...taught me to say at night the Lord's Prayer, to repeat the Belief, and to close with the prayer,— ' Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Bless the bed that I lie on.'" (Laughter.) The South American Missionary Society. The Bishop of Antigua said at the Annual Meeting...

...Protestant England, and occasionally lugged out of dark, superstitious lurking-holes to this day : — " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on." This she sputtered, rather savagely than solemnly, in the tingling, perplexed ears of Grand'mere Dupuy,...

...Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ; Four corners to my bed, Four angels at my head, One to watch, and one to pray, And two to bear my soul away. Cried at the top of the voice to inattentive herd-boys, when they allow their charge to stray from...

...their labours to be a land of darkness. Gross ignorance prevailed. The famous versicle commencing, — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on, was no unusual evening prayer. Manners were rude : women smoked. Morality was low : couplings unhallowed...

...Gospels and the Acts, were in the habit of repeating, by way of prayer, every night by their bedsides, " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, bless the bed that I lie on," &c. It is with a view to supplying this foundation-knowledge that our Church Catechism is such an indispensable...

...parents, a very large proportion of our lesser educated people who pray at all, use the foolish rhyme— "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Bless the bed that I lie on;" ' " A. coster lad thus described his life: ' On a Sunday I goes out selling, and all I yarns I keeps....

...of the four Kvangelists, and his sister's was sculptured with them ; hence the nursery rhyme — " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on." Salsarium is salteellar. A saltcellar of the King, arg. deaur. per totum cum columpnis, 6 papilionibus,...

...What's that ?" asked Agnes. "It's what mother taught us," said Charlotte. " Don't you know it ?— "'Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Twelve angels round it spread: Two to head, and two to feet, Two to make my...

...Much of this superstition has survived to our own times, as witness the popular evening prayer, — " Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on ; Four corners to my bed, Four angela at my head : One to eiag, and one to pray, *n<j two to carry...

...us in childhood have fallen asleep at night, saying over to ourselves our little nursery rhyme,— ' Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head;...watch, and one to pray, And two to bear my soul away.' And, as children, we have loved to think of the angels with their sweet songs, and their gentle deeds,...