As she stepped into the aisle her enemy gave her a parting salute: "Sneaking off before the collection, too! You'd better spend less for breastpins and give more to the poor heathen if you don't want to ketch it hereafter!" Then she began to fan herself furiously, and as Mrs.Whistler emerged from the front door and things became calmer the doctor resumed the story of the Flood.

But Mrs.Whistler has given up her pew and gone over to the Presbyterians, and there are rumors that Mrs.Moody is going to secede also because Elder McGinn insists that she shall leave her dog at home.
* * * * * The Dorcas and missionary societies of the church are particularly active, but they were somewhat discouraged a year or two ago by certain unforeseen occurrences.

The ladies of the Dorcas Society made up a large quantity of shirts, trousers and socks, and boxed them up and sent them to a missionary station on the west coast of Africa.
A man named Ridley went out with the boxes and stayed in Africa for several months.

When he returned, the Dorcas Society, of course, was anxious to hear how its donation was received, and Ridley one evening met the members and told them about it in a little speech.

He said, "Well, you know, we got the clothes out there all right, and after a while we distributed them among some of the natives in the neighborhood.