The county battalion , which had been training all winter in Charlottetown , was to leave shortly for overseas . The Four Winds Harbour boys belonging to it from the Glen and over-harbour and Harbour Head and Upper Glen were all home on their last leave , and Mr. Arnold thought , properly enough , that it would be a fitting thing to hold a union prayer-meeting for them before they went away . Mr. Meredith having agreed , the meeting was announced to be held in the Methodist Church . Glen prayer-meetings were not apt to be too well attended , but on this particular evening the Methodist Church was crowded . Everybody who could go was there . Even Miss Cornelia came -- and it was the first time in her life that Miss Cornelia had ever set foot inside a Methodist Church . It took no less than a world conflict to bring that about . `` I used to hate Methodists , '' said Miss Cornelia calmly , when her husband expressed surprise over her going , `` but I do n't hate them now . There is no sense in hating Methodists when there is a Kaiser or a Hindenburg in the world . '' So Miss Cornelia went . Norman Douglas and his wife went too . And Whiskers-on-the-moon strutted up the aisle to a front pew , as if he fully realized what a distinction he conferred upon the building . People were somewhat surprised that he should be there , since he usually avoided all assemblages connected in any way with the war . But Mr. Meredith had said that he hoped his session would be well represented , and Mr. Pryor had evidently taken the request to heart . He wore his best black suit and white tie , his thick , tight , iron-grey curls were neatly arranged , and his broad , red round face looked , as Susan most uncharitably thought , more `` sanctimonious '' than ever . `` The minute I saw that man coming into the Church , looking like that , I felt that mischief was brewing , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' she said afterwards . `` What form it would take I could not tell , but I knew from face of him that he had come there for no good . '' The prayer-meeting opened conventionally and continued quietly . Mr. Meredith spoke first with his usual eloquence and feeling . Mr. Arnold followed with an address which even Miss Cornelia had to confess was irreproachable in taste and subject-matter .
And then Mr. Arnold asked Mr. XXXXX to lead in prayer .
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