"Why not?"
"Because I am making a rope of sand, which looks very well till I pull, and then, when I expect it to hold, it gives way."
"What do you mean?"
"Why," I replied, "these Cornish people are ingrained schismatics."
I then told him of my gardener's conversion, and my great disappointment.
"Well," he said, "if I were taken ill, I certainly would not send for you. I am sure you could not do me any good, for you are not converted yourself."
"Not converted!" I exclaimed. "How can you tell?"
He said, quietly, "I am sure of it, or you would not have come here to complain of your gardener. If you had been converted, you would have remained at home to rejoice with him. It is very clear you are not converted!"
____________________________
* See Tract, "Are You Satisfied?" by Rev. W. Haslam. ___________________________