over the report he had been able to make of the Easter vestry meeting which revealed an extraordinary improvement in the churches 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 temptation to do so during the first lesson) and enlarging on every item. Aunty was very grieved that the subject should have been delivered from the pulpit as a sermon with a Biblical text as a title and so was I especially after the 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 honor and his generosity beyond words when he gave two nights proceeds at the picture show to the coffers of the church. Mrs. Jesse Thompson, we were led to believe, was a saint (I suppose in disguise) and 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 noble band of maidens the "Willing Workers" which provided the "caskets" for the choir. Dr. Cook and Mr. Hobbes deserved our deepest gratitude for the manner in which they had conducted themselves as wardens. Poor Mr. Hobbes hung his head in

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