray, Two to bear my soul away." And Margaret, when he had finished, commended...

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...believe consisted in the repetition of a rude couplet, which had been received from a former age, " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on." In the immediate neighbourhood was resident a 'squire of the Roman Catholic denomination, who was not...

...ignorant country people still use a rhyming prayer, which seems to be derived from this practice : " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on," &c. GG 2 With these superstitions was also joined much profaneness and shameful abuse of churches,...