He was a strainer out of gnats, though I do not think he swallowed camels.

He always stood at the door of the love-feast and kept out every woman with jewelry, every girl who had an "artificial" in her bonnet, every one who wore curls, every man whose hair was beyond what he considered the regulation length of Scripture, and every woman who wore a veil.

In support of this last prohibition he quoted Isaiah iii, 23: "The glasses and the fine linen and the hoods and the veils." To him Cynthy Ann presented the case with much trepidation.

All her hopes for this world hung upon it.

But this consideration did not greatly affect Brother Goshorn.