And it shall be soon,--I know it shall be soon.

The Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save.

He has revealed to me the one last way of showing you the truth, and He will lighten your eyes.

Yet, oh, my love, my wife, help me to be strong for you,--my Helen, help me in these days or weeks of waiting.
"'There is one mercy vouchsafed to me who am all unworthy of the least favor: it is the knowledge of your understanding it all,--the bitter distress, the absolute conviction, and the necessity which follows it.
You see what the temptation was to fly with you to some spot where your unbelief could not injure any one, and there work and pray for your salvation; leaving these souls, which my neglect of you and so of them, has allowed to drift deep into sin.

You will understand that, believing (oh, knowing, Helen, knowing) that salvation depends upon a right conception of truth, I have no choice but to force you by any means to save your soul.