I hope it won't rain Sunday.

We have had so many stormy Sundays lately." "Yes, the audiences have been quite small for some time.

People will not come out to church in a storm." The Rev.Henry Maxwell sighed as he said it.

He was thinking of the careful, laborious effort he had made in preparing sermons for large audiences that failed to appear.
But Sunday morning dawned on the town of Raymond one of the perfect days that sometimes come after long periods of wind and mud and rain.

The air was clear and bracing, the sky was free from all threatening signs, and every one in Mr.Maxwell's parish prepared to go to church.