THE COUNTRY.


candidly, and with simple curiosity, that he had
thought that "de sisters was n't so pious in
dere lives after one of dese yere times, do' he
could n't just say why it was; maybe dey was
tired!" And judging from the exhausted ap-
pearance of both men and women after such
a meeting, the reaction from spiritual intoxica-
tion into positive immorality is not remarkable;
but it gives the observer a curious sensation of
distinguishing between religion and morals.










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