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Show Somber Christianity. The Auld Licht kirk when Dr. Chal. mers visited it was a terribly bare little building. The elders were a grim set They kept their bonnets on their heads till the minister entered, and they had each a large stick in his hand, which they used for "chappin" their noses through all the service. The minister wore no gown or bands. He gave a very long sermon full of sound divinity, but without the smallest practical application ap-plication and without a vestige of feeling. feel-ing. At length Dr. Chalmers got out, the dismal worship being ended, and his word was, "If these people ever get to heaven, they will live on the north 6ide of it. " San Francisco Argonaut. |