Knew All By Heart

Knew All by Heart

The vicar of Skegby, England, was marrying a couple the other day, both of whom had been constant attendants at his Sunday school. The woman in the case had, indeed, but recently captured a prize offered for ability to repeat by rote without mistake the entire catechism of the Church of England. She had apparently suffered nothing from the tax upon her memory until the clergyman turned to her before the altar, and asked, according to the ritual, "Mary Jane, wilt thou have this roan to be thy wedded husband?" Then habit asserted itself, and the tangled skein of memory refused to unravel. "Yes, verily, by God's help. so I will," she replied, "and I heartily thank our Heavenly Father, who hath brought me into this state of salvation."