Don't be afraid of his treating a question of temporal ethics after the fashion of our worldly preachers.

He is dogmatically and furiously descanting on the Immaculate Conception, on fasting in Lent, on avoiding meat of a Friday, on the doctrine of the Trinity, on the special nature of hell-fire.
"Bethink you, my brethren, that if terrestrial fire, the fire created by God for your daily wants and your general use, can cause you such acute pain at the least contact with your flesh, how much more fierce and terrible must be that flame of hell-fire which ever devours without consuming those who ...

etc.

etc." I spare you the rest.
Our sacred orators for the most part confine themselves to preaching on such subjects as fidelity, to wives; probity, to men; obedience, to children.

They descend to a level with a lay congregation, and endeavour to sow, each according to his powers, a little virtue on earth.