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may dry up. This is equally true of an egg laid on Good Friday.
Wear three new things on Easter, and you will have good luck all that year.
The Baptists in times past used to immerse their converts in the streams, The immersing was done entirely independent of weather and seasons. Frequently baptism occurred in midwinter, and a hole had to be cut through the ice for the rite. It was said that in these baptizings no one ever took cold, or was harmed in any other way. In our present days faith has weakened, and the rite is performed in-doors, the converts are clad in suits of waterproof, and the water is warmed.
