Phyllis of Philistia

e stood beside her with something of a proprietary air. He relinquished her hand with a little look of surpris

, Mr. Hollan

lland' already

re musical expression. People (they were mostly women) said

ly could she make? She only

himself, not too close to her. He did not wish her to fancy that he was desiro

"A shock, after you h

srepresented by the world-the critics-the clerics-what you will-but you--You had not rea

one notice of it-

to me solely as the evidence of

n in his face as well, but she did not

large extracts from the book. I did not come to my conclusion from what the newspa

did not look for justice at t

our book now,

ou, Phyllis-not 'Mr. Hol

was that I had not written to you

y that, I beg of you. You c

nderstood b

quickly that it might alm

a book as you wrote and not get such a letter from me. The Bible-Ruth-and you a clergyman-rea

urch. He was not in the habit of doing that-it was his curates who did it. He watched her as she stood at a wind

rose and ca

truth of our religion-is dependent upon the acceptance as good of such persons as our very religion itself enables us to pronounce evil. My aim was to show that our faith is not built upon such a foundation of impurity-of imper

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nomers were prohibited from calculating; the geologists were forbidden to unearth the mysteries of their science, lest the discovery of the truth should be detrimental to the faith. They believed that the truth was opposed to the faith. Warning after warning the Church received that the two were one; that man would only accept the truth, whether it came from the lips of the churchman or from the investigations of science. Grudgingly the Church became tolerant of the seekers after truth-men who were not greatly concerned in the pres

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, self-sacrifice-that it abhors the cheat and the sensualist. It is necessary to proclaim to the world our abhorrence of the cult whose highest development was the Pharisee. The aim of the religion of Christ is to produce the perfect man, and to root out the Pharisee. When the Church ceases to connive at falsehood and sensualism; when it openly professes its abhorrence of the religion of the Hebrews; then, and then only, will it become the power in the earth which the exponent of Christianity should become. Humanity had been crying out for the religion of humanity, that is, Christianity, for centuries, but the Church tells it that true religion is an amalgamation of the loveliness of Christianity and the barbarity of Judaism-an impossible amalgamation, and one which millions of poor souls have perished in a vain attempt to accomplish. Humanity wants Christ, and Christ only, and that the Church has hitherto refused to give; hence the millions of thinking men and women, believers in the religion of

not but admit that, in the phrase of Philistia he had spoken in perfect taste. He had not alluded definitely to the boldness of Ruth or to the calorific course accep

He might be right in all that he had said, but she had freed herself from him. He might be destined to

face with him wh

s a long

int gleam of trium

ut her hand to him, and with her