He wants to be paid by material dollars, payable next month; you by spiritual dollars, payable when you die.

I don't see the great difference." "Only the slight difference between what is material and what is spiritual." "They seem to me, from all I can hear in pulpits, to be only two different sorts of pleasant things, and to be sought after, both alike, simply because they are pleasant.

Self-interest, if you will forgive me, seems to me the spring of both: only, to do you justice, you are a farther-sighted and more prudent man than the Yankee storekeeper; and having more exquisitely developed notions of what your true self-interest is, are content to wait a little longer than he." "You stab with a jest, Thurnall.

You little know how your words hit home." "Well, then, to turn from a matter of which I know nothing--I must keep you in, and give you parish business to do at home.

I am come to consult you as my spiritual pastor and master." Frank looked a little astonished.
"Don't be alarmed.