Autour du plateau-table . tout droit, mais dans ce monde les choses sont très susceptibles au Togo de travers. Alors vous feriez mieux de prendre le train jusqu'thatstarts une heure plus tôt. Dans tout ce que nous sous-prendre laissez-nous laisser un peu de marge. Nous avons essayé, jok-ment, à persuader le capitaine Berry, quand CapeHatteras off, afin de descendre et d'obtenir son petit-déjeuner, whilewe prit sa place et vu le cours de l'thesteamer. Il a laissé entendre que nous étions exécuter-ning trop près de la barre pour permettre à un novice à l'homme-âge influence juste là. Il y a toujours à dangerin près d'une côte, que ce soit en bateau ou en plansand la morale. Ne pas calculer trop étroitement sur po

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Around the tea-table . straight, but in this world things are very apt togo crooked. So you had better take the train thatstarts an hour earlier. In everything we under-take let us leave a little margin. We tried, jok-ingly, to persuade Captain Berry, when off CapeHatteras, to go down and get his breakfast, whilewe took his place and watched the course of thesteamer. He intimated to us that we were run-ning too near the bar to allow a greenhorn to man-age matters just there. There is always dangerin sailing near a coast, whether in ship or in plansand morals. Do not calculate too closely on pos-sibilities. Better have room and time to spare.Do not take the last train. Not heeding thiscounsel makes bad work for this world and the THE MIDNICHT LECTURE. I I I next. There are many lines of communicationbetween earth and heaven. Men say they canstart at any time. After a while, in great excite-ment, they rush into the depot of mercy, and findthat the final opportunity has left, and, behold! itis the last train I. CHAPTER XVI. THE SEXTON. KING DAVID, it is evident, once thoughtsomething of becoming a church sexton, for he said, I had rather be a doorkeeper andso on. But he never carried out the plan, perhapsbecause he had not the qualification. It requiresmore talent in some respects to be sexton than tobe king. A sexton, like a poet, is born. A church, in order to peace and success, needs the right kindof man at the prow, and the right kind at thestern—that is, a good minister and a good sexton.So far as we have observed, there are four kindsof janitors. TJie Fidgety Sexton. He is never still. His being in any one placeproves to him that he ought to be in some other.In the most intense part of the service, every earalert to the truth, the minister at the very climaxof his subject, the fidgety official starts up theaisle. The whole congregation instantly turnfrom the consideration of judgment and eternityto see what the sexton wants. The minister looks, 112 THE SEX TOIV.

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