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Mr.
Brown's successor was the Reverend James Smith, and he was a different kind of man.
He condemned openly Mr.
Brown's policy of compromise and accommodation.
He saw things as black and white.
And black was evil.
He saw the world as a battlefield in which the children of light were locked in mortal conflict with the sons of darkness.
He spoke in his sermons about sheep and goats and about wheat and tares.
He believed in slaying the prophets of Baal.
Mr.
Smith was greatly distressed by the ignorance which many of his flock showed even in such things as the Trinity and the Sacraments.
It only showed that they were seeds sown on a rocky soil.
Mr.
Brown had thought of nothing but numbers.
He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds.
Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness.
Narrow is the way and few the number.
To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamouring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence.
Our Lord used the whip only once in His life -- to drive the crowd away from His church.
Within a few weeks of his arrival in Umuofia Mr.