He said a traveller whom he met on the cars admitted that we all desired heaven, but believed that there were as many ways to it as to Boston.

Mr.F.said that God had prepared but one way, just as the government in those countries of the Old World whose cities were upon almost inaccessible pinnacles had prepared one way of approach.

(It occurred to me that if those governments possessed godlike powers, they would have made a great many ways.) "Mr.F.was very severe upon those who expect to be saved by their own deserts.

He said, 'You tender a farthing, when you owe a million.' I could not see what they owed at all! At this point he might well have given some attention to 'good works;' and if he must mention 'debt,' he might well remind them that they sat in an unpaid-for church! "It was plain that he relied upon his anecdotes for the hold upon his audience, and the anecdotes were attached to the main discourse by a very slender thread of connection.

I felt really sad to know that not a listener would lead a better life for that sermon--no man or woman went out cheered, or comforted, or stimulated.
"On the whole, it is strange that people who go to church are no worse than they are! "Sept.