For every man and woman in the village intends to keep away from Church altogether if he does not give us our services exactly as we have always been accustomed to them.

And it won't be pleasant for him to read prayers and preach to empty seats, will it ?" "Scarcely!" And Angus, standing near the fire, bent his brows with meditative sternness on the glowing flames.

Then suddenly addressing Helmsley, he said--"You asked me a while ago, David, why I didn't go to Church.

I told you I wished I could go, as I used to do with my father every Sunday.

For, when I was a boy, our Sundays were real devotional days--our preachers _felt_ what they preached, and when they told us to worship the great Creator 'in spirit and in truth,' we knew they were in earnest about it.