It is hardly too much to say that he had never encountered a dissenting opinion on this point.
His boyhood had been spent in those bitter days when social, political, and blood prejudices were fused at white heat in the public crucible together.

When he went to the Church Seminary, it was a matter of course that every member of the faculty was a Republican, and that every one of his classmates had come from a Republican household.

When, later on, he entered the ministry, the rule was still incredulous of exceptions.

One might as well have looked in the Nedahma Conference for a divergence of opinion on the Trinity as for a difference in political conviction.
Indeed, even among the laity, Theron could not feel sure that he had ever known a Democrat; that is, at all closely.

He understood very little about politics, it is true.