"You remember Mr.B.'s sermon, the other Sunday ?" "I don't want to hear such sermons; I never wish to hear Mr.B.in our church again.

Ministers can't help the evil, perhaps,--can't cure it, any more than we can,--but defend it!--it always went against my common sense.

And I think you didn't think much of that sermon, either." "Well," said Shelby, "I must say these ministers sometimes carry matters further than we poor sinners would exactly dare to do.

We men of the world must wink pretty hard at various things, and get used to a deal that isn't the exact thing.

But we don't quite fancy, when women and ministers come out broad and square, and go beyond us in matters of either modesty or morals, that's a fact.