CHAPTER XX.
The revival into which were merged the special meetings at Dr.Guide's church continued so long that religion became absolutely and enthrallingly fashionable in Bruceton.

Many drinking men ceased to frequent the bar-room of the town, some old family feuds came to an end, and several couples who should have been married long before were joined in the holy bonds of wedlock.
Nevertheless, the oldest inhabitants agreed that never before had life in Bruceton been so pleasant.

Everybody was on good terms with everybody else, and no one, no matter how poor or common, lacked pleasant greetings on the street from acquaintances of high degree.
There had been some wonderful conversions during the meetings; hard-swearing, hard-drinking men had abandoned their evil ways, and were apparently as willing and anxious as any one else to be informed as to how to conform their lives to the professions which they had made.

All the other churches sympathized with the efforts which Dr.
Guide's flock had been making, for they themselves had been affected to their visible benefit.
Dr.Guide himself became one of the humblest of the humble.

Always a man of irreproachable life and warm heart, it never had occurred to him that anything could be lacking in his church methods.