Peter Van Hoosen was a result of Dutch Calvinism, and Dutch industry and thrift; also, of a belief in the Day of Judgment. The first motives were inherited tendencies, carefully educated; the last one, a conscious principle, going down to the depths of his nature and sharply dividing whatever was just and right from whatever was false and wrong. People whose religion was merely religiosity thought he took himself too seriously; but if they had a house to build, they wanted this man--who worked in the great Task-master's eye--to lay its foundation and raise its walls. So that, as a builder in stone, Peter Van Hoosen had a wide local celebrity. He was a strong, loose-limbed man, with a swarth…
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