He refused to acknowledge any service or rite of the Church as _essential_ to the salvation of men.

If the Lord's Supper were essential the Army would have it; but the Army had proved that no other power was necessary to the working of miracles in the souls of men beyond the direct mercy of God acting on the centre of true penitence.

He was the uncompromising protagonist of conversion, and his father came to agree with him.
Neither the old General nor his inspired wife, admirable as revivalists, had the true fire of fanaticism in their blood.

They were too warm-hearted.

That strange unearthly fire burns only to its whitest heat, perhaps, in veins which are cold and minds which are hard.