I have come to speak my own mind, not that of any other.

But I refer to what those around you think and say, because it is to them that your duties are due.

You owe it to those around you to live a godly, cleanly life;--as you owe it also, in a much higher way, to your Father who is in heaven.

I now make bold to ask you whether you are doing your best to lead such a life as that ?" And then he remained silent, waiting for an answer.

He was a singular man; so humble and meek, so unutterably inefficient and awkward in the ordinary intercourse of life, but so bold and enterprising, almost eloquent, on the one subject which was the work of his mind! As he sat there, he looked into his companion's face from out his sunken grey eyes with a gaze which made his victim quail.