To Toyner sin was an abhorred thing.

It consisted always, yet only, in failure to tread in the foot-prints of God, as far as it was given to each man to see God's way--in obedience to the lower motive in any moment of the perpetual choice of life.

For himself, his life was impassioned with the belief that it was wicked to live as if God was not the God of the whole of what we may know.
I, who have seen it, tell you that the atmosphere of that house was always sweet.

There were many young girls who came to it often, and laughed and danced with men who were not righteous, and the girls lived more holy lives than before.

I would say this:--do not let any one imitate the method of life which Toyner and his wife practised unless by prayer he can obtain the power of the unseen holiness to work upon the flux of circumstance; yet do not let those fear to imitate it who have learned the secret of prayer.