Now had the great Proclaimer, with a voice More awful than the sound of trumpet, cried Repentance, and Heaven's kingdom nigh at hand To all
baptized. To his great baptism flocked With awe the regions round, and with them came From Nazareth the son of Joseph deemed To the flood Jordan--came as then obscure, Unmarked, unknown.
"And now, sir," she added earnestly, "can you tell me this--will it be just the same for him as if you had
baptized him?"
But by and by, he said, he would return, --as soon as he felt himself
baptized again.
The Duchess de Longueville has invited me to pass a few days in Normandy, and has deputed me, while her son is being
baptized, to go and prepare her residence at Rouen; after which, if nothing new occurs, I shall go and bury myself in my convent at Noisy-le-Sec."
Another five days passed, and then the young Prince Nicholas Andreevich was
baptized. The wet nurse supported the coverlet with her while the priest with a goose feather anointed the boy's little red and wrinkled soles and palms.
For all things are
baptized at the font of eternity, and beyond good and evil; good and evil themselves, however, are but fugitive shadows and damp afflictions and passing clouds.
But the seriousness of his behaviour to them, and the scruples he made of marrying the women, because they were not
baptized and professed Christians, gave them an exceeding reverence for his person; and there was no need, after that, to inquire whether he was a clergyman or not.
We shrink from the unmorality of the Latin races, but Hardy has divined in the heart of our own race a lingering heathenism, which, if not Greek, has certainly been no more
baptized than the neo-hellenism of the Parisians.
It was not improbable that a most aristocratic origin might be hunted up by the heralds for this name of Malicorne; might it not come from some estate where a bull with mortal horns had caused some great misfortune, and
baptized the soil with the blood it had spilt?
He
baptized his adopted child, and gave him the name of Quasimodo, either because he desired thereby to mark the day, when he had found him, or because he wished to designate by that name to what a degree the poor little creature was incomplete, and hardly sketched out.
The religion of the Dodsons consisted in revering whatever was customary and respectable; it was necessary to be
baptized, else one could not be buried in the church-yard, and to take the sacrament before death, as a security against more dimly understood perils; but it was of equal necessity to have the proper pall-bearers and well-cured hams at one's funeral, and to leave an unimpeachable will.
"
Baptized yet?" became his stereotyped question, as he reached out his terrible hands.