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of every morning in the year, but many masses 

 are said before that hour. 



One Sunday, during the celebration of high 

 mass, when this church was densely crowded, 

 Miss Edmonstone had to witness a most ap- 

 palling accident, very near to the place where 

 she was kneeling. A man who was in the habit 

 of lighting the uppermost candles which orna- 

 ment the lofty cornice, had been ordered to 

 discontinue his services on account of a dizzi- 

 ness which had recently attacked him. Not- 

 withstanding this injunction, he had the temerity 

 to ascend that very morning, and down he 

 came into the body of the church, mortally 

 wounded himself, and mortally wounding a 

 poor old woman, who was in fervent prayer 

 upon her knees below. They both died in the 

 course of the week. 



I would often in the morning, whilst waiting 

 for the opening of the church doors, ask some 

 of the good souls assembled there, what it was 

 that made the Jesuits such universal favourites 

 with the people. I invariably recewed for 

 answer that, although the other religious orders 

 were very good and attentive to them, yet the 

 fervour, and charity, and attendance, of these 



