Show CONTINUED from irom T wo t ii br nr laues TAMES CLARK clare i when the circle convened on the thursday following 0 mr Wake fields debut sophronia and i diana dlana met at each other otheo othen t w with ith 1 a choir idi idl which contrasted I 1 singularly with the heat in which they had parted on the prece proceeding eding sunday they scarcely spoke to each bac other during tig tb axy wole 01 day bd but bad had a good deal to say against each other shortly after the scraps had llad been col lecter and things made tidy the gentlemen began to make their appearance aad among mong a others mr wakefield escorted c by deacon latter performed the ceremony of introduction and soon the young clergyman found fondd himself on terms of easy familiarity with the bulk buik of his female parishioners he thought himself in a fair way of spending 0 an agreeable 0 eT ening evening 0 he was no mean conversationalist and greatly enjoyed j 0 the society of ladies of af a 11 lively ve ly hild V pleas 1 aritt urn and walid larid not too learned but if he had counted on any tiny such levity as frivolous frivol ous ons recreation he be was not long in discovering that there were others who I 1 meant business he ile was painfully convinced of this when seated between miss headset and miss spanker Sp ankem he found himself flanked on the right by doddridge Dodd ridges rise and progress and baxters bail ball and on the left by but Bat butlers lers analogy 11 and kaleys evidences Is mr wakefield from the left dont you think bishop butler has triumphantly confuted the materialistic argument against the immortality of the soul by suggesting 0 that it may be one of the ultimate particles of matter maiter and therefore indissoluble by death whatever but whatever the party interrogated was going to ob observe serie alwa was c mr wakefield from the right did it never occur to you as a pleasant reflection that the final doom of the ed who have been guilty of the sin of rejecting jec ting cairl mil mii beniach UC h more terrible than the fa faue faie te of t those who sho went to their account before that admiral adu ble treatise was written really I 1 cannot still from the right of course you cannot nobody can avoid a feeling of sa satisfaction at the though thought t left which do you consider the more tenable position i that paley that the tha evidences of ret rev revealed caled reli rell religion g lou iou are perfectly conclusive or that of bishop butler that they have been purposely left ob secure in order to t try ry the christians faith the necessity of venturing an opinion on this knotty polut point was kindly removed by a tirade from the right bight on the subject of novels and novel reading in theo thet our umee uree q sa of which cooper was set down as an infidel because he makes sax say in the pioneers he never knowd preaching to come into a settlement but it made game and raised the price 0 of f gunpowder 1 I while the taste of those who preferred the productions of the author of waverly to the rise and progress of religion in the soul was scathingly angly criticised criticized left jenn V 1 finally dropped into poetry quoting extensively from I with which her parsing exercises had rendered her somewhat familiar right on the other hand band betook retook ile ife ner ri self to psalmody and returned a broadside from dr watts 1 1 t not more devoutly did wellington watch in hand pray far night or general blucher than the besieged and tackle tackie be tackled 4 clergyman longed for foi foj bao igi ment and when it came and be he once more breathed freely he found himself unconsciously querying whether alf lif if Job jol instead of or be being ing delivered clai over oven to th tender mercies of satan had been overwhelmed b by y an avalanche of polemical divinity in crinoline he would fould not have bave deserved greater credit for fieldi holding noy nop j fast to io his inte grety grely y As for the theolo theological ical amazons they withdrew from the field each convinced that she had hud made a conquest of tiie tile parson at least to her opinions although lie he had not been permitted to complete a a single sentence at s how singularly the tae odds and ends enos of facts and fancy are patched to together ether in our dreams if they are not udder under the influence of some puck or robin goodfellow they are often fantastic enough at least to put philosophy j to vr her tr trumps u in ps was it rot pot stran strange gt for foe instance that the chastened chasteney chast ened imagination of the staid sophronia amid the visions of the night should have transported her to the bedside bed side of the continued on page 86 continued froni from phage 51 31 51 incorrigible sniffles Spiff aes les s and nus pus us t I 1 as ass eliad had haq 1 brought him by dint of herculean exertions vit VII to the point polut of insa I 1 that the penitent sauld elve nave fumed form of jt the pastor aad 4 berve n aly poured forth nuon neon aton x uon ato bession of a wholly different and antich more more tender character whereupon she awoke just soon enough to prevent her from falling ino his arms in a delicious 4 1 1 swoon dinh dint biaua tog top vere mere vero Is no wonder tir air ful fui metamorphosis the difference being that it was a delinquent archin iii lii wh choby oby PY some devilish slight 0 pas aas was instantaneously converted into a miniature min iture copy of mr nir 19 ed barely idt iii ima 0 a o sem sew belze and rapturously re 1 kiss kisst esst deply we e hau apil da wust J user ater aiNd Wed to box his ears As for the gentleman himself if he dreamt at all it was of undergoing dergo der going ilig his final examination afresh in which lie he baag badgered 11 red by two Q old Doc doctors tors tots 0 of divinity in lemale e lu al attire under whose ruthless catechi sings jonathan edwards himself could not have escaped a miserable failure had mr kr wakefield been a much duller man reilly y was wabe the could 0 U 1 l 4 y have readied 1 ed the dlo dio if mouth 1 uth nth of his ministry without perceiving the interest he had awakened in at least two of the members of his flock when miss headset applied which was almost daily tor lor the explanation of s some t 0 ine lne difficult passage L of scripture or sought advice as to the best method of dealing with soine some obstinate convalescent who with the prospect of returning health seemed perversely disposed to emerge from tile the state of wholesome gloom to which ilg ber her visitations had happily reduced reduced him tender tenderness i ua in her hei tone and an earnestness in her ma manner mariner riner tiner indicative of that zeal which edeth from the heart TO BE CONTINUED I 1 |