disconcerting.
"These humiliations are doubtless a lesson," resumed the Rabbi as they hurried to Mains, "and a rebuke.

Snuffing is in no sense a necessity, and I have long recognised that the habit requires to be restricted--very carefully restricted.

For some time I have had fixed times--once in the forenoon, once in the afternoon, and again in the evening.

Had I restrained myself till my work was over and I had returned home this misadventure would not have occurred, whereby I have been hindered and the people will have been kept waiting for their spiritual food.
"It is exactly twenty years to-night since I began this meeting in Mains," the Rabbi explained to Carmichael, "and I have had great pleasure in it and some profit.

My subject has been the Epistle to the Romans, and by the goodness of God we are approaching the last chapters.