CHAPTER XXX.
BEHAVIOR AT CHURCH.
Around the door of country meeting-houses it has always been the custom for the people to gather before and after church for social intercourse and the shaking of hands.

Perhaps because we, ourselves, were born in the country and had never got over it, the custom pleases us.

In the cities we arrive the last moment before service and go away the first moment after.

We act as though the church were a rail-car, into which we go when the time for starting arrives, and we get out again as soon as the depot of the Doxology is reached.

We protest against this business way of doing things.