EARLY RELIGIOUS IMPRESSIONS.
Dr. Walker’s first recollection of any religious emotions run back to the period of his early childhood. He remembers how every Sunday night all the servants would gather in the hall of the “Big House,” and hold a prayer-meeting with the “old master,” a Dr. Samuel Clark, leading the service. He used to go with his mother to these meetings. The first hymn he ever heard “lined” and sung, i. e., the first hymn that he remembers, was the good, old-fashioned hymn beginning,
“When I can read my title clear.”
He remembers well the edition then used had these words:
“And hellish darts be hurled,”
Instead of the present rendition, which has these words:
“And fiery darts be hurled.”