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Si;—As a "mixed metaphor," not from the rostrum, but from

the pulpit, I think the following can hardly be beaten. A preacher, who was rebuking his flock for their apathy, declared that but a spark of grace remained to show that they were alive at ail. Then, in a parenthesis : "Lord, water that spark" 1-1 am, Sir, &c., C. M. H.