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"Why, Thought far outstrips puny Action!" said I--" it reaches

deeper, soars higher; in our actions we are pigods, and ehed the Preacher, "while we think, our fellows perish

in ignorance and want!"

"Huht," pursued the Preacher, "may become a vice, as it did

with the old-ti themselves

away fro noble thoughts and drea

the world very carefully to the devil And, as to s it up" Here he took the pipe from

his lips and thrust it behind his back

"Why?"

"It has beco,

sir," he went on, sence, should breed me more discredit than all the

cardinal sins, and beco-block to others Only last

Sunday I happened to overhear thite-headed old fellows

talking 'A fine serh,' replied the other, 'but it ht ha' been better--ye

see--'e s it up, for

it would appear that if a preacher prove himself as human as his