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Book, page 81 / 151 "To you?" "Certainly he did. And I don't like it at all. That's not the way to preach the gospel. This running off with one side of a story, and, taking all for granted, holding a man up to public odium, is not, as I conceive, following in the footsteps of our Great Master." "I'm sorry you should have taken up such an impression," was replied to this. "I cannot believe that Mr. C--really intended to hold you up to public odium. He couldn't have meant to designate you." "He must have meant me. Don't I know?" So another and another objection was made to Mr. C--on the same ground; and before the week was out, it was pretty widely known that the new preacher had indulged in reprehensible personalities. Some said this was an error in the preacher; others, that he was highly blamable; while others affirmed that there must be some mistake about the matter. On the following Sunday, Mr. Grant was absent from his usual place in the church. It would do him no good to sit under the ministry of Mr. C--. During the week that followed, two of the official members called upon the jeweller to make inquiries about the alleged personalities. Grant was, by this time, pretty sore on the subject, and when allusion was made to it, he gave his opinion of the preacher in no very choice language. "In what did this personality consist?" asked one of the visitors. "It's hardly necessary to ask that question," replied Grant. "It is for me. No one, whom I have yet seen, has been able to give me any information on the subject." "If you ask Mr. C--, he will enlighten you." "I have already done so."
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