The first fidgeted incessantly, nudging and twitching his companion, and looking now and then as if he were ready to start up and interrupt the preacher.

This behavior evidently annoyed his neighbors who kept signing to him to be quiet and hushing him down, while he took no notice of their demonstrations but kept clearing his throat with obtrusive emphasis and at last scraped and shuffled his feet on the floor, though not very noisily.

But Eusebius began again: "And now, my brethren, how ought we to demean ourselves in these fateful times of disturbance?
As Christians; only--or rather, by God's aiding grace as Christians in the true sense of our Lord and Master, according to the precepts given by Him through the Apostles.

Their words shall be mine.

They say there are two paths--the path of Life and the path of Death, and there is a great difference between them.