festival; and so it was, for it was Sunday. All the bells were

ringing, and all the people went to church, looking cheerful, and

dressed in their best clothes. There was a look of cheerfulness on

everything. The day was so warm and beautiful that one might well have

said: "God's kindness to us men is beyond all limits." But inside

the church the pastor stood in the pulpit, and spoke very loudly and

angrily. He said that all men were wicked, and God would punish them

for their sins, and that the wicked, when they died, would be cast