pointed by God for his worship. It's your duty to go there as often as you can. If you want comfort, you must seek it in the path of duty'—an' a deal more he said, but I cannot remember all his fine words. However, it all came to this, that I was to come to church as oft as ever I could, and bring my prayer-book with me, an' read up all the sponsers after th' clerk, an' stand an' kneel an' sit an do—all as I should, an' take the Lord's supper at every opportunity, an' hearken his sermons an' Maister Bligh's, an' it 'ud be all right: if I went on doing my duty, I should get a blessing at last."
"'But if you get no comfort that way,' says he, 'it's all up.'"
"'Then sir,' says I, 'should you think I'm a reprobate?'
"'Why,' says he—he says 'if you do your best to get to Heaven and can't manage it, you must be one of those that seek to enter in at the strait gate and shall not be able.'
"An' then he asked me if I'd seen any of the ladies o' th' Hall about that mornin'; so I telled him where I'd seen the young Misses go on th' moss-lane;—an' he kicked my poor cat right across th' floor, an' went off after 'em
