I feel that the barrier which you fancy is now between us is unworthy of you." "What?
Do you mean to say that you think that my detestation--my--my horror of your sneers at the Bible, which I believe to be the Word of God--of the contempt you have heaped upon the Church which I believe to be God's agent on earth for the salvation of men's souls--do you think that my detestation of these is a mere girlish fancy ?" "I don't think that, Phyllis.

What I think is, that if you had ever loved me you would be ready to stand by my side now--to be guided by me in a matter which I have made the study of my life." "In such matters as these--the value or the worthlessness of the Bible; the value or the worthlessness of the Church--I require no guide, Mr.
Holland.

I do not need to go to a priest to ask if it is wrong to steal, to covet another's goods, to honor my father----Oh, I cannot discuss what is so very obvious.

The Bible I regard as precious; you think that you are in a position to edit it as if it were an ordinary book.

The Church I regard as the Temple of God upon the earth; you think that it exists only to be sneered at?
and yet you talk of fanciful barriers between us!" "I consider it the greatest privilege of a man on earth to be a minister of the Church of Christ." "Why, then, do you take every opportunity of pointing to it as the greatest enemy to Christianity ?" "The Church of to-day represents some results of the great Reformation.
That Reformation was due to the intelligence of those men who perceived that it had become the enemy to freedom; the enemy to the development of thought; the enemy to the aspirations of a great nation.