When Toyner was well he came home again.

His mind was still animated with the conception of God as suffering in the human struggle, but as absolute Lord of that struggle, and the consequent belief that nothing but obedience to the lower motive can be called evil.

The new view of truth his vision had given him had become too really a part of his mind to be overthrown.

It was no doubt a growth from the long years of desultory browsing upon popular science and the one year that had been so entirely devoted to the story of the gospel and to prayer.

He could not doubt his new creed; but no sooner had he left the hospital walls than that burden came upon him of which the greatest stress is this, that in trying to fit new light to common use we are apt to lose the clearer vision of the light itself.
In Toyner's former religious experience he had been much upheld by the knowledge that he was walking in step with a vast army of Christians.
Now he no longer believed himself in the ways of exclusive thought and practices in which the best men he knew were walking.