uplifted brow, made no difference: he
believed!--and prayed God to help
any lingering unbelief that might be
holding him back from deeper knowledges.
To the end of his days he was
Edward Irving's follower; and when
he went back to America it was as a
missionary of the new sect, that
called itself by the sounding title
of The Catholic Apostolic Church.
In Lower Ripple he preached to any
who would listen to him the doctrine
of the new Pentecost. At first curiosity
brought him hearers; his story of
the Voice, dramatic and mysterious,
was listened to in doubting silence;
then disapproved of--so hotly disapproved
of that he was sessioned and read
out of Church.

But in those days in western Pennsylvania,
mere living was too engrossing a matter
for much thought of "tongues" and
"voices"; it was easier, when a man
talked of dreams and visions, not to
argue with him, but to say that he
was "crazy." So by and by Henry
Roberts's heresy was forgotten and his
religion merely smiled at. Certainly
it struck no roots outside his own