'I shall be glad when you are out of this,' he said, 'and in your pulpit, and well through your first sermon.' 'You may as well say inducted into my fat living, while you are about it.' 'Ah, well--don't think lightly of the Church.

There's a fine work for any man of energy in the Church, as you'll find,' he said fervidly.
'Torrents of infidelity to be stemmed, new views of old subjects to be expounded, truths in spirit to be substituted for truths in the letter.

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' He lapsed into reverie with the vision of his career, persuading himself that it was ardour for Christianity which spurred him on, and not pride of place.