Old Parson Buzzell gave out his text from the high
pulpit: Mark XIII, 37, 'AND WHAT I SAY UNTO YOU I SAY UNTO ALL,
WATCH!' Just here Cochrane stepped in at the open door of the
church and heard the warning, meant, he knew, for himself, and
seizing the moment of silence following the reading of the text,
he cried in his splendid sonorous voice, without so much as
stirring from his place within the door-frame: "'Behold I stand
at the door and knock. If any man hear my voice I will come in to
him and will sup with him,--I come to preach the everlasting
gospel to every one that heareth, and all that I want here is my
bigness on the floor.'"
"I cannot find," continued Ivory on another page, "that my father
or mother ever engaged in any of the foolish and childish
practices which disgraced the meetings of some of Cochrane's most
fanatical followers and converts. By my mother's conversations
(some of which I have repeated to you, but which may be full of
errors, because of her confusion of mind), I believe she must
have had a difference of opinion with my father on some of these
views, but I have no means of knowing this to a certainty; nor do
I know that the question of choosing spiritual consorts' ever
came between or divided them.
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