education should not be seen as a necessary qualification for ministry.

In his dealings with others during his apprenticeship, he gives the impression of an earnest, reserved, scrupulously honest, kind, and resolute character. Of his honesty and resoluteness he recalls that he was so fond of the Biblically pregnant word verily that "it was a common saying among people that knew me, 'if George says 'Verily' there is no altering him.'" He also recalls times of bullying and mockery from other less sensitive youths, but that "I never wronged