9/25 But, to tell you the truth, I've lost all pleasure in Mr. What's the good of fine preaching, if a minister's private life isn't up to his sermon, I should like to know ?" Mrs.Bateson, however, had broad views on some matters. "I don't see much harm in reading the Commandments," she said. "It is the thin end of the wedge, Mrs.Bateson, and you ought to know it. Mark my words, it's forms and ceremonies such as this that tempts our young folks away from the chapels to the churches, like Miss Elisabeth and Master Christopher there. |