"As for Charlotte," thought
Christina, "I believe she knows everything." So Mrs. Good. and Miss
Wright continued to turn to the east during the time the Creed was
said, and by-and-by others followed their example, and ere long the
few who had stood out yielded and turned eastward too; and then
Theobald made as though he had thought it all very right and proper
from the first, but like it he did not. By-and-by Charlotte tried to
make him say "Alleluia" instead of "Hallelujah," but this was going
too far, and Theobald turned, and she got frightened and ran away.
And they changed the double chants for single ones, and altered them
psalm by psalm, and in the middle of psalms, just where a cursory
reader would see no reason why they should do so, they changed from
major to minor and from minor back to major; and then they got
"Hymns Ancient and Modern," and, as I have said, they robbed him of
his beloved bands, and they made him preach in a surplice, and he must
have celebration of the Holy Communion once a month instead of only
five times in the year as heretofore, and he struggled in vain against
the unseen influence which he felt to be working in season and out
of season against all that he had been accustomed to consider most
distinctive of his party.
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