I am come to tell you that you will hae the grandest opportunity to-day, to be, not only a man, but a Christ-man.

If you let the opportunity slip by you, I shall feel sairly troubled about it.' "Then he was gone before I could say, 'What is it ?' and I wondered and wondered all day what he could hae meant.

But just before I was ready to say, 'Mr.MacFarlane, lock the safe,' in walks Deacon Strang.

He looked vera downcast and shamefaced, and says he, 'Callendar, you can tak your revenge on me to-morrow, for a' I hae said and done against you for thirty years.

You hold twa notes o' mine, and I canna meet them.