He has been so kind to me, and understands me so much better than I thought anybody did.

He is so different from what I thought; he makes religion so perfectly simple, it seems as if everybody would agree with him, if they could only hear him talk." "Greatly interested in the souls of his people, is n't he ?" "Too much, almost, I am afraid.

He says he has been too hard in his sermons sometimes, but it was for fear he should not impress his hearers enough." "Don't you think he worries himself about the souls of young women rather more than for those of old ones, Myrtle ?" There was something in the tone of this question that helped its slightly sarcastic expression.

Myrtle's jealousy for her minister's sincerity was roused.
"How can you ask that, Mr.Gridley?
I am sure I wish you or anybody could have heard him talk as I have.

There is no age in souls, he says; and I am sure that it would do anybody good to hear him, old or young." "No age in souls,--no age in souls.