518 RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT-I 



had founded a &quot;church without a bishop and a state 

 without a king&quot;; Dr. Wainwright insisted that there 

 could be no church without a bishop ; and on this the two 

 champions joined issue. Armed with the weapons fur 

 nished me in the church catechism, in sundry sermons, 

 and in pious reading, I took up the cudgels, and the battles 

 then waged were many and severe. 



One little outgrowth of my religious intolerance was 

 quickly nipped in the bud. As I was returning home one 

 evening with a group of scampish boys, one of them 

 pointed out the &quot;Jew store, &quot; in those days a new 

 thing, and reminded us that the proprietor worshiped 

 on Saturday and, doubtless, committed other abomina 

 tions. At this, with one accord, we did what we could to 

 mete out the Old Testament punishment for blasphemy 

 we threw stones at his door. My father, hearing of this, 

 dealt with me sharply and shortly, and taught me most 

 effectually to leave dealing with the Jewish religion to 

 the Almighty. I have never since been tempted to join 

 in any anti-Semitic movement whatever. 



Meanwhile Mr. Gregory or, as he afterward became, 

 Dr. Gregory was fighting the battles of the church in 

 many ways, and some of his sermons made a great im 

 pression upon me. Of these one was entitled i The Church 

 not a Sect, the text being, For as to this sect, we know 

 that it is everywhere spoken against. Another sermon 

 showed, especially, his uncompromising spirit and took 

 yet stronger hold upon me ; it was given on an occasion 

 when Presbyterians, Methodists, and Baptists were drawn 

 in large numbers to his church ; but, disdaining all efforts 

 to propitiate them, he took as his subject &quot;The Sin of 

 Korah,&quot; who set himself up against the regularly or 

 dained priesthood, and was, with all his adherents, fear 

 fully punished. The conclusion was easily drawn by all 

 the &quot;dissenters&quot; present. On another occasion of the 

 same sort, when his church was filled with people from 

 other congregations, he took as his subject the story of 

 Naaman the Syrian, his text being, &quot;Are not Abana and 



