. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CORNER OF THIRD AND FERRY STREETS Dr. Herron—Dr. Riddle. 163 church, for I have no recollection of making a beginning;and the habit thus formed has clung to me through is no merit in thus following a bent whether naturalor acquired, however commendable ; in itself, absentingmyself would in this particular case have proved apunishment. I recall going with my sainted mother tochurch, and sitting beside her on the Sabbath and uponother occasions through the week. When baptized,I was four or f
. Life and reminiscences from birth to manhood of Wm. G. Johnston . THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, CORNER OF THIRD AND FERRY STREETS Dr. Herron—Dr. Riddle. 163 church, for I have no recollection of making a beginning;and the habit thus formed has clung to me through is no merit in thus following a bent whether naturalor acquired, however commendable ; in itself, absentingmyself would in this particular case have proved apunishment. I recall going with my sainted mother tochurch, and sitting beside her on the Sabbath and uponother occasions through the week. When baptized,I was four or five years old,—why not in infancy, Iknow not, unless possibly she had been waiting for myfather to unite with the church, which he did not dountil a still later period. I have a distinct recollectionof the occasion referred to, and of standing at my mothersside near the pulpit, as Dr. Herron sprinkled water on myhead. I remember, too, that I muttered some words ofdispleasure because a few drops had fallen on my widelinen collar. No doubt all this became fixed
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