The young man was older than Ranald, but Ranald would have given a good deal for an opportunity to "take him with one hand." At this point Ranald's reflections were interrupted by Mrs.Murray rising to open the class.
"Will some one suggest a Psalm ?" she asked, her cheek, usually pale, showing a slight color.

It was always an ordeal for her to face her class, ever since the men had been allowed to come, and the first moments were full of trial to her.

Only her conscience and her fine courage kept her from turning back from this, her path of duty.
At once, from two or three came responses to her invitation, and a Psalm was chosen.
The singing was a distinct feature of the Bible class.

There was nothing like it, not only in the other services of the congregation, but in any congregation in the whole county.

The young people that formed that Bible class have long since grown into old men and women, but the echoes of that singing still reverberate through the chambers of their hearts when they stand up to sing certain tunes or certain Psalms.