He was a backslider, in my grandfather's eyes.

The tales of battle, plunder, and murder seemed to have taken the latter back to his own fighting days; and he was rather inclined to consider the generals as lukewarm, than to join in the general indignation at their atrocious conduct.
"Even the sufferings of the Protestants did not seem to affect him.

The Lord's work, he said, cannot be carried on without victims.

It horrified me to hear him talk.

If this was the religion of our fathers, I was fast coming to the conclusion that it was little better than no religion at all.
"I think my father and mother saw it in the same light, and the breach between them and my grandfather daily widened.