You can get near to such a man.

All the young people in his congregation like him because he doesn't expect them to come up to his official level, but is ever ready to come down to them and enter into their feelings and tastes." "He likes a good glass of wine," said the first speaker.
"Of course he does.

Have you any objection ?" "Shall I tell you what came into my thought just now ?" "Yes." "What St.Paul said about eating meat." "Oh!" "'If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.' And again: 'Take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to them that are weak.'" "How does that apply to Mr.Elliott ?" "There are more than one or two young men in the group that surrounds him who need a better example than he is now setting.

They need repression in the matter of wine-drinking, not encouragement--a good example of abstinence in their minister, and not enticement to drink through his exhibition of liberty.

Do you think that I, church member though I am not, could stand as Mr.Elliott is now standing, glass in hand, gayly talking to young Ellis Whitford, who rarely goes to a party without--poor weak young man!--drinking too much, and so leading him on in the way of destruction instead of seeking in eager haste to draw him back?
No sir! It is no light thing, as I regard it, to put a stumbling-block in another's way or to lead the weak or unwary into temptation." "Perhaps you are right about it," was the answer, "and I must confess that, though not a temperance man myself, I never feel quite comfortable about it when I see clergymen taking wine freely at public dinners and private parties.