After some talk Miss Mitchell said: "Oh, well, do as _I_ do--sit back folding your arms, and think of something pleasant!" "Sunday, Dec.

18, 1866.

We heard two sermons: the first in the afternoon, by Rev.Mr.A., Baptist, the second in the evening, by Rev.
Mr.B., Congregationalist.
"Rev.Mr.A.took a text from Deuteronomy, about 'Moses;' Rev.Mr.B.
took a text from Exodus, about 'Moses;' and I am told that the sermon on the preceding Sunday was about Moses.
"It seems to me strange that since we have the history of Christ in the New Testament, people continue to preach about Moses.
"Rev.Mr.A.was a man of about forty years of age.

He chanted rather than read a hymn.

He chanted a sermon.