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tinct object at the top of the spire. In the hazy at- 

 mosphere I imagined it any one of many improbable 

 things ; as the light grew stronger, however, I made it 

 out to be a reproduction of the human hand, neces- 

 sarily constructed upon an enlarged scale, with the fore- 

 finger and thumb pointing upward in the direction of 

 where heaven is popularly supposed to be located. My 

 curiosity was excited to know how and why this object 

 came to be placed away up there. 



After thinking it over I decided that when the 

 church was built the trustees concluded to have " some- 

 thing different," and picked out a well-known design 

 in advertising that appropriately reminds the congre- 

 gation that " there is hope." 



The First Methodist Church of Fredericton is now 

 popularly known as the " thumb-up church." So long 

 live the power of virile and intelligent advertising and 

 the First Methodist Church of Fredericton, which was 

 bound to have "something different," for verily she 

 has gotten it. 



