"  What  an  assistance  this  party  will  prove,"
said  Mary.  "  And  then  to  be  relieved  from  the
painful  necessity  of  bringing  our  affairs  before  our
people,  and  insisting  upon  the  prompt  payment  of
our  promised  support,  or  being  compelled  to  leave
just  as  we  have  begun  to  love  them.  This  kind
ness  will,  at  least,  enable  us  to  defer  the  evil  day,
and  to  settle  two  or  three  bills,  which  have  mor
tified  me  exceedingly."

"  Ah,    sister !    have    you    already    become    so


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acclimated  as  to  be   content  to    defer    the   evil
day?"

"No,  indeed!  anything  but  content;  but  is  it
not  best,  when  all  your  efforts  will  not  overcome  an
evil,  to  try  and  hope  that,  while  you  endeavor  to
endure  it  patiently,  something  more  potent  than
your  feeble  struggles  may  come  in  by  and  by,  and
remove  it  altogether.  I  hardly  dare  hope  it,  and
yet,  there  is  so  much  of  real  good  feeling,  so  much
heart  among  this  people,  that  they  only  need  some
shock  to  rouse  them  to  the  sense  of  their  duty,  and
that  once  done,  I  do  not  fear  their  settling  down
into  thoughtlessness  again."

"  Perhaps  the  only  thing  that  will  do  that,  may
be  the  loss  of  a  minister  whom  they  love  so  well,
as  I  have  not  a  doubt  they  do  brother  George."

"  That  would  be  as  painful  to  us  as  it  could  be
to  them,"  said  Mr.  Herbert ;  "  but  if  that  is  the
only  way,  then  there  is  this  comfort,  that  whoever
takes  my  place  will  be  benefited  by  their  wak
ing  up."

"I  doubt  it.  But  if  the  money  you  have
received  to-night  must  go  to  pay  debts,  which  their
remissness  has  compelled  you  to  contract,  when
these  provisions  are  exhausted,  will  the  influence


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