`` You 've missed my whole first head , Sara , '' he said . `` that is n't fair , when you 're to be one of the judges . I think I ought to preach it over again for you . '' `` That was really done once . I know a story about it , '' said the Story Girl . `` Who 's interrupting now ? '' aid Dan slyly . `` Never mind , tell us the story , '' said the preacher himself , eagerly leaning over the pulpit . `` It was Mr. Scott who did it , '' said the Story Girl . `` He was preaching somewhere in Nova Scotia , and when he was more than half way through his sermon -- and you know sermons were VERY long in those days -- a man walked in . Mr. Scott stopped until he had taken his seat . Then he said , ` My friend , you are very late for this service . I hope you wo n't be late for heaven . The congregation will excuse me if I recapitulate the sermon for our friend 's benefit . ' And then he just preached the sermon over again from the beginning . It is said that that particular man was never known to be late for church again . '' `` It served him right , '' said Dan , `` but it was pretty hard lines on the rest of the congregation . '' `` Now , let 's be quiet so Peter can go on with his sermon , '' said Cecily . Peter squared his shoulders and took hold of the edge of the pulpit . Never a thump had he thumped , but I realized that his way of leaning forward and fixing this one or that one of his hearers with his eye was much more effective .
`` I 've come now to the second head XXXXX my sermon -- what the bad place is like . ''
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