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Keziah Coffin

CHAPTER V
19/54

As for my being a false prophet and a worker of iniquity"-- he smiled--"well, there is another verse of Scripture I would call to your attention: 'Judge not, that ye be not judged.'" He sat down.

There was silence for a moment and then a buzz of whispering.

Captain Eben, who had heard him with a face of iron hardness, rapped the table.
"We will sing in closin'," he said, "the forty-second hymn.

After which the benediction will be pronounced." The Regular minister left the Come-Outers' meeting with the unpleasant conviction that he had blundered badly.

His visit, instead of tending toward better understanding and more cordial relationship, had been regarded as an intrusion.


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