"No, it isn't," replied Mr. Stott quite testily; "but a man can do a great deal of trying without succeeding, and without finding what is the proper thing to do. If we always knew just what was right, we should never get into trouble." "I should like to ask the gentleman if Christ, the apostles, and prophets never got into trouble?" said Mr. Alleman. "I suppose they did," replied Mr. Stott, in visible embarrassment; "but--but that was divinely ordained for the benefit of sinful man." "I should like also to ask if the gentleman considers the servant above his master, and free from responsibility for his conduct?" "No, of course not," said Mr. Stott, "but----" Mr. Stott's expression remained unfinished for so long a time that Mr. Buffle took pity upon him, and remarked: "It seems to me that unless hungering and thirsting after righteousness is a special virtue, it would not have been brought into this small group of qualities for which special blessings are promised. If it is of so much consequence, we ought, in gratitude to God, to be anxious to learn just what righteousness is. What we are to get for practicing it isn't of so much consequence. And as there aren't many of us who have had so much reason to study the meaning of the word as our friend Judge Cottaway has, I think the class will be willing to waive the regular order of answering for once, and hear from the Judge his opinion of this important word." Every one looked at the Judge, and Deacon Bates remarked that he would assume that Mr. Buffle expressed the sentiments of every one.