Sir Roger De Coverley's Sunday
Sir Roger De Coverley's Sunday
Sir Roger is a fictional character created by Addison. He is a good church man and has beautified his church with several quotations from the holy Bible. He gave the church goers a hassock and a common prayer book. He employed an itinerant.
Sir Roger was the master of the church. He maintained strict discipline and good decorum in the church. He did not allow anyone to sleep during the sermon. He waked the dozing people.
Sir Roger had an eccentric nature. During the prayer Sir Roger also joined the crowd to sing Psalms. But Roger did not sing along with the crowd. He said ‘Amen’ three or four times. When the crowd was kneeling for prayer Sir Roger stood up to count the number of people present.
Addison recalls an incident which exhibited Sir Roger’s great authority over the tenants. Sir Roger was angry with his tenant Matthews in a sermon. He warned Matthews not to disturb the people. Matthews was an idle man and he knocked his heels together to amuse people. Matthew grows silent when Roger scolds him.
Roger's subjects blindly obeyed his order and never thought that he was behaving in a funny way. But his friends saw his behaviour from a different angle. They found oddities in him yet they all admired his common sense and goodness of character. They took his oddities not as his defects but as his great brilliance to his good qualities and good character.
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