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THE PIONEERS.
"It is marvellous, how long the propensities of the savage continue, in that remarkable race," said the good divine; "but if he perseveres, as he has commenced, his triumph shall yet be complete. Remember me, my child, to lend him the homily 'against peril of idolatry,' at his next visit."
"Surely, father," cried the maiden, "you do not think him in danger of relapsing into the worship of his ancestors!"
"No, my child," returned the clergyman, laying his hand affectionately on her flaxen locks, and smiling, "his white blood would prevent it; but there is such a thing as the idolatry of our passions."
