She could make it popular if she pleased, and she could make it profitable, too.

This, in a measure, accounted for the unlimited admiration Mrs.Chapman had for this great progressive clergyman.

His great progressive religion was just exactly the thing needed in Nyack.

He must next attack the Dominie, and drive him out of his pulpit, for it would not do to have men preaching in an unknown tongue at this enlightened day.
In less than two months from the time this teacher of great progressive ideas landed at Nyack, he had not only got the town by the ears, but so divided his flock that it was now composed almost exclusively of women.
The men stayed at home and nursed their wrath.

And it was good for them that they did, for the women had things all their own way generally, and Warren Holbrook, ill-favored and formed, was their idol.