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Thus the mother was at last rudely awakened to the fact that her son was not ao to destruction, and in the race both himself and her--an event almost equally to be dreaded

In her distress and perplexity she summoned her pastor, and took counsel with hireed to "talk to" the ard subject, and thought that his folly and its consequences could be placed before the young ical statement that it would convince hihteousness" If Haldane's errors had been those of doctrine, Dr Marks would have been an adood doctor was fas of obscure Greek and Hebrew texts, and all the shades of opinions resulting, he was unacquainted with even the alphabet of hu "a sinner," he had one forof the subject hiical truths which he believed applied to the "unrenewed heart ofa sinner a sinner, and all things else by their right names; and thus it is evident that he often had but little of the Pauline guile, which enabled the great apostle to entangle the ard feet of Jew, Greek and Roman, bond and free, in heavenly snares

The youth whole broadside of truth, as it were, moved in such an eccentric orbit, that the doctor could never bring his heavy artillery to bear upon hi on the part of theabout the formal interview At last, however, it was secured by an accident, and his mother felt thereafter, with a certain sense of consolation, that "all had been done that could be done"

Entering the parlor unexpectedly one afternoon, Haldane stumbled directly upon Dr Marks, who opened fire at once, by saying: "My young friend, this is quite providential, as I have long been wishing for an interview Please be seated, for I have certain things to say which relate to your spiritual and teh the latter is a very secondary matter"

Haldane was too well bred to break rudely and abruptly away, and yet itand grace hich he would take a dentist's chair