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50 cents afterwards aisles audience Bible BOYD SMITH carpet-covered lounge ceased chancel was empty chimes rang choir Christ church officer cold Collaborated with HERBERT Dobson's boy ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS eyes fashion fell fill the pulpit galleries God the Father hands I commit haughty under lip heart HERBERT D holy honor hush inner light invited to supply kneeling people lifted landlady put lectern lifted their wet looked Lord lost his position melted messenger morning's nary night old clergyman ordi overcoat paper parish pastor Peek's pile of sermons poor prayers preach preacher stood preacher's manner rector of Saint replied sacred desk Saint Agatha's took sexton shabby woman shame sick snow soprano sore throat soul spoke Square 16mo Stories storm stranger swam Sunday morning SUPPLY AT SAINT SUPPLY AT ST thin things thought UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN vestry vestryman vestryman's wife voice wardens whispered widow Peek words
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Page 34 - When the singing ceased, he spoke as if he talked right on ; he read no prayers ; he turned to no ritual ; he did not even use the great Bible of Saint Agatha's — but only spoke in a quiet way, like a man who continues a thought begun : " For the Lord," he said,
Page 26 - Christian preacher to plead his cause with as much ardor as the reformer, the philanthropist, the politician, or the devotee of a mystical and fashionable cult.