`` We liked the sermon very much , '' declared Anne boldly . `` And I thought the Methodist minster 's prayer was one of the most beautiful I ever heard . '' `` Oh , I 've no doubt he can pray . I never heard anyone make more beautiful prayers than old Simon Bentley , who was always drunk , or hoping to be , and the drunker he was the better he prayed . '' `` The Methodist minister is very fine looking , '' said Anne , for the benefit of the office door . `` Yes , he 's quite ornamental , '' agreed Miss Cornelia . `` Oh , and VERY ladylike . And he thinks that every girl who looks at him falls in love with him -- as if a Methodist minister , wandering about like any Jew , was such a prize ! If you and the young doctor take MY advice , you wo n't have much to do with the Methodists . My motto is -- if you ARE a Presbyterian , BE a Presbyterian . '' `` Do n't you think that Methodists go to heaven as well as Presbyterians ? '' asked Anne smilelessly . `` That is n't for US to decide . It 's in higher hands than ours , '' said Miss Cornelia solemnly . `` But I ai n't going to associate with them on earth whatever I may have to do in heaven . THIS Methodist minister is n't married . The last one they had was , and his wife was the silliest , flightiest little thing I ever saw . I told her husband once that he should have waited till she was grown up before he married her . He said he wanted to have the training of her . Was n't that like a man ? ''
`` It 's rather hard to decide just when people ARE grown up , '' laughed XXXXX .
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