'And now,' you will read in one place, 'it was a day gloomy and dark, a day of clouds and thick darkness with Mansoul.

Well, when the Sabbath-day was come he took for his text that in the prophet Jonah, "They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy." And then there was such power and authority in that sermon, and such dejection seen in the countenances of the people that day that the like had seldom been heard or seen.

The people, when the sermon was done, were scarce able to go to their homes, or to betake themselves to their employments the whole week after.

They were so sermon-smitten that they knew not what to do.

For not only did their preacher show to Mansoul its sin, but he did tremble before them under the sense of his own, still crying out as he preached, Unhappy man that I am! that I, a preacher, should have lived so senselessly and so sottishly in my parish, and be one of the foremost in its transgressions! With these things he also charged all the lords and gentry of Mansoul to the almost distracting of them.' It was Sabbaths like that that made the people of Mansoul call their minister a seer.
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