I assured her, that I ever had respected the clergy in a body; and some individuals of them (her Dr. Lewen for one) highly: and that were not going to church an act of religion, I thought it

No one could deny that on Sundays and holidays when the people went to church the change had given it a most cheerful and pleasant appearance.

Usually marriage and churching dues went to minister and clerk (see tariffs, p. 221 supra).

One beautiful Sabbath morning in July, their mother dressed them tidily in their best frocks, and tying on their snow-white sun-bonnets, she sent them to church nearly an hour before she started with their father, that they might walk leisurely, and have opportunity to get rested before the commencement of services.

They brought her to church with them one or two mornings, but it knocked her up to walk so early.

The application of the key of the church door is traditionary in this absurd dilemma; and in country churches a straw twisted into a circle has been known to supply the place of the orthodox hoop of gold!

He distributed altogether in charity and churches four hundred thousand of those golden coins which were invented by Florence and named florins after hera sum equal to a million pounds of to-day.