That was a terrible grief, I suppose.' The King was silent for a few paces; then he asked-- 'And was the world much the better ?' 'Beau sire,' replied Milo, 'not very much.

But that was not God's fault; for it had, and still has, the chance of being the better for it.' 'And do you dare, Milo,' said the King, turning him a stern face, 'set my horrible offence beside the Divine Sacrifice ?' 'Not so, my lord King,' said Milo at large; 'but I draw this distinction.

You are not so guilty as you suppose; for in this world the father maketh the son, both in the way of nature and of precept.

In heaven it is otherwise.

There the Son was from the beginning, co-eternal with the Father, begotten but not made.