He prayed them, therefore, to defer the meeting for two days, when he would willingly give them his views upon the subject, and his learned brother would also address them.

He proposed that the party should be as small a one as that he saw before him, and that, after hearing him, they should, if possible, come to some arrangement upon a few, at least, of the points in dispute, so as to leave as small a number as might be open to for the public disputation which would follow.

The worshipful party appeared mightily taken with the idea, and, after an hour's prayer from the chairman, we separated.

I hardly slept all night for laughing, and I would give much to see the faces of that honorable council when they hear that they have been fooled." "You have both shown great wisdom, Jacob," Harry said, "and have behaved in a sore strait with much judgment and discretion.

It was lucky for you that your reverend friend did not, among his eight champions, think of inviting our little friend from London, for I fear that he would at once have denounced you as not being the divines whose credentials you presented." "I was afraid of that," Jacob said, "and therefore begged him specially, on this our first conference, to have only ministers of his own circle present.