Even virtue seemed to him second-rate and perilous.

He was not satisfied with abstention from sin, or with the change from slum to model lodging-house.

He held that no man is safe, no man is at the top of his being, no man is fully conscious of life's tremendous greatness until the heart is definitely and rejoicingly given to God.

He was like St.Augustine, like Coleridge, and all the supreme saints of the world in this insistence upon the necessity for a cleansed heart and a will devoted to the glory of God; he was different from them all in believing that this message must be shouted, dinned, trumpeted, and drummed into the ears of the world before mankind can awaken to its truth.
"He made a tremendous demand.

Towards the end of his life he sometimes wondered, very sadly and pitifully, whether he had not asked too much of his followers.