HOW A BROTHER WAS DIFFERENT In contrast with this regrettable performance of Bernal's, which, alas! bore internal evidence of being a type of many, was the flawless career of Allan, the dutiful and earnest.

Not only did he complete his course at the General Theological Seminary with great honour, but he was ordained into the Episcopal ministry under circumstances entirely auspicious.

Aunt Bell confided to Nancy that his superior presence quite dwarfed the bishop who ordained him.
His ordination sermon, moreover, which his grandfather had been persuaded into journeying to hear, was held by many to be a triumph of pulpit oratory no less than an able yet not unpoetic handling of his text, which was from John--"The Truth shall make you free." Truth, he declared, was the crowning glory in the diadem of man's attributes, and a subject fraught with vital interest to every thinking man.

The essential nature of man being gregarious, how important that the leader of men should hold Truth to be like a diamond, made only the brighter by friction.

The world is and ever has been illiberal.