Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . houses. In spite of this, Sunday is ob-served by the peasants and their families. Theyounger element secretly welcomes the generalmodern destruction of the old superstitions, witha sort of gleeful satisfaction at being in a wayfreed from the fear of Deity. They still attendand keep up a certain relation with the Churchon the general cautiously suspicious principle ofbeing on the safe side until sure that there is noreal danger. The women and girls nat
Marken and its people : being some account written from time to time both during and after visits covering some considerable space of time ... . houses. In spite of this, Sunday is ob-served by the peasants and their families. Theyounger element secretly welcomes the generalmodern destruction of the old superstitions, witha sort of gleeful satisfaction at being in a wayfreed from the fear of Deity. They still attendand keep up a certain relation with the Churchon the general cautiously suspicious principle ofbeing on the safe side until sure that there is noreal danger. The women and girls naturallycling to the established Church more firmly thanthe men, but it seems to me that their religionis more a direct fear and respect for the HeerPastoor than otherwise. Looking to-night from my window along thedike, and the shining waterway, before going tobed, the only living thing in view is a largewhite cat gleaming in the moonlight on the top THE rVEDDIXG 141 of a post. All at once old Patijs door opened,a broad gleam of yellow light shot across thebrick-paved dike. I heard her cracked voicecalling Poos-Poos I Tis time to go to /^N Sunday he who tarries on Marken, as wellas the native, must attend Church in themorning if he would stand well with the com-munity. The rules of the Reformed Church ofthe Netherlands are conscientiously strict andtolerate no backsliders. The Church is as pow-erful in its demands as is the free Kirk o Scot-land, which, indeed, it recalls; and one is irre-sistibly reminded of the Lothian plowman de-scribed by Robert Louis Stevenson, as beingperplexed wi leisure when one sees the groupsof hard-featured, clean-shaven fishermen intheir Sunday best outside the church at Marken,solemnly standing about the door waiting for 142
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