In a few moments he was absorbed in his sermon and everything else was forgotten in the pleasure of his delivery.
No one had ever accused Henry Maxwell of being a dull preacher.

On the contrary, he had often been charged with being sensational; not in what he had said so much as in his way of saying it.

But the First Church people liked that.

It gave their preacher and their parish a pleasant distinction that was agreeable.
It was also true that the pastor of the First Church loved to preach.

He seldom exchanged.