In the streets Lang Tammas was more stern and dreaded by evildoers, but Hendry had first place in the kirk.

One of his duties was to precede the minister from the session-house to the pulpit and open the door for him.

Having shut Mr.Dishart in he strolled away to his seat.

When a strange minister preached, Hendry was, if possible, still more at his ease.
This will not be believed, but I have seen him give the pulpit-door on these occasions a fling-to with his feet.

However ill an ordinary member of the congregation might become in the kirk, he sat on till the service ended, but Hendry would wander to the door and shut it if he noticed that the wind was playing irreverent tricks with the pages of Bibles, and proof could still be brought forward that he would stop deliberately in the aisle to lift up a piece of paper, say, that had floated there.