over the report he had been able to make of the Easter vestry meeting which revealed an extraordinary improvement in the cburches finances that he could not refrain from reading his report from the pulpit (I had been figuring on reading it during the sermon and for that reason had resisted the temtation to do so during the first kesson) and em=nlarging on every item. Aunty was very grieved that the subject shoulsd ave been delivered from the pulpit as a sermon with a Biblical text as a title and so was I especially after thew first half hour of it, for it seemed as if he couldn't come to a full stop. He commended the congregation for their loyalty to the church and their liberality in paying up. He held up John Walkers name as one worthy of the greatest homor and his generosity beyond words when he gave two nights proceeds at the oicture show to the coffers of the church. mrs. Jesse Thompson, we were led to believe, was a saint (I suppos ein disgi=uise) amd I expect to see her next Sunday with a made-to-order halo from Eaton's, because she was the organizer and is the leader of that nible band of maidens "Willin=g Workers" which provided the "caskets" for the choir. Dr. Cook and Mr. Hobbes deserved our deepest gratitide for the manner in which they had conducted themselves as wardens. Poor Mr. Hobbes hng hishead in