'These things should ye have done, and not left the others undone.' I say these words not by way of blame, but of warning.

Heaven forbid that I ever shall need to repeat them!" As the congregation looked about at one and another whom the cap might fit, everybody chanced to see Deacon Quickset arise.
"My friends," said the deacon, "I'm one of the very kind of people Jesus meant when He said the words that our pastor took for his text to-night; and, for fear that some one mayn't know it, I arise to own up to it myself.

Nobody's stood up for the letter of the law and the plan of salvation stronger than I, and nobody has taken more pains to dodge the spirit of it.

The scales have fallen from my eyes lately, but I suppose all of you have been seeing me as I am for a long, long time, and you've known me for the hypocrite that I now can see I've always been.

I've done a good many things that I oughtn't to have done.