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"And now," she said in conclusion, "do we represent Christ, or are we so leavened by the world that it e us?"

The minister shaded his pained and troubled face with his hand

"We represent the world," said the church officer emphatically; "I have had atiradually and so properly, as it were, that I could find no one thing upon which I could lay ainst it Of course, if I had heard the sextonto enter the house of God as wasman you mention I should have interfered And yet the question is one of great difficulty Can such diverse classes round?"

"My dear sir," said Mrs Arnot earnestly, "I do not think we, as a church, are called upon to adjust these diverse classes, and to settle, on the Sabbath, nice social distinctions The Head of the Church said, 'Whosoever will, let hi to act in his name and by his authority, say, 'Whosoever is sufficiently respectable and well-dressed, let hier be a party to this perversion

"If ould preserve our right to be known as a Christian church we must say to all, to the poor, to the most sinful and debased, as well as to those who are noelcomed, 'Come'; and when they are within our walls they should beto an aristocratic clique, but rather to him as the friend of publicans and sinners Christ adjusted himself to the diverse classes Are we his superiors?"

"But, my dear madam, are there to be no social distinctions?"

"I a of social distinctions Birth, culture, and wealth will always, and very properly, too,people to our hoely consult our own tastes and preferences, and neither good sense nor Christian duty requires that there should be intimacy between those unfitted for it by education and character But a church is not our house, but God's house, and what right have we to stand in the door and turn away those whom he most cordially invites? Christ had his beloved disciple, and so we can have our beloved and congenial friends But there were none too low or lowly for him to help by direct personal effort, by synore his example"