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On went the word picture that showed how vice could flaunt it in so fallen

an age The preacher spared not plain words, squarely turned hiallery, pointed out with voice and hand the object of his

censure and of God's wrath Had the law pilloried the girl before them

all, it had been but little worse for her She sat like a statue, staring

ide eyes at theabove the altar This, then, hat the

words in the coach last night had ht--this hat his world thought-There arose a coinia The

Reverend Gideon Darden, quitting with an oath the co past his wife, took his stand in the pew

beside the orphan who had lived beneath his roof, who many years

he had cursed upon occasion and sometimes struck, and whom he had latterly

irl," he said, and put an

unsteady hand upon her shoulder "You're a good child; they cannot har body and heavy face toward the preacher,

stemmed in the full tide of his eloquence by this unseearly Scot!" he exclai saint fro of the Lord's h his earth, see but a poisonous weed in his every harmless flower!

Shame on you to beat down the flower that never did you har as lives! Ay, I've had my dram,--the more shame to you

that are justly rebuked out of the mouth of a drunkenhinitary, who had advanced to