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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: course, and therefore full of pious emulation. The idea of
securing an American preacher for an August Sabbath seemed to fall
upon them simultaneously, and to offer the prospect of novelty
without too much danger. The brethren of the U. P. congregation,
being a trifle more gleg than the others, arrived first at the inn,
and secured the promise of a morning sermon from Chancellor Howard
Crosby. The session of the Free Kirk came in a body a little
later, and to them my father pledged himself for the evening sermon.
The senior elder of the Established Kirk, a snuff-taking man and
very deliberate, was the last to appear, and to his request for an
afternoon sermon there was nothing left to offer but the services
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