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But it often is so to a degree that cannot be too severely condemned The world is thewith the crieneralizes to such an extent that exceptional cases have little chance of a special hearing If by anycan be obtained, the world is usually just, and often quite generous But in the main it says to all: "Keep your proper places in the ranks If you fall out, we must leave you behind; if you make trouble, we must abate you as a nuisance" This certainty has the effect of keeping many in their places who otherould drop out and make trouble, and is, so far, wholeso truth, the wayside of life is lined with those who, for some reason, have become disabled and have fallen out of their places; and miserably would many of them perish did not the Spirit of Him who came "to seek and save the lost" ani theo out after the lame, the wounded, and the morally leprous

Haldane was sorely wounded, but he chose toHeaven, and those on earth representing Heaven's forgiving and saving mercy, he went out alone, in the spirit of pride and self-confidence, to deal with those ould round of self-interest How this laorks against such as have shown thean to receive abundant proof

He returned to the hotel whence he had just taken his s It was a house that cherished its character for quietness and eambler and euest On receiving a cold and peremptory refusal to his application, and in the presence of several others, Haldane stalked haughtily away; but there wasand faintness at his heart Such a public rebuff was a new and strange experience

With set teeth and lips coo to the very hotel where he had coht his way up He found the public rooers, and could not help discovering, as he entered, that he was the subject of their loud and unsavory conversation The "Evening Spy" had just been read, and all were very busy discussing the scandal As the knowledge of his presence and identity was speedily conveyed to one and another in loud whispers, the noisy tongues ceased, and the youngaive the idlers a defiant and careless glance as he walked up to the proprietor and asked for a room