The preaching was always of the simplest kind, abstract questions being avoided and the concrete in those wonderful Bible tales, dressed in modern and in western garb, set forth.

Bill and Hi were more than ever his friends and champions, and the latter was heard exultantly to exclaim to Bruce: "He ain't much to look at as a parson, but he's a-ketchin' his second wind, and 'fore long you won't see him for dust.".