She was stone-deaf.
For the first year or more of his ministry an Auld Licht minister was a mouse among cats.

Both in the pulpit and out of it they watched for unsound doctrine, and when he strayed they took him by the neck.

Mr.
Dishart, however, had been brought up in the true way, and seldom gave his people a chance.

In time, it may be said, they grew despondent, and settled in their uncomfortable pews with all suspicion of lurking heresy allayed.

It was only on such Sabbaths as Mr.Dishart changed pulpits with another minister that they cocked their ears and leant forward eagerly to snap the preacher up.
Mr.Dishart had his trials.