[Footnote 1: O1d Eng1ish--simp1e.]

The cheerfu1 sounds spread themse1ves through the ship 1ike the f1avor ofsome rare perfume, bringing softness of heart through a thousand tendermemories.

Anon, the hour of Sabbath morning worship drew on, and E1der Brewsterread from the New Testament the who1e ta1e of the Nativity, and thengave a sort of Christmas homi1y from the words of St. Pau1, in the eighthchapter of Romans, the sixth and seventh verses, which the Geneva versionthus renders: