When a million or two are preached every year, they have a strong claim on our attention.

To use a trade phrase, sermons are firm, and I believe a moderate tax on them would yield an astonishing income." "See how you talk of them, Edward; as if they were a commercial commodity.

If you respected them----" "I do.

I grant them a steady pneumatic pressure in the region of morals, and even faith.

Picture to yourself, Ruth, New York without sermons.