This part of the delusion always
fills me with such unspeakable disgust that I have never liked to
seek additional light from any of the older men and women who
might revel in giving it. That my mother did not sympathize with
my father's going out to preach Cochrane's gospel through the
country, this I know, and she was so truly religious, so burning
with zeal, that had she fully believed in my father's mission she
would have spurred him on, instead of endeavoring to detain him."
"You know the retribution that overtook Cochrane at last," wrote
Ivory again, when he had shown the man's early victories and his
enormous influence. "There began to be indignant protests against
his doctrines by lawyers and doctors, as well as by ministers;
not from all sides however; for remember, in extenuation of my
father's and my mother's espousal of this strange belief, that
many of the strongest and wisest men, as well as the purest and
finest women in York county came under this man's spell for a
time and believed in him implicitly, some of them even unto the
end.
"Finally there was Cochrane's arrest and examination, the order
for him to appear at the Supreme Court, his failure to do so, his
recapture and trial, and his sentence of four years imprisonment
on several counts, in all of which he was proved guilty.
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