Some of those people he had learned to love; many of them, he felt sure, loved him.

His success, his popularity, the growth of the organization and the praise which had come to him because of it, all these had meant, and still meant, very much to him.

No wonder he paused, but the pause was momentary.
"My church," he went on, "is my work and I like it.

I believe I've done some good here and I hope to do more.

But no church shall say whom I shall marry.