It was a happy cover for those who,
cultivating a human appetite, and conscious of a human weakness, were
solicitous, in respecting and providing for these, not to offend the
Creator in the presence of his creatures.
The woodman, as one of this class, was full of glee, and promised Ralph
an intellectual treat; for Parson Witter, the preacher in reference, had
more than once, as he was pleased to acknowledge and phrase it, won his
ears, and softened and delighted his heart. He was popular in the
village and its neighborhood, and where regular pastor was none, he
might be considered to have made the strongest impression upon his
almost primitive and certainly only in part civilized hearers. His
merits of mind were held of rather an elevated order, and in standard
far over topping the current run of his fellow-laborers in the same
vineyard; while his own example was admitted, on all hands, to keep pace
evenly with the precepts which he taught, and to be not unworthy of the
faith which he professed.
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