For instance, deacon," said the minister, suddenly, looking very stern and judicial, "Mrs.Poynter has been to me several times to explain that the reason that she does not pay her subscription to the last collection for the Missionary Association is that she cannot get the interest on the mortgage that you have been holding for her for a long time, and which, she says, you have collected." "Dr.Guide," said the deacon, icily, "religion is religion, and business is business.

You understand religion--to a certain extent; though I must own that I don't think you understand it as far as I once thought you did.

But about business, you must excuse me if I say you don't know anything, especially if it's business that somebody else has to carry on.

If Mrs.Poynter don't like the way I'm doing business for her, she knows a way to get rid of me, and she can do it easily enough." "Deacon," said the minister, "I don't wish to offend you, but matters of this sort may develop into a scandal, and injure the cause for which both of us profess to be working with all our hearts.

And, by the way, the Browning children are likely to be sent away from the academy at which they are boarding, because their expenses are not paid, according to the terms of the trust reposed in you by their father.