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Su her coachman, she told hi She dressed herself very plainly, and entered the church closely veiled Instead of going to her o, she asked the judicious and discrilance he pointed to one of the seats near the door, and turned his back upon her A richly dressed lady and gentle them up the aisle into Mrs Arnot's o, since it was known she did not occupy it in the evening A few decent, plain-looking women, evidently sent thither by the wealthy faly, and those who did not take seats near the entrance, as a matter of course, were motioned thither without ceree fa represented by one or two members or not at all But Mrs Arnot saw none of Haldane's class present--none who looked as if they were in danger, and needed a kind, strong, rescuing hand--none who looked hungry and athirst for truth because perishing for its lack In that elegant and eminently respectable place, upholstered and decorated with faultless taste, there was not a hint of publicans and sinners One ht suppose he was in the midst of the millennium, and that the classes to whohly converted that they did not even need to attend church There was not a suggestion of the fact that but a few blocks away enough to fill the e worse than heathen lives

The choir performed their part melodiously, and a master inof the ave to such of their employers as cared to be present every note as it ritten, in its full value As never before, it struck Mrs Arnot as a performance The service she had attended hitherto was partly the creation of her own earnest and devotional spirit To-night she was learning to know the service as it really existed

The minister was evidently a conscientiousdiscourse for his thin audience as thoroughly as he had hisserht of the text was exhaustively developed But Mrs Arnot was too far back to hear well The poor ed with the arid wastes of empty seats over which he must scatter the seeds of truth to no purpose He looked dihostly in the far-away pulpit, and in spite of herself his seran to have the aspect of a paid performance, the effect of which would scarcely beof the ithout The keenest theologian could not detect the deviation of a hair from the received orthodox views, and the majority present were evidently satisfied that his vieould be correct, for they did not give very close attention The few plain doained some physical preparation for the toils of the week, but their spiritual natures were as clearly dormant as their lumpish bodies