Surely there are other churches where you could preach as you want to, and still not be in such constant danger." It required all of Philip's wisdom and love and consciousness of his immediate duty to answer his wife's appeal and say no to it.

It was one of the severest struggles he ever had.

There was to be taken into the account not only his own safety, but that of his wife as well.

For, think what he would, he could not shake off the feeling that a man so cowardly as to resort to the assassination of a man would not be over particular even if it should chance to be a woman.

Philip was man enough to be entirely unshaken by anonymous threats.