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Calvinism was once virtually the American Faith. It came to New England with the Puritans, to New York with the Dutch Reformed, to Pennsylvania with the German Reformed. And wherever Scottish Presbyterians went in the U.S., predestination, 90-minute sermons, and the "Shorter Catechism" went with them.
*Another stopper: Said a one-armed man, after a long catechism, ''I'll answer one more question and that's all." The question: "How did you lose your arm?" His answer: "It was bitten off."
No doubt the forces of progress were on Professor Angold's side., Besides, the British gypsies were more assimilated than most other gypsy stocks. But progress and assimilation might have a stiff tussle with a people which still preserved its folk wisdom in a six-line catechism: Miro dado...
5) Christianize the nation by training boys and girls as "an eager young army, ready and equipped to fight the devil of greed and all his works. . . . But if children are merely to be taught to mumble that their duty is [in the words of the Anglican catechism] 'to...
A far cry is all this from the class consciousness of the Church of England (and U. S. Episcopal) Catechism: "My duty ... is ... To order myself lowly and reverently to all my betters . . . And to do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to...