He doesn't teach that it's unnecessary to obey the ten commandments, or beat his wife, nor is he drunken.

He's got the sense to see that all that sort of thing wouldn't make a big man of him.

It's merely a revised form of Christianity, with a few silly additions, that he claims to be the prophet of." Mrs.Croom began to weep bitterly.
The elder Croom asked a pertinent question.

"Why do you wilfully distress your mother, Ephraim ?" "Because, sir, I love my mother too well to sit silent and let her think that injustice can glorify God." It was a family jar.
Finney was a man of about forty years of age; his eyes under over-reaching brows were bright and penetrating; his face was shaven, but his mouth had an expression of peculiar strength and gentleness.

He looked keenly at the son of the house, who was held to be irreligious.
And then he looked upon Susannah, whose beauty and frivolity had not escaped his keen observation.