![]() Taken, I suppose, at a disadvantage, my Father told me I must not pray for 'things like that'. This, I recollect, placed my Mother in a dilemma, and she consulted my Father. Accordingly, I introduced a supplication for this object into my evening prayer, carefully adding the words: 'If it is Thy will'. 'Very well I had need of a large painted humming-top which I had seen in a shop window in the Caledonian Road. Associations with people outside their strict sect were discouraged, and the young Edmund grew up with virtually no companions outside his immediate family.Much of the pleasure from reading this book comes from the reactions of the infant Edmund to the situation in which he found himself, which although clearly a loving home, was an unusual and sometimes harsh environment for a young child: My parents said: 'Whatever you need, tell Him and He will grant it, if it is His will. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even in the much more religious atmosphere of Victorian Britain, the Gosse family was extreme in its views, and their religion permeated their every activity, and those of their son. His parents, Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes, were evangelical Christians, members of the strict Plymouth Brethren sect, and from the outset their religious faith overpowered any other considerations in the upbringing of their only son. ![]()
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