as possible, but would not come out squarely and lie in the matter by
contradicting the accounts. And, further, the points which I had brought
to the governor's notice were, without doubt, unsatisfactory to the
warden. Then, also, my fitting up the prisoners as they left. He perhaps
desired a man for the place, who might wish it so much as to be willing
to pass on with doing but little of what I was attempting.

For months I supposed these the great motives which prompted that
removal. But the next year I learned of another and perhaps greater than
either of these. A man, retiring from prison, said to me, "Chaplain, how
amused we would feel sometimes, last year, when you were preaching, at
the appearance of the warden, to see him turn pale, and then red, and
hitch on his seat. We understood it." Another, usually present, not a
prisoner, said also that he had noticed the same thing.

At the time in question, I was treating upon the moral code from Sabbath
to Sabbath, and would, in one discourse, take up lying, and point out as
clearly as I could its influence upon the one practicing it, and upon
society in general; then, perhaps, stealing, or swindling and thus on.
In these efforts, I was intent on discharging my duty to the prisoners,
on leading them from those sins, having nothing to do in the matter with
the warden as to any of his steps in life. If personal applications were
made, I was not responsible for that. I arranged for no such purpose.

But when the man, on his release, made the remark given, the idea
flashed in my mind that here was a stirring motive to efforts for
getting rid of me, with the hope of obtaining one who might be willing,
on coming to certain sins, to let the plow of truth turn out, and not go
straight through.

Whether that running to the Governor and that stirring him up so
greatly, was prompted by one or another of the above reasons, or all
combined, or something else, still, I never ascertained. Had charges
been preferred against me openly and squarely, I could have met them
face to face, known what was what, and shown their falsity. But as
things were, I was left in the dark as to how to proceed, and to what
conclusions I should come as to the motives prompting to the struggle to
my disadvantage.

31. _Chaplain's change of course and the question as to who should
conduct the prison correspondence._ After this hearing, I decided to
change my course in two respects, the one about