I knew (as most medical students get to know, until they know better) some scientific objections to Christianity, and I put them forward.

He clearly and powerfully met them.

I said at last, laughingly: "Why, you ought to take holy orders." "That is what I am going to do," he said very seriously, "when I get to England.

I am resigning the navy." At that instant there flashed through my mind Mrs.Falchion's words: "You are going to be that--you!" Then he explained to me that he had been studying for two years, and expected to go up for deacon's orders soon after his return to England.
I cannot say that I was greatly surprised, for I had known a few, and had heard of many, men who had exchanged the navy for the Church.

It struck me, however, that Galt Roscoe appeared to view the matter from a stand-point not professional; the more so, that he expressed his determination to go to the newest part of a new country, to do the pioneer work of the Church.