No more is required; the bishop lets them off easy." "Will the Lord let them off easy ?" said my father.

"Christianity admits of no such temporizing.

The early Christians might have saved their lives by burning a handful of incense before the Roman Emperor's statue; but they did not hold it a mere form.

And the Romanists admit in principle what they dissent from in practice; for they almost deify those early martyrs for their constancy to the truth, and yet would martyr us for doing the very same thing." "Well, I don't mean them to martyr me," said La Croissette, "I've an elastic creed, I!--it stretches or collapses like an easy stocking." "Beware, beware, my friend, of fancying a creed like that of any worth at all." "Sir, we all have our weak points and our strong ones.

I'm no polemic, I!--I prefer meddling with things that will not bring me into trouble.
There was a factory burnt down last night--" "Ah!" groaned my father.
"Some say both the partners were burnt; others that one of them is at a distance.