The church-wardens told him that, ever since he came, the curate had done nothing but set the congregation by the ears; and that he could not fail to receive as a weighty charge.

But they told him also that some of the principal dissenters declared him to be a fountain of life in the place--and that seemed to him to involve the worst accusation of all.

For, without going so far as to hold, or even say without meaning it, that dissenters ought to be burned, Mr.Bevis regarded it as one of the first of merits, that a man should be a _good churchman_..