But Browett knew, as an evolutionist, that the eagle has a divine right to the lamb if it can come safely off with it; as a Christian, that one carries out the will of God as indubitably in preserving the established order of prince and subject, of noble and plebeian, as in giving of his abundance to relieve the necessitous--or in endowing universities which should teach the perpetual sacredness of the established order of things in Church and State.
In short, he derived comfort from both poles of his belief--one the God of Moses, a somewhat emotional god, not entirely uncarnal--the other the god of Spencer, an unemotional and unimaginative god of Law.
It followed that he was much taken with a preacher who could answer so appositely to the needs of his soul as did this impressive young man in a chance sermon of unstudied eloquence.
There were social meetings in which Browett dispassionately confirmed these early impressions gained under the spell of a matchless oratory, and in due time there followed an invitation to the young rector of St.
Anne's of Edom to preach at the Church of St.Antipas, which was Browett's city church..