A Vain Sister

Southland Times, Issue 9090, 14 December 1885, Page 3

A Vain Sister

The Rev. E. G. Gange, speaking at Bristol, ■aid be believed in careful pieparation at home of sermons for the Sunday, instead of In cirlylcareerlie was)iearnestly requested a deacon to r visit a member of the congre- > Mtion who wasTeryiill, and it was.soggested tfcat he should call at 11 o'clock in the morn:fsfkas. IBe f did i6, and- 'onnd the 1 poor^woman better, but greatly put out at his Wtf^ sne had hertair in curl papers, her tlSvei tucked up to her ilbows^atMi was do* 6it of house-sweepiniE and dusting. He ■ ' tteggedherndt to mind himYar he was < us,ed to that sort of thing,* He would have a short ynd long abont anything. He selected ftchair and knelt down {she selected another, and he began the prayer. ,; He heard the door opened once; he heard it, opened a second " ««E prayer on. the ". '■. poor wbjian^beha^ and oh looking round--fol * penecfc transformation^ While he was TOMingslwiid slippedii]? tp her bedroom, w*r.hedher hands; and lacfi curled her hair, cT^eSi iiw attire-and^here she was in ber ' Veryte, silk, fittingly iprepared to > receive companyV'whae be had been praying among theemp^chairi; />v ; ;

£ speWiug tne^riiiterfin f flanta^baw, Oal;firites of a little boy 4 years old in that lovely -rtlleywho w«s ovCTheardtowa^that; '■ r ' : --lo^jranchV-V" ; - : -'^ -v ; ••>. ' , i^' :^ :: ' ■^;/'i'\ .i „ has just decided that a man is in dWbonncttb teUhis wife where he spends his evenufcs when:? he is^ away from -ipme. Thia decision is i right fe a certain extent, , but iaDpoee the man -&^skaiifc;.£ -■?%;&£! stands but amidst the mass of trashy specifics : J :^ind d^!beribM*i»c*^ '" terated^ ratable preparation