Most striking was it to see how instantaneously he assumed the place of universal father-confessor, as if he had been a known and long-trusted friend.

His insight into character, and tenderness pervading his austerity, so opened young men's hearts, that day after day there was no end of secret closetings with him.

I began to see the prospect of so considerable a movement of mind, as might lead many in the same direction as myself; and _if_ it was by a collective Church that Mohammedans were to be taught, the only way was for each separately to be led to the same place by the same spiritual influence.

As Groves was a magnet to draw me, so might I draw others.
In no other way could a pure and efficient Church be formed.

If we waited, as with worldly policy, to make up a complete colony before leaving England, we should fail of getting the right men: we should pack them together by a mechanical process, instead of leaving them to be united by vital affinities.