We certainly cannot and will not use the occasion for vulgar display.

Let her friends be allowed the gratification of their wishes.

I see no harm in it." So the arrangements were made, with some difficulty, for the service at the tent; and Virginia with her uncle and Rollin, accompanied by Maxwell, Rachel and President Marsh, and the quartet from the First Church, went down and witnessed one of the strange things of their lives.
It happened that that afternoon a somewhat noted newspaper correspondent was passing through Raymond on his way to an editorial convention in a neighboring city.

He heard of the contemplated service at the tent and went down.

His description of it was written in a graphic style that caught the attention of very many readers the next day.