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A minister thought he had done a great stroke in this line; he had the vanity to wish to show his proselyte, and brought him to London.
They question his little Huron, and he answers to perfection.
They take him to church, and administer the sacrament, where, as you know, the communion is in both kinds. Afterwards, the minister says to him, 'Well, my son, do you not feel yourself more animated with the love of God? Does not the grace of the sacrament work within you? Is not all your soul warmed ?' 'Yes,' says the Huron: 'the wine does one good, but I think it would have done still better if it had been brandy.'"[213] _Two Cases of Conscience_.--"The cure said that unhappy lovers always talked about dying, but that it was very rare to find one who kept his word; still he had seen one case.
It was that of a young man of family, called Soulpse.
He fell in love with a young lady of beauty and of good character, but without money, and belonging to a dishonoured family.
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