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"That settles the question, Mrs Arnot," said Haldane, with a troubled smile "I would try to preach in Choctaw, if you requested it, and I fear all that I can say 'out o' my own head,' as Mr Growther would put it, will be worse than Choctaw But I can at least read to the prisoners; that is," he added, with downcast eyes and a flush of his old shame, "if they will listen to enerous syreatly I am despised, even by my own class"

"Please remember that I am of your class now, for you are of the household of faith I knohat you lad that you are so diffident and so little inclined to ask on the ground of your Christian profession that the past be overlooked If there is one thing that disgusts ion a stepping-stone to earthly objects and theupon others a familiarity or a relationship that is offensive to the a profession of faith that is put to such low uses I know that you have special reason for humility, but you must not let it develop into timidity All I ask is that you read to such poor creatures in the prison as will listen to you a chapter in the Bible, and explain it as well as you can, and then read so else that you think will interest them"

Haldane made the attempt, and met, at first, as he feared, with but indifferent success Even criuise of a religious teacher But his , and the spirit "I am better than thou" was so conspicuously absent, that a feere disarmed, and partly out of curiosity, and partly to kill the tiathered at his invitation He sat down a them as if one of them, and in a voice that treospels Since he "put on no airs," as they said, one and another drew near until all the in finished the chapter, Haldane closed the Bible and said: "I do not feel competent to explain this chapter Perhaps many of you understand it better than I do I did not even feel that I orthy to come here and read the chapter to you, but the Christian lady who visited you last Sunday askedfor her She visited h her influence I a to be a better et down under men's feet, and are sent to places like these, we lose heart and hope; we feel that there is no chance for us to get up again, we are teh the kindness and ood lady, Mrs Arnot, I learned of a kindness and reater even than hers The world may hate us, scorn us, and even trample us down, and if ill be honest with ourselves we iven it some reason to do all this--at least I feel that I have--but the world can't keep us down, and what is far worse than the world, the evil in our own hearts can't keep us down, if we ask Jesus Christ to help us up I a this out by experience, and so know the truth of what I a, merciful One, this Friend of publicans and sinners, and if you would like me to come here Sunday afternoons and read about hiladly, but I don't wish to force myself upon you if I'm not wanted"