He has tried all that he knows (for oh, we have discussed it endlessly, uncle Archie!),--argument, prayer, love, tenderness, and now--sorrow." The rector was sitting very straight in his chair, his plump hands gripping the arms of it, and his lips compressed with anger, while he struggled for patience to hear this preposterous story through.
"He makes me suffer," Helen continued, "that I may be saved.

And indeed I don't see how he can do anything else.

If a man believes his wife will be damned for all eternity unless she accepts certain doctrines, I should think he would move heaven and earth to make her accept them.

And John does believe that.

In denying reprobation, I deny revelation, he says, and also the Atonement, upon which salvation depends.