Then, when he had the power to live a more individual life of enjoyment and effort, it began to be known little by little that these two had committed that sin against society so hard to forgive, the sin of having their own creed and their own thoughts and their own ways.
Toyner was not a preacher.

It was not in him to try to change the ideas of those who were doing well with what ideas they had.

All that he desired was to live so that it might be known that his God was the God of the whole wide round of human activity, a God who blessed the just and the unjust.

Toyner desired to be constantly blessing both the bad and the good with the blessing of love and home which had been given to him.

It was inevitable that to carry out such an idea a man must live through many mistakes and much failure.