You'll find we're a different sort here." The young minister preserved silence for a little, until it became apparent that the old trustee had had his say out.

Even then he raised his head slowly, and at last made answer in a hesitating and irresolute way.
"You have been very frank," he said.

"I am obliged to you.

A clergyman coming to a new charge cannot be better served than by having laid before him a clear statement of the views and--and spiritual tendencies--of his new flock, quite at the outset.

I feel it to be of especial value in this case, because I am young in years and in my ministry, and am conscious of a great weakness of the flesh.