He loved the things of which he spoke, and he had the power of presenting to others his reason for loving them.

Not one in five hundred men inexperienced in such work could have held the ears of the class as he did for the first two or three evenings.

It was impossible for them to mistake his spirit--ardent, disinterested, aspiring--impossible not to feel something of a respondent impulse.

That familiarity should diminish the effect of his speech was only to be anticipated.

He was preaching a religion, but one that could find no acceptance as such with eight out of nine who heard him.