He began deprecatingly: "Why are you so hard on me, aunt?
Look at Andy, he is not a member of any church and you don't scold him.

Surely the Baptist Church is better than none." The quick reply came: "Andy! Oh! Andy, he's naked, but you are clothed in rags." He never quite regained his standing with dear Aunt Aitken.

I might yet be reformed, being unattached; but Leander had chosen a sect and that sect not of the New Jerusalem.
It was in connection with the Swedenborgian Society that a taste for music was first aroused in me.

As an appendix to the hymn-book of the society there were short selections from the oratorios.

I fastened instinctively upon these, and although denied much of a voice, yet credited with "expression," I was a constant attendant upon choir practice.