The wedding had been on Wednesday.

On Thursday all gathered, by invitation, at the Oaks, where Mr.and Mrs.Dinsmore gave them a royal entertainment.

On Friday the same thing was repeated at The Laurels, on Saturday at Fairview, and on the following Monday all were to assemble at Woodburn.
Being a Christian, Sabbath keeping connection, no one thought for a moment of profaning the Lord's day by frivolity and merry making.

Those who were able attended church in the morning; in the afternoon the Ion and Woodburn people taught their Sunday-school classes as usual, and afterward held a Bible class among themselves at Woodburn, that being the point nearest to the schoolhouse on the Woodburn place, at which they had just concluded the exercises for the day.
Dr.and Mrs.Landreth and her brother, the Rev.Cyril Keith were, just at that time, among the guests of Captain and Mrs.Raymond, and, by the request of the little company, the minister led the exercises.
Turning over the leaves of his Bible, "The thought strikes me," he said, "that perhaps godliness would be as good a subject for to-day's consideration as we could find.

'Godliness with contentment is great gain,' the apostle tells us.