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WHAT HENRY'S FATHER THOUGHT AND DID. 21
CHAPTER IV.
WHAT HENRY'S FATHER THOUGHT AND DID.
Now Mr. Williams, Henry's father, thought there
was not a little inconsistency in all this. He
believed
that from the very day on which Christ
had said,
" Go ye into all the world, and preach
the Gospel to every creature," it had been the
duty of every living human being to make this
great work of spreading that Gospel, which is
"good-will to men," to the ends of the earth,
his main business. He believed this work of
converting the world belonged to the minister
and to the missionary ;
but that it also belonged
to the common people, and that they were as