It is, in fact, too presbyterian to be any longer connected with any other body whatsoever.

It seceded some forty years ago from the original body to which it belonged, and later on, with three other churches, it seceded from the group of seceding congregations.

Still later it fell into a difference with the three other churches on the question of eternal punishment, the word "eternal" not appearing to the elders of St.
Osoph's to designate a sufficiently long period.

The dispute ended in a secession which left the church of St.Osoph practically isolated in a world of sin whose approaching fate it neither denied nor deplored.
In one respect the rival churches of Plutoria Avenue had had a similar history.

Each of them had moved up by successive stages from the lower and poorer parts of the city.