"They are as dry and as dead as ever." His wife was silent for some time, for she, too, had her moments of doubt and fear, but she said: "I think there is some sign.

The people were certainly much impressed this morning, and the Bible class was very large, and they were very attentive." "So they are every day," said the minister, rather bitterly.

"But what does it amount to?
There is not a sign of one of these young people 'coming forward.' Just think, only one young man a member of the church, and he hasn't got much spunk in him.

And many of the older men remain as hard as the nether millstone." "I really think," said his wife, "that a number of the young people would 'come forward' if some one would make a beginning.

They are all very shy." "So you always say," said her husband, with a touch of impatience; "but there is no shyness in other things, in their frolics and their fightings.