present altogether his mind a flew back to his past life and the waste of time that had resulted from his not having been able to make up his mind which of the many fashions of art that were coming and going in change was the true point of departure for himself he had suffered from the modern malady of unlimited as much as any living man of his own age of his fellows in years and experiences who had never thought specially of the matter but had applied themselves to whatever form of art confronted them at the moment of their making a move were by this time acquiring renown as new lights while he was still unknown he wished that some accident could have hemmed in his eyes between inexorable and sped him on in a channel ever so worn thus balanced between believing and not believing in own future so delicately that a feather of opinion either was to the scene without by hearing the notes of a solemn familiar hymn rising in subdued from an valley below he listened more it was his old friend the new sabbath which he had never once heard since the days of childhood and whose existence much as it had then been to him he had till this moment quite forgotten where the new sabbath had kept itself all these years � why that sound and hearty melody had disappeared from all the parish churches and ease that he had been acquainted with during his to life and until his ways had become irregular and � he could not at first say but then he that the tune i to the old west gallery period of church music to the great and the rule of � that old time when the repetition of a word or of a verse was not considered a disgrace to an choir willing to be interested in anything which would keep him pf doors dismounted from the and descended the hill before him to learn whence the singing proceeded a chapter he found that it had its origin in a building standing alone in a field and though the evening was not yet dark without lights shone from the windows in a few moments stood before the edifice being just then en t with by reason of his recent occupation he could not help murmuring j a perhaps this exclamation being one rather out of date since the discovery that himself often nodded to an amazing extent would not have been indulged in by but for his condition of returned prodigal which caused professional opinions to advance themselves to his lips whenever occasion offered the building was in short a recently erected chapel of red brick with classic and the white regular joints of mortar could be seen its surface in from top to bottom the roof was of blue slate clean as a table and unbroken from to the windows were glazed with sheets of plate glass a temporary iron stove pipe passing out near one of these and running up to the height of the ridge where it was finished by a covering like a walking round to the end he perceived an white stone let into the wall just above the on which was inscribed in block letter george l erected � at th sole expense of john power esq m p the new sabbath still proceeded line by line with all the and that had of old the tune and the body of harmony that it implied a large congregation within to whom it was plainly as familiar as it had been to church of a past generation with a sense of at the of his once favourite air moved away and would have quite withdrawn from the field had he not at that moment observed two young men with of water coming up from a stream hard by and hastening with their burdens into the chapel by a side door almost as soon as they had entered they emerged again with empty and proceeded to the stream to fill them as before an operation which they repeated several times went forward to the stream and waited till the young men came out again you are carrying in a great deal of water he said as each dipped his one of the young men modestly replied yes we filled the this morning but it and requires a few more why do you do it there is to be a sir was not moment sufficiently interested to develop a further conversation and observing them in silence till they had again vanished into the building he went on his way reaching the brow of the hill he stopped and looked back the chapel was still in view and the shades of night having deepened the lights shone from the windows yet a i a more brightly than before a few steps further would hide them and the edifice and all that belonged to it from his sight possibly for ever there was something in the thought which led him to linger in a way he had not at all expected the chapel had neither beauty nor to recommend it the between the new of the place and the scenes of venerable which had occupied his daylight hours could not well be exceeded but as has been said was an instrument of no narrow he had a key for other touches tee even on such an excursion as this his mind was arrested by the intense and busy energy which must needs belong to an assembly that required such a glare of light to do its religion by in the heaving of that tune there was an earnestness which made him thoughtful r d the shine of those windows he had ugly reminded him of the shining of the good deed in a naughty world the chapel and its shabby plot of ground from 