Why has he no power?
Why is he so much disliked in the parish and neighborhood?
I am sure it is not because he has small abilities, and makes puns, and says cut-and-dried things.

How many excellent clergymen who do the same are beloved?
Is it because he deals with every one as he deals with me?
What dreadful things he thinks of me.

I don't wonder he is anxious about me.

What unworthy motives of wilful blindness and arrogance he is attributing to the Nonconformists! Oh, James, James! will you never see that it is disbelief in the sincerity of the religion of others, because it is not in the same narrow form as your own, which makes all your zeal and earnestness of none effect! You think the opposition you meet with everywhere is the opposition of evil to good, of indifference to piety.

When will you learn that it is the good in your hearers which opposes you, the love of God in them which is offended by your representation of Him ?" * * * * * Hugh's eyes were fixed on the same pillar as Mr.Tristram's, but if he had been aware of that fact he would have chosen another pillar.