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Yeast: A Problem

CHAPTER VIII: WHITHER?
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I will go to him.' But as Lancelot rose to find him, there was put into his hand a letter, which kept him at home a while longer--none other, in fact, than the long-expected answer from Luke.
'WELL, MY DEAR COUSIN--You may possibly have some logical ground from which to deny Popery, if you deny all other religions with it; but how those who hold any received form of Christianity whatsoever can fairly side with you against Rome, I cannot see.

I am sure I have been sent to Rome by them, not drawn thither by Jesuits.

Not merely by their defects and inconsistencies; not merely because they go on taunting us, and shrieking at us with the cry that we ought to go to Rome, till we at last, wearied out, take them at their word, and do at their bidding the thing we used to shrink from with terror--not this merely but the very doctrines we hold in common with them, have sent me to Rome.

For would these men have known of them if Rome had not been?
The Trinity--the Atonement--the Inspiration of Scripture .-- A future state--that point on which the present generation, without a smattering of psychological science, without even the old belief in apparitions, dogmatises so narrowly and arrogantly--what would they have known of them but for Rome?
And she says there are three realms in the future state.

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