Sons of Temperance, or conform to some other requirement of fanaticism.
Thus, in the present case of uncle Jacob, Mr. Barker, the Methodist, and
Parson Grinoble, the Presbyterian, and Mr. Gulmore, another style of
Presbyterianism, all three vied to see who would _be hired_ to do the
last service to him whom, while alive, they all despised. Mr. Gulmore,
however, had the best luck, and accordingly mounted the pulpit to pass
sentence on the departed soul of uncle Jacob. He descanted for a
considerable time on the virtues of the deceased while young, told all
he knew of his religious experience, not forgetting the virtues of the
entire family, and what they had done for religion by circulation of
tracts, by subscription to Bible societies, by adopting and raising of
destitute orphans, and other good deeds, all tending to the honor of
Calvinism. "The only instance of any thing like want of belief that
happened for a hundred years in the family," said he, "was the seduction
of our brother to the ranks of Popery. His faith was weak, my friends,"
he continued; "but if he did not believe strongly, _we believed_, and
our faith saved him. His soul is in glory, I have no doubt. The faith of
his family and all our faith saved him. Glory be to the Lord. Amen."

The conclusion of this discourse was applied to the warning of the
faithful against the influence of the Papists; the necessity and
obligation incumbent on all to compel their Catholic servants to join
their prayer and other meetings; and, above all, to take care that all
Popish books and publications, should be excluded from their houses. "We
are fallen on dangerous times, my friends," he said; "and if the friends
of the Bible and free religion do not combine their efforts against the
common enemy, our institutions are doomed, and the glory of our country
is extinguished forever."

The reader is not to imagine that Mr. Gulmore and men of his class are