At this time the senior deacon was taken dangerously ill, and Silas and William, with others of the brethren, took turns at night-watching.

As for arch-bishops, arch-deacons, deans, rural deans, and all the other worldly machinery which has been superadded to the church, the truth compels us to add, that our divine felt no especial reverence since he considered them as so much clerical surplusage, of very questionable authority, and of doubtful use.

"No, not Angles," said the pious and poetic deacon; "they are angels, with faces so angelic.

The uncle, however, never noted for much liberality either of brain or pocket, having taken to himself a wife and gotten to himself a boy, was unable to see the necessity of giving the orphan a college education, and pitilessly bound him to a worthy deacon of the church, as an apprentice to the highly respectable, but rarely famous, trade of cabinet-making.

"When the pope reaches the altar (of the Capella Paolina), the first cardinal deacon receives from his hands the blessed sacrament, and, preceded by torches, carries it to the upper part of the macchina; M. Sagrista places it within the urn commonly called the sepulchre, where it is incensed by the Pope....

Does he belong on Oyster Pond?" "He comes from somewhere east," answered the deacon, careful not to let the doctor know the place whence the stranger had come, though to little purpose, as will presently be seen.

Men were so scarce that the credulous sisters and charitable deacons voted to accept his tales as true and receive him once more into the fold.

The frightened servants recovered themselves, and moved about with the orderly obedience they ordinarily showed; and the deacon, above all anxious to cover his negligence, began intoning the liturgy, lending an atmosphere of solemnity to the whole room.

He conscientiously believed that he, himself, a regularly ordained presbyter, would be more likely to succeed in the undertaking before him, than a mere deacon; were a bishop present, he would cheerfully have submitted to his superior claims to sanctity and success.

It is probable the deacon at length felt the justice of this remark; for he sent to Riverhead for a lawyer, and made a will that would have stood even the petulant and envious justice of the present day; a justice that inclines to divide a man's estate infinitesimally, lest some heir become a little richer than his neighbours.

The present membership is about one hundred and twenty, nearly all women,scarcely enough men to provide the requisite deacons for each family.

A flight of stairs is all that's left Between him and despair; He springs to gain the top, and falls, A sober deacon, there.

But the good minister had smoothed matters over: had explained that allowances were to be made for those who had been long sitting without the gate of Zion,that, no doubt, a part of the curse which descended to the children of Ham consisted in "having the understanding darkened," as well as the skin,and so had brought his suspicious senior deacon to tolerate old Sophy as one of the communion of fellow-sinners.

With his remembrance of the grim deacon he had doubts as to the melodiousness of his utterance.

I won't go near her agin 'bout this bisness, that's certain;" and the remorse-stricken, but artful deacon hastened to his brother deacon's house to tell him that it was "all settled with Mis' Kinney 'bout the sermon,

The auxiliary bishop said mass, and his attendant deacons were perspiring under the traditional mantles and chasubles covered with beautiful raised embroidery in high and splendid relief, as stiff and uncomfortable as ancient armour.

"Sure enough," he muttered, in a low tone, though loud enough to be heard by the keenly attentive deacon; "here it isa chart of the West Indies, and of all the keys!"