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She had heard ht possibly be some distant relative Inasmuch as her father was of

Scotch descent she felt a double interest in hi the first who entered the little, hu and took a

seat upon one of the hard, unco--about Toe--and with a look on his florid

face and a sound in his voice so like that of the dead man that Daisy

half started to her feet when he first took his stand in front of her

and announced the opening hymn His text was: "Why stand ye here all the

day idle?" and so well did he handle it, and so forcible were his

gestures and eloquent his style of delivery, that Daisy listened to hi face and her ears

drinking in every word he uttered

After dwelling for a time upon the loiterers in God's vineyard, the

idlers from choice, orked not for lack of an inclination to do so,

he spoke next of the class whose whole life was a weariness for want of

so to do, and to these he said: "Have you never read hohen

the disciples rebuked the grateful woht have been sold for three hundred pence and given to the

poor, Jesus said unto them, 'The poor ye have with you always,' and is

it not so, my hearers? Are there no poor at your door to be fed, no