“No, sir! no, sir!” pursued Gerrish; “I will not submit to your interruptions. I have the floor, and I intend to keep it. I intend to challenge a full and fearless scrutiny of my motives in this matter, and I intend to probe those motives in others. Why do we find, sir, on the one side of this question as its most active exponent a man outside of the church in organising a force within this society to antagonise the most cherished convictions of that church? We do not asperse his motives; but we ask if these motives coincide with the relations which a Christian minister should sustain to his flock as expressed in the resolution which I have had the privilege to offer, more in sorrow than in anger.” Putney made some starts to rise, but quelled himself, and finally sank back with an air of ironical patience. Gerrish's personalities had turned public sentiment in his favour. Colonel Marvin came over to Putney's pew and shook hands with him before sitting down by his side. He began to talk with him in whisper while Gerrish went on-- “But on the other hand, sir, what do we see? I will not allude to myself in this connection, but I am well aware, sir, that I represent a large and growing majority of this church in the stand I have taken. We are tired, sir--and I say it to you openly, sir, what has been bruited about in secret long enough--of having what I may call a one-sided gospel preached in this church and from this pulpit. We enter our protest against the neglect of very essential elements of Christianity--not to say the essential--the representation of Christ as--a--a spirit as well as a life. Understand me, sir, we do not object, neither I nor any of those who agree with me, to the preaching of Christ as a life. That is all very well in its place, and it is the wish of every true Christian to conform and adapt his own life as far as--as circumstances will permit of. But when I come to this sanctuary, and _they_ come, Sabbath after Sabbath, and hear nothing said of my Redeemer as a--means of salvation, and nothing of Him crucified; and when I find the precious promises of the gospel ignored and neglected continually and--and all the time, and each discourse from yonder pulpit filled up with generalities--glittering generalities, as has been well said by another--in relation to and connection with mere conduct, I am disappointed, sir, and dissatisfied, and I feel to protest against that line of--of preaching. During the last six months, Sabbath after Sabbath, I have listened in vain for the ministrations of the plain gospel and the tenets under which we have been blessed as a church and as--a--people. Instead of this I have heard, as I have said--and I repeat it without fear of contradiction--nothing but one-idea appeals and mere moralisings upon duty to others, which a child and the veriest tyro could not fail therein; and I have culminated--or rather it has been culminated to me--in a covert attack