When banished from the house he had still striven to achieve the conversion of other sisters by his letters, and was now absolutely an alien from his father's heart and care.

But of this he never complained.

It was a part of the plan of his life that he should suffer for his faith.

Had he been able to change his creed without incurring persecution, worldly degradation, and poverty, his own conversion would not have been to him comfortable and satisfactory as it was.

He considered that his father, as a Protestant,--and in his mind Protestant and heathen were all the same,--had been right to quarrel with him.