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who wished to know where the merchant’s money went, that it cost 
$30,000. 
CASE 3. 
(c) The Discrepancy.—B stated to C that at a religious service in 
a certain church all the men of the congregation were on the right side 
of the church and all the women on the left. D stated to E, concerning 
the same service, that two men were on the left side of the church and 
one woman on the right. 
The Crrcumstances.—In some of the German churches of Ontario 
and other parts of America the custom has prevailed of seating the men 
on the right and the women on the left, and yet in sight of each other, 
the respective sides being separated only by a central aisle or low board 
partion. The custom is now observed with varying degrees of strict- 
ness, and the congregation in question is in the first stages of departure 
from the rule. B was an English visitor from other parts who reported 
the general division of men from women, as a novelty, to C a friend to 
whom the custom was also strange. D was a member of the denomina- 
tion, jealous of the observance of the old custom, and he reported the 
exceptions to a fellow member, E, who holds similar views. 
In Case 1 the discrepancy was due to a difference of stand-point 
only in those making the respective statements; in Case 2 to a difference 
of stand-point only in those to whom the statements were made; while 
in Case 3 the difference of stand-point existed in both those who made 
the statements and those to whom the statements were made. In the 
23 additional cases enumerated in the succeeding section upon the 
harmonization of discrepancy it will be found upon examination that 
the difference of stand-point is confined to those making the respective 
statements in Cases 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 25 and 26, a 
total, including the illustrative Case 1, of fifteen cases; the difference of 
stand-point is confined to those to whom the statements were made in 
Cases 8, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, a total, including the illustrative Case 2, 
of eight cases; and the difference of stand-point extends both to the 
makers of the statements and those to whom the statements were made 
in Cases 13 and 24, a total, including the illustrative Case 3, of three 
cases. In Case 13 the same person made both of the discrepant state- 
ments, but the discrepancy was occasioned both by a change in his own 
geographical location and by a corresponding difference in the geographi- 
cal location of those to whom his respective statements were made. 
See. II., 1911. 10. 
