Morris tribune., 1880-08-12
Bible Names in England.

If we look over the pages of the direc-
tories of West Yorkshire and East Lam
cashire, and strike out the surnames, we
could imagine we were consulting an
GENTLY inscribed registers of Joppa and
Jericho. 1t would seem as if Canaan and
the West Riding had got inextricably
mixed. sou tih e agb 'aa
What a spectacle meets cur eye! With
iu the limits of ten pages we have three
Pharaohs, while as many Hephzibahs are
to be found on single page. Adah and
Zllah Pickles, are milliners. Jehoiada
Rhodes makes saws-not Solemon's sort
and nauph CraN shaw keeps q farm.
Vashni, from somewhere in the Chroni-
cles, is rescued from oblivion by Vashni
| Wilkinson, coal merchant, who very like
ly goes to BarzJllai Williamson, on the
same page, for his JOINTS, Barzlllai being
butcher. joachim, known to but few
situated in the Book of Kings, is in the
person of joachim Firth, a beer retailer,
familiar to all his neighbors. Heber
Holdsworth on one page is faced by En-
Illingwsrth on the other. Asa and Joab
are very popular, while Abner, Adna, As
hazel, Erastus, Eunice, Benaiah, Aquila,
Elihu and Philemon enjoy fair amount
of patronage. Shadrach, Meshach and
Abednego, having been rescued from
Chaldaan fire, have been deluged with
baptismal water. / have lighted upon
name after name that / did not know ex.
| listed in the Bible at all till I looked in.
to the Lancashire and Yorkshire direc.
tories.
The Bible has decided the nomencla-
ture Of the North Of England. In towns
like Oldham, Bolton, Ashton and Black.
burn, the clergyman's baptismal register
is but a record of Bible names. A cleri
cal friend of mine christened twins Cain
and Abel, only the other day, much
against his own wishes. Another parsor
on the Derbyshire border was gravely in
| formed, at the proper moment, that the
name of baptism was Ramoth-Gllead
.tBoY or girl, ehG he asked, IN some
what sgitated voice. The parents haG
opened the Bible haphazard, according
to the village tradition, and selected the
first name the eye fell on.
1t was but a. year ago a little CHILD
waslchristened Tellno in town within
six miles of Manchester, at the sugges
ticn of eotton-splnner, the father, 1
workman of the name of Lees, having
4 asked Ibis 9 ddFice. u 81 suppose 0
must be Scripture name,'' sale
4 his master. "Oh, yes; that's 50, o.
/ course" Suppose you choose Tellno,
4 said his employer. s'That'Il do, : replies
the other. who had never heard il before
and liked it the better on that account
The child is now Tell-no, Lees C'Lees'
| being the Lancashire way of pronouncin,
Il stLies y the father, too late, finding tina
he had boen huaxed. tsSirs'' was he al,
swer given to a bewildered curate, afte
Il the usual demand to name the child. FL
iobiected, but was informed that it was
scripture name, ard the, verse, "Sirs'
what must, do to be saved?' was tri
umphantly appealed to. This remind
one of the Puritan who STYLED his do
Moreover after the dog in the Gospei
Moreover the dog came and licked hi
sores.'' q. ,.........., .55l,...ss s.
Il There is, again, q story of q clergyma
making the customary demand as to
name from o knot Of women round tn
front. "Ax her, said one. Turning t
the woman who appeared to be indicat
led, he again asked, aWhat name2'' "a
4 her, she replied. The third woman be
ing questioned, gave the same reply. A
last He discovered the name 10 be th
! scripturai Achsah, Caleb's daughter
name by the way, which was somewhs
popular with our forefathers.