[Footnote 1: 0ld English--simple.]

The cheerful sounds spread themselves through the ship like the flavor ofsome rare perfume, bringing softness of heart through a thousand tendermemories.

Anon, the hour of Sabbath morning worship drew on, and Elder Brewsterread from the New Testament the whole tale of the Nativity, and thengave a sort of Christmas homily from the words of St. Paul, in the eighthchapter of Romans, the sixth and seventh verses, which the Geneva versionthus renders: