TALKS WITH MOLLY. CHAPTER I. Before the Mission. "WELL, Molly, what's all this about the Mission? They talk of going ten days together to the meetings; wet or fine, hail, rain, or shine; afternoon and night. And they say it is not to hear our Parson, but strangers; such as those they used to call Evangelists in my mother's time; and we are to listen to them talking and preaching to us." "To be sure, Jenny, and I hope you will go as often as you can." "Why, you see, I can scarce for very shame show myself, after turning my back so long on the old Church, where father and mother bent their knees so reg'lar like each Sabbath." "Stop, Jenny! that's the very object of the Mission next week, to stir us up if we have B |