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How, then, would these be treated by the Church when once her power had been finally consolidated?
How was she to reconcile the gentleness of the Christian spirit with the dogmatism of the Christian claim?
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He recalled one or two hints that Father Jervis had let drop, and he was conscious of a touch of fear.
He woke up to externals again at the sound of a sentence or two from the monk.
"I beg your pardon," he said.