Yet I didn't come to reproach you for that.

You have your reasons for doing as you did, no doubt.

But what I did come to do, preacher, was to warn you that there was a creepin' evil in the church; and we need strong doctrine now, if we ain't before.

And I came the quicker to tell you, sir, because it's fastened on my own household.

Yes, on my own child!" "Your own child ?" John said.