He says himself he did not require any credentials, for they were his credentials, read and known of every one; he had made good men of them out of bad ones, and that was proof enough whose apostle he was." "Well," said Frank half sadly, "I might say a great deal, of course, on the other side of the question, but I prefer hearing what you laymen think about it all." "Will you be angry if I tell you honestly ?" "Did you ever find me angry at anything you said ?" "No.

I will do you the justice to say that.

Well, what we laymen say is this.

If the parsons have the authority of which they boast, why don't they use it?
If they have commission to make bad people good, they must have power too; for He whose commission they claim, is not likely, I should suppose, to set a man to do what he cannot do." "And we can do it, if people would but submit to us.

It all comes round again to the same point." "So it does.