The trouble with Mr.
Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever.

He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling.

But he'll get there sometime all right, and then he'll laugh at himself." "Mr.Howard was a Methodist to begin with," said Miss Cornelia, as if she thought he had not far to go from that to heresy.
"Do you know, Cornelia," said Captain Jim gravely, "I've often thought that if I wasn't a Presbyterian I'd be a Methodist." "Oh, well," conceded Miss Cornelia, "if you weren't a Presbyterian it wouldn't matter much what you were.

Speaking of heresy, reminds me, doctor--I've brought back that book you lent me--that Natural Law in the Spiritual World--I didn't read more'n a third of it.

I can read sense, and I can read nonsense, but that book is neither the one nor the other." "It IS considered rather heretical in some quarters," admitted Gilbert, "but I told you that before you took it, Miss Cornelia." "Oh, I wouldn't have minded its being heretical.