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"Come, Ben," said Adam, rather sternly, "you let the words o' the Bible alone; you're going too far now"

"What! Are YE a-turnin' roun', Adaoo?"

"Nay, I'ht about the woot a jest-book, han't you, as you're rare and proud on? Keep your dirty fingers to that"

"Why, y' are gettin' as big a saint as Seth Y' are goin' to th' preachin' to-night, I should think Ye'll do finely t' lead the singin' But I don' knohat Parson Irwine 'ull say at his gran' favright Adam Bede a-turnin' Methody"

"Never do you bother yourself aboutto turn Methodist any h you'll turn to sootas they like in religion That's between themselves and God, as he's said to me many a time"

"Aye, aye; but he's none so fond o' your dissenters, for all that"

"Maybe; I'm none so fond o' Josh Tod's thick ale, but I don't hinder you froh at this thrust of Adam's, but Seth said, very seriously "Nay, nay, Addy, thee ion's like thick ale Thee dostna believe but what the dissenters and the Methodists have got the root o' the matter as well as the church folks"

"Nay, Seth, lad; I'ion Let 'em follow their consciences, that's all Only I think it 'ud be better if their consciences 'ud let 'em stay quiet i' the church--there's a deal to be learnt there And there's such a thing as being oversperitial; webeside Gospel i' this world Look at the canals, an' th' aqueduc's, an' th' coal-pit engines, and Arkwright's mills there at Cromford; a s, I reckon But t' hear so nothing all's life but shutting's eyes and looking what's agoing on inside him I know a man must have the love o' God in his soul, and the Bible's God's word But what does the Bible say? Why, it says as God put his sperrit into the workman as built the tabernacle, to s as wanted a nice hand And this isat it: there's the sperrit o' God in all things and all tireat works and inventions, and i' the figuring and the mechanics And God helps us with our headpieces and our hands as well as with our souls; and if ahours--builds a oven for 's wife to save her froarden and ood, and he's just as near to God, as if he was running after so"