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THE LARGEST LIBERTY.
“Now go to meeting, dear,” said Mrs. Partington, as
Isaac stood smoothing his hair preparatory to going out
on Sunday. He looked down at his new shoes, and a
thought of the green fields made him sigh. A fishing-line
hung out of one pocket, which Mrs. Partington
did n't see.
“Where shall I go to?” asked Ike.
Since the old lady had given up her seat in the Old
North church, she had no stated place of worship.
“Go,” replied she sublimely, as she pulled down his
jacket behind, “go anywheres where the gospel is dispensed
with.”
Such liberality is rare. Bigotry finds no place in her
composition, and the truth, in her view, throws its light
into every apartment of the Christian edifice, like an
oysterman's chandelier into his many booths. The simile
is not the very best, but the best to be had at present.
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