CHAPTER XXXVI.
THE SIN OF SANCTIMONY.
Just at this point arrived Mr.Hall, whom I have before described as the good but callow Methodist preacher on the circuit.

Some people think that a minister of the gospel should be exempt from criticism, ridicule, and military duty.

But the manly minister takes his lot with the rest.
Nothing could be more pernicious than making the foibles of a minister sacred.

Doubtless Mr.Hall has long since come to laugh at his own early follies, his official sanctimoniousness, and all that; and why should not I, who have been a callow circuit-preacher myself in my day, laugh at my Brother Hall, for the good of his kind?
He had come to visit Sister Cynthy Ann, whose name had long stood on the class-book at Harden's Cross-Roads as a good and acceptable member of the church in full connection.

He was visiting formally and officially each family in which there was a member.