I don't remember anything more tender and affecting on the conclusion of a Council.
"I shook hands all round and we parted.

God bless them.

I made a hasty call at the Rescue Home, and was very pleased with it--a really nice little place.
"The platform at the station was crowded.

A passage was made for me; but I readily reached the compartment, and having five minutes or so made a little speech, which was received with volley after volley, and cheer after cheer.

There was a good deal of handshaking, any number of 'God bless you's,' and the train bore me away from a people with whom I have certainly had a really hearty and happy fellowship.
"I should have said that, by request of my host, I went through a kind of board school, in a very commodious and suitable building.