`` I have just finished reading a piece in the Enterprise which told of a couple being married in an aeroplane . Do you think it would be legal , doctor dear ? '' she inquired anxiously . `` I think so , '' said the doctor gravely . `` Well , '' said Susan dubiously , `` it seems to me that a wedding is too solemn for anything so giddy as an aeroplane . But nothing is the same as it used to be . Well , it is half an hour yet before prayer-meeting time , so I am going around to the kitchen garden to have a little evening hate with the weeds . But all the time I am strafing them I will be thinking about this new worry in the Trentino . I do not like this Austrian caper , Mrs. Dr. dear . '' `` Nor I , '' said Mrs. Blythe ruefully . `` All the forenoon I preserved rhubarb with my hands and waited for the war news with my soul . When it came I shrivelled . Well , I suppose I must go and get ready for the prayer-meeting , too . '' Every village has its own little unwritten history , handed down from lip to lip through the generations , of tragic , comic , and dramatic events . They are told at weddings and festivals , and rehearsed around winter firesides . And in these oral annals of Glen St. Mary the tale of the union prayer-meeting held that night in the Methodist Church was destined to fill an imperishable place . The union prayer-meeting was Mr. Arnold 's idea . 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 XXXXX be too well attended , but on this particular evening the Methodist Church was crowded .
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