He, too, had stopped to consider many doctrines which purported to be true; more than that, he had recognized in each the modicum of truth which it possessed.

But the falsity with which this was overloaded was powerful enough to repel him, in spite of the truth he knew to be contained in it.

He carried in himself the touchstone to which all that was akin to it beyond him responded of necessity.

The Light which lights every man who comes into the world had not only never been darkened in him by sinful courses, but it seemed to burn with a crystal clearness which threw up into hideous and repellant proportions all that was offensive to it.

Many voices had called him from without, but he had refused obedience unto any.