You can't run a church that way, can you ?" His trustees had done their best to meet the difficulty.

They had offered Dr.McTeague a two-years' vacation to go and see the Holy Land.
He refused; he said he could picture it.

They reduced his salary by fifty per cent; he never noticed it.

They offered him an assistant; but he shook his head, saying that he didn't know where he could find a man to do just the work that he was doing.

Meantime he mooned about among the trees concocting a mixture of St.Paul with Hegel, three parts to one, for his Sunday sermon, and one part to three for his Monday lecture.
No doubt it was his dual function that was to blame for his failure.
And this, perhaps, was the fault of Dr.Boomer, the president of the university.